1957: Can women fire missiles?
Nike Hercules surface-to-air missiles at Fort Hancock, N.J.
From the archive: September 21, 1957
WAC Tested for Missile Billets
The Army has launched a test to find out if women soldiers can …
Read more ›Nike Hercules surface-to-air missiles at Fort Hancock, N.J.
From the archive: September 21, 1957
The Army has launched a test to find out if women soldiers can …
Read more ›Days after Marine Commandant Jim Amos argued that his Corps should be sized at 174,000 Marines, Aaron Haubert begs to differ. The Corps could do its vital jobs with 120,000 to 150,000 …
Read more ›At Information Dissemination, Galhran sounds the alarm bell on rifts in the Navy’s leadership: “It is shocking how much of a wasted year this has been for the Navy to make a …
Read more ›Lt. Gen. (ret.) David Deptula, the USAF’s first deputy chief of staff for ISR and newly the dean of the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute, headed a …
Read more ›The Stimson Center’s Michael Krepon introduces a collection of essays about ways the U.S. and China will cooperate and collide in space. (Defense One)
Here’s a quick piece by Frank Hoffman: the …
Read more ›Strategy isn’t a lost art — we’ve just forgotten that it was never a science, argues Antulio Echevarria at the Strategic Studies Institute. There’s a response from @zenpundit here. (Via @aelkus)
Why …
Read more ›Writing in Defense News, Christine Fox, a former director of the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office, defends the SCMR review, says real savings lie in BRAC rounds and compensation reform, …
Read more ›Navy corpsmen carry a wounded man from a U.S. Marine Corps HO3S-1 evacuation helicopter to a hospital in Korea on Oct. 3, 1950.
From the archive: Sept. 16, 1950
Lt. …
Read more ›From the archive: September 12, 1964
Editor’s note: No one knew it at the time, but the Aluminaut — built for research — would in 1966 be used to recover a hydrogen …
Read more ›Are we moving into a “post-American” world? Oxford prof and Hoover fellow Timothy Garton Ash writes in the L.A. Times, “Maybe after some years spent putting its own house in order, it …
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