Articles by: Bradley Peniston

This piece by Robert A. Manning is a bit longer than the ones we usually link to, and more generally about global problem-solving than military action. Yet “U.S. Planning in a Post-Western …

Frank Hoffman, broadening his recent consideration of naval lessons from World War II, sets out five questions on future war in the Pacific. Here’s the first: “What set of capabilities are best …

Asia Pivot Watch: The Atlantic wants to know: “Are We Pivoting to Africa Rather Than Asia?” Meanwhile, Reuters writes, “As Obama’s Asia ‘pivot’ falters, China steps into the gap.”

Mark Stout calls …

From the archive: October 6, 1962

Shipbuilding Program Must Be Doubled

Navy shipbuilding programs must be doubled if the U.S. Fleet is to maintain present strength and carry out assigned roles in …

The daily papers publish a dispatch from San Francisco which states, on the authority of some anonymous correspondent at Honolulu, that Commander [William T.] Truxton, of the sloop-of-war Jamestown, requested Consul [Thomas] …

Proceedings has a thoughtful response to “Back to Reality: Why Land Power Trumps in the National Rebalance Toward Asia” (AFJ, May 2013).

At the new Just Security site, David Luban argues that …

The GOP fight to delay Obamacare has sapped efforts to eliminate sequester cuts. (The Hill)

On the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu, Benjamin Runkle draws up a list of lessons …

At a conference on “assessing war” — that is, determining whether you’re winning or losing — Mark Stout found himself longing not for the hard drive with 47 terabytes of data on …

DART to the House of Representatives for adding to the budgetary chaos that is hindering the U.S. military. In 1986, then-AFJ editor Benjamin Schemmer looked into the possibility of suing Congress for …

On Sept. 29, veteran foreign-affairs reporter Robin Wright offered a vision for remapping the Middle East to alleviate tension. The redrawn map, she mused in the New York Times, could be “a …