Archive for October, 2013

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 …

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 from Google and Yahoo. …

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 the world stage is that we cannot predict …

Dan Drezner tries to discern a grand-strategy approach to the Middle East, and lays out a few things he hopes the administration and DoD strategists are taking into consideration. (Foreign Policy)

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Tom Ricks says the U.S. military is not looking rigorously at several big themes from the past 12 years of war, including: whether generals were properly held accountable for war zone performance, …

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.

Saudis Now Biggest U.S.

From the archive: October 26, 1957

Dual-Purpose Artillery Missiles

The Armed Forces are on the threshold of a new era in artillery firepower. Dual-purpose missiles with atomic warheads make possible the use …

CSBA’s Todd Harrison crunched the numbers and found that, if history is any guide, the budget levels prescribed under sequestration are likely a ceiling, not a floor. That suggests, he said at …

The Army is moving to “extreme tiered readiness,” with only small portions of the force ready to fight, as it struggles to train and equip soldiers amid the ongoing fiscal crisis, Chief …