Underqualified undersecretary
DART to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for nominating Jo Ann Rooney to be his undersecretary.
Perhaps there have been Navy undersecretaries with less naval experience than Ms. Rooney, who is less than …
Read more ›DART to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for nominating Jo Ann Rooney to be his undersecretary.
Perhaps there have been Navy undersecretaries with less naval experience than Ms. Rooney, who is less than …
Read more ›NSA slide (Washington Post)
Yesterday was the day “global spying allegations” went “insane,” according to Foreign Policy. The biggest news was the Washington Post blockbuster that NSA is hoovering up user data …
Read more ›The last combat brigade to leave Iraq. (Army)
Gordon Adams says the U.S. is no longer the undisputed director of the global play: “The most disconcerting part of this accelerating movement on …
Read more ›FSA rebels cleaning their AK-47s in Aleppo, Syria. (VOA News)
Dan Drezner tries to discern a grand-strategy approach to the Middle East, and lays out a few things he hopes the administration …
Read more ›PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Pfc. Michael W. Daley Jr.
(right) and Pfc. Travis B. Woolwine, both Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division …
From the archive: October 1979
Editor’s note: The “change in Iranian government” mentioned below was, of course, the Ruhollah Khomeini-led revolution that ejected the U.S.-backed Shah Reza Pahlavi.
From the archive: October 26, 1957
The Armed Forces are on the threshold of a new era in artillery firepower. Dual-purpose missiles with atomic warheads make possible the use …
Read more ›CSBA’s Harrison: Budget proposals on the table ignore BCA caps — and history.
CSBA’s Todd Harrison crunched the numbers and found that, if history is any guide, the budget levels prescribed under …
Read more ›The Army will have to move into an ‘extreme tiered readiness model’ as it struggles to train and equip soldiers amid the ongoing fiscal crisis, the service’s top officer said Chief of …
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