Editor’s Note: Someone else’s problem
(May 2013)
Cybersecurity is tough, and not just because it’s technical.
Cybersecurity is tough, and not just because it’s technical.
Rebuilding defense around SOF
(May 2013)
Last year, Norway pulled its special-operations units from their various armed services and used them to create Norwegian Special Operations Command. The Ministry of Defence gave NORSOCOM...
By Lt. Col. Thomas Macias
Last year, Norway pulled its special-operations units from their various armed services and used them to create Norwegian Special Operations Command. The Ministry of Defence gave NORSOCOM...
By Lt. Col. Thomas Macias
In Yemen, an adversary adapts
(May 2013)
It’s time to stop looking at al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula solely through a counterterrorism lens. AQAP, having realized that it requires the support of local populations to pursue...
By Daniel R. Green
It’s time to stop looking at al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula solely through a counterterrorism lens. AQAP, having realized that it requires the support of local populations to pursue...
By Daniel R. Green
Malice in Wonderstan
(May 2013)
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been...
By Col. Robert M. Cassidy
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been...
By Col. Robert M. Cassidy
Print when ready, Gridley
(May 2013)
Three-dimensional printing, a fast-moving technology that is still in its infancy, promises to upend the way we think about supply chains, sea basing and even maritime strategy. But it also...
By Lt. Cmdr. Michael Llenza
Three-dimensional printing, a fast-moving technology that is still in its infancy, promises to upend the way we think about supply chains, sea basing and even maritime strategy. But it also...
By Lt. Cmdr. Michael Llenza
Crisis and opportunity
(April 2013)
At this writing, sequestration is in effect, thanks to a Congress that, in the words of Slate’s John Dickerson, couldn’t even design a sword of Damocles right.
At this writing, sequestration is in effect, thanks to a Congress that, in the words of Slate’s John Dickerson, couldn’t even design a sword of Damocles right.
Let’s not try that again: Why you can’t win someone else’s counterinsurgency
(April 2013)
The United States has had great success fighting conventional wars as a third party. In World Wars I and II, as well as the Korean War, the U.S. fought with coalitions, defeated enemies that...
By Billy Birdzell
The United States has had great success fighting conventional wars as a third party. In World Wars I and II, as well as the Korean War, the U.S. fought with coalitions, defeated enemies that...
By Billy Birdzell
Go smaller: Time for the Navy to get serious about the littorals
(April 2013)
The Navy has hung its quest for credible littoral warfare capabilities upon its planned fleet of 52 littoral combat ships, which — according to all the publicly discussed concepts...
By Milan Vego
The Navy has hung its quest for credible littoral warfare capabilities upon its planned fleet of 52 littoral combat ships, which — according to all the publicly discussed concepts...
By Milan Vego
Beyond formality: A better way to negotiate in Afghanistan
(April 2013)
As U.S. and Afghan officials negotiate the myriad details of their pledged strategic partnership, they will be pushed by war-weariness and political and economic pressures to settle for...
By Maj. Aram Donigian, Jeff Weiss and Davood Moradian
As U.S. and Afghan officials negotiate the myriad details of their pledged strategic partnership, they will be pushed by war-weariness and political and economic pressures to settle for...
By Maj. Aram Donigian, Jeff Weiss and Davood Moradian
COIN in the air
(April 2013)
Classic COIN theory, as reiterated in the 2006 Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency field manual, teaches us that force must be employed much differently when the battle is for political...
By Maj. Lee Robinson
Classic COIN theory, as reiterated in the 2006 Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency field manual, teaches us that force must be employed much differently when the battle is for political...
By Maj. Lee Robinson
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