EMCON redux
To the U.S. Navy for resurrecting the lost art of EMCON.
April was a big month in naval electromagnetic-spectrum news. First, the Navy released video of a shipboard laser shooting down a …
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Rebuilding defense around SOF
Norway’s smart move to put special operations front and center
Last year, Norway pulled its special-operations units from their various armed services and used them to create Norwegian Special Operations Command. The …
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From strategy to teamwork, the U.S. must do better
With America’s war in Iraq officially over and the one in Afghanistan drawing to a close, U.S. strategists must resist the temptation to …
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3-D printing will streamline the Navy’s supply chain — and much more
Lt. Cmdr. Michael Llenza
Three-dimensional printing, a fast-moving technology that is still in its infancy, promises to upend the way …
Read more ›Anti-access problems
Maj. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie clearly understands the anti-access problem, but then advances totally unconvincing solutions to it [“Naval Power & Assured Access,” January-February].
A “whole-of-government response”? How exactly will the State Department …
Read more ›Merge Guard and Reserve
Our reserve forces consist primarily of the National Guard and the reserve. The two separate organizations were created at different times to meet separate and distinct needs of the nation. As the …
Read more ›Beyond formality: A better way to negotiate in Afghanistan
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 Band-Aid approaches to complex …
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A better strategy for security force assistance in the Pacific
The Army, with its long history of security force assistance to Pacific Rim nations and a wealth of new knowledge born of …
Read more ›Crisis and opportunity
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.
The irony, of course, is …
Read more ›Go smaller: Time for the Navy to get serious about the littorals
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 — are to …
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