1944: Proposals for a post-war draft
From the archive: December 2, 1944
Editor’s note: “As World War II was coming to an end, the House, on March 28, 1944, established the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy composed …
Read more ›From the archive: December 2, 1944
Editor’s note: “As World War II was coming to an end, the House, on March 28, 1944, established the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy composed …
Read more ›From the archive: December 6, 1941
Editor’s note: The day before Japanese warplanes surprised U.S. defenders at Pearl Harbor, the Army and Navy Journal published its last pre-war issue. Looking back, one …
Read more ›In the wake of Gen. Dempsey’s mention of the “zero option” in Afghanistan, Anthony Cordesman evaluates whether it’s a viable strategic choice. (CSIS)
SecDef Hagel’s plans to cut staff aren’t evenly spread, …
Read more ›Soren Sjogren, a Danish Army officer who has led mixed-gender units in combat, offers a few lessons from the experience. (Carrying The Gun)
CJCS Gen. Martin Dempsey says the U.S. might still …
Read more ›Frank Hoffman calls Peter R. Mansoor’s “Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War,” an “invaluable resource” that reshaped his thinking about the U.S. escalation in …
Read more ›DART to Army Secretary John McHugh for creating a corrosive double standard.
Faced with an angry Congress demanding that military leaders curb the epidemic of sex assaults in the ranks, McHugh has …
Read more ›Gen. Keith Alexander currently wears the hats of director of the National Security Agency, chief of the Central Security Service, and commander of CYBERCOM. (NSA photo)
Over the past …
Read more ›Mark Stout draws together various threads of the recent COIN debate, and urges more. (War On The Rocks)
Just a reminder: “Plans are worthless but planning is everything.” Richard Fontaine puts the …
Read more ›For all the concern over China’s newly declared Air Defense Identification Zone, it’s just the latest in a series of escalations in the battle for the Diayou/Senkaku Islands. Here’s Mark E. Rosen’s …
Read more ›From the archive: December 2, 1944
Editor’s note: The cigarette industry saw a great boom during World War II. Cigs were distributed in troops’ rations and smoking rose on the homefront — …
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