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Robert Scales notes that if the six soldiers and Marines who have received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Afghanistan had deployed with some relatively simple and inexpensive gear, …
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Good on Pacific Air Forces for practicing no-GPS, no-radio operations. It’s a method championed by Marine Gen. James Mattis and in AFJ. The idea, as Air Combat Command’s Gen. Mike Hostage put …
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DART to the DoD budget-cutters, no doubt well-intentioned, who appear to have trained their red pens on the Office of Net Assessment.
Some say ONA, founded in 1973 and still run by …
Read more ›Dan Drezner has a great post bringing together much of the world’s reaction to the GOP-engineered shutdown/debt-ceiling fight. We are, he argues, about to see “whether incipient U.S. rivals will start making …
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MQ-1B Predator (USAF photo)
Remember President Obama’s “We don’t do pinpricks” speech? Lionel Beehner begs to differ. And, he says, “countries across the globe are beginning to mirror the United States by …
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Harrison
CSBA’s Todd Harrison takes a crack at quantifying what we all know in “Shutdown Could Cost DoD Billions of Dollars” (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense News) “It’s not that it’s immediate. It won’t …
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From the archive: October 13, 1962
A small, high-capacity, generalpurpose digital computer for use in a wide range of rugged military applications was introduced by General Precision’s …
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From the archive: October 1870
Editor’s note: These talks, held at Fort Laramie in the first week of October 1870, followed the 1868 treaty that ended the two-year Red Cloud’s War.
Secretary …
Read more ›John Amble discerns two oft-competing strands of COIN in U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, and says one is much more effective than the other. (War On The Rocks)
Obama’s ASD SOLIC nominee says the …
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Book excerpt: “F.I.R.E.”
April 29 2014
Two Cheers for the QDR
April 06 2014
Afghanistan or Talibanistan?
April 02 2014
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