View from the FOB
The perks and pitfalls of forward operating bases
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have introduced a large, new vocabulary of acronyms and abbreviations into the American experience of war: GWOT, GSAVE, …
Read more ›The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have introduced a large, new vocabulary of acronyms and abbreviations into the American experience of war: GWOT, GSAVE, …
Read more ›Any publication with insurgents and terrorists in its title is certain to attract a certain amount of attention these days, but a 2003 book …
Read more ›“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.”
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has …
Read more ›If warlords cared about etymological niceties, they might be the first to decry the mutation of their evocative title into a bland bureacratic “ism.” These guys aren’t political theorists; they’re the commanders …
Read more ›At 10 o’clock in the morning Dec. 2, 1805, a few miles west of the Austrian town of Austerlitz, the main weight of the Austro-Russian forces …
Read more ›After a decade-long decline in U.S. military shipbuilding budgets, from $11.5 billion in 1991 outlays to …
Read more ›On a Tuesday afternoon in January, Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, sat in his spacious but Spartan E-ring office in the Pentagon, contemplating …
Read more ›It was often said during the Cold War that the Soviet Union had a hard time understanding the United States. There was a …
Read more ›The courtship of India was begun by President Clinton, but the Bush Administration has brought what is potentially the most important strategic partnership of the coming century to the point of consummation. …
Read more ›I’ve known Stephen Cambone for a number of years. We’ve disagreed about a lot of issues. I’ve heard people in the Pentagon say a lot of nasty things about Steve. I’ve also …
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