October 2009 Issue
Hybrid vs. compound war
Over the past two years, the hybrid threat construct has found some traction. It appears in official government reports and has been cited by the defense secretary in articles and speeches....
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
Over the past two years, the hybrid threat construct has found some traction. It appears in official government reports and has been cited by the defense secretary in articles and speeches....
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
Flashpoint: Son of START
Early in his tenure, President Barack Obama outlined a broad nonproliferation agenda in a Prague speech. Obama told the assembled ears, and the world: “The Cold War has disappeared,...
BY PETER BROOKES
Early in his tenure, President Barack Obama outlined a broad nonproliferation agenda in a Prague speech. Obama told the assembled ears, and the world: “The Cold War has disappeared,...
BY PETER BROOKES
Misplaced priorities TO CNN for its upside-down coverage of an IED explosion event in Afghanistan that killed a soldier and seriously wounded a journalist. CNN reported the event this way: “A CBS News...
In harm’s way TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT for its order to rescue a war journalist, a decision that resulted in the deaths of a British soldier and three Afghan civilians. U.K. Defence Secretary Bob...
Photo folly TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for its ham-fisted handling of a picture of a dying Marine in Afghanistan. Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard was mortally injured in an ambush Aug. 14. AP waited almost three...
A jewel to treasure
Professional military education (PME) has played a major role in preparing military institutions for war. Solid basic, intermediate and senior-level PME combined with combat training is an...
BY MILAN VEGO
Professional military education (PME) has played a major role in preparing military institutions for war. Solid basic, intermediate and senior-level PME combined with combat training is an...
BY MILAN VEGO
Return of the Jedi
It’s that time again. About once a decade, the military services attempt to reform how they educate officers. This time, the catalyst is a series of Senate and House hearings on how...
BY MAJ. GEN. ROBERT H. SCALES (RET.)
It’s that time again. About once a decade, the military services attempt to reform how they educate officers. This time, the catalyst is a series of Senate and House hearings on how...
BY MAJ. GEN. ROBERT H. SCALES (RET.)
Industry Pulse: Tanker food fight
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he didn’t want to see a repeat of the corporate food fights that prevailed in the 2006 KC-X tanker competition. For a man who is serving his sixth...
By Scott Hamilton
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he didn’t want to see a repeat of the corporate food fights that prevailed in the 2006 KC-X tanker competition. For a man who is serving his sixth...
By Scott Hamilton
A clear and present danger
As Defense Secretary Robert Gates completes the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), senior officials have indicated he will officially abandon the force planning construct...
BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN and JIM TALENT
As Defense Secretary Robert Gates completes the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), senior officials have indicated he will officially abandon the force planning construct...
BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN and JIM TALENT
In this issue
As the Defense Department and Quadrennial Defense Review planners try to figure out what threats lie beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, the term “hybrid warfare” increasingly surfaces...
As the Defense Department and Quadrennial Defense Review planners try to figure out what threats lie beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, the term “hybrid warfare” increasingly surfaces...
Too few
There’s a Bill Mauldin cartoon from World War II that shows two exhausted, bearded infantrymen slouched over on their feet along a road while one nearby officer asks another:...
BY BOB KILLEBREW
There’s a Bill Mauldin cartoon from World War II that shows two exhausted, bearded infantrymen slouched over on their feet along a road while one nearby officer asks another:...
BY BOB KILLEBREW
From our online discussion board
“The real problem with personnel in the military is not that they simply cost a lot; it is that given a mission, they do not perform it as efficiently as they should. Efficiency is...
“The real problem with personnel in the military is not that they simply cost a lot; it is that given a mission, they do not perform it as efficiently as they should. Efficiency is...
No reason to quit
Gen. George Marshall said it during World War II, but it has been true for over two centuries: “A democracy cannot fight a Seven Years War.” As the pace of the war in Afghanistan...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
Gen. George Marshall said it during World War II, but it has been true for over two centuries: “A democracy cannot fight a Seven Years War.” As the pace of the war in Afghanistan...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
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