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To Defense secretary Leon Panetta for establishing a baseline cybersecurity doctrine for the U.S. military and for simultaneously pressing Congress to do its part to shape national policy on the issue.

Panetta’s …

We have let our fears obscure how terrorists really use the Internet

About 31,300. That is roughly the number of magazine and journal articles written so far that discuss the phenomenon of …

Simple fixes can put them on the right financial road

It is military leaders’ responsibility to take care of their troops, and that includes setting them up for success when they leave. …

Gutting its UAV plan, Air Force sets a course for irrelevance

In early 2011, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that the Air Force, which had bowed to pressure to fly more unmanned …

It must be free to truly challenge the organization

Red teaming is a white light that takes on various characteristics as it shines through the prism of different organizations. Some teams focus …

To the Obama administration and senior military leadership for trying to have it two ways. For years, they have put SEALs and their secret methods in the limelight when it served their …

How to make the combatant commands more effective

Every two years, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reviews the Unified Command Plan that defines the roles of the combatant commands. …

Why a smaller Army needs mobile protected firepower

As the U.S. leaves two wars behind and adjusts its military to face an uncertain future, some question the need for the Army to …

The future of U.S. counterterrorism

The United States is emerging from a brutal decade of ground warfare in the Middle East and South Asia with powerful new tools to wage counterinsurgency warfare …

The U.S. must prepare for an era of unprecedented change

The war colleges are given to teaching that the development of strategy is simply the aligning of resources to reach national goals …