Articles by: Bradley Peniston

It’s not too late to get useful low-end ships

The Navy is moving apace to stabilize the Littoral Combat Ship program and integrate it into a new fleet design. Upon reading LCS-focused …

TO THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES for ginning up new legislation to restrict the flow of information among intelligence agencies.

In the wake of the New York Times’ June 14 article describing how …

Rather than seeking one ‘true’ meaning, explore the views of friends and foes alike

The United States government still has not figured out how to educate its employees about Islam.

In recent …

USAF combat support leaders must embrace a new TTP approach

While the Air Force does a remarkable job of capturing and codifying lessons within the flying community, the lack of a well-defined …

U.S. justifications for targeted killings are neither coherent nor sustainable

Over the past two years, prominent officials in the Obama administration — most of them high-ranking lawyers — have offered public defenses …

Five rules for a sensible approach to acquisition

It probably goes without saying that the defense acquisition community wants to build “stuff that works good.” For that matter, we generally want our …

For persuasive presentations, try this alternative approach

We love to hate PowerPoint, but we keep using it. The criticisms of Microsoft’s ubiquitous presentation tool are serious: that it weakens the quality of …

TO GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY for pulling the plug on a Joint Forces Staff College course that taught “Islam had already declared war on the West” and, as reported by Wired’s Danger Room, …

Although filled with passion and zeal based on their experience in Iraq, Navy Lts. Deak C. Childress and John G. Taylor miscategorized the Combined Information Data Network Exchange [“A better way to …

TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS for attempting to shut down the Navy’s biofuel efforts. By forbidding DoD to make or buy any alternative fuel that costs more than a “traditional” fossil fuel, the House …