Articles by: Bradley Peniston

By T.X. Hammes

As a decision-making aid, PowerPoint is a poor tool

Every year, the services spend millions of dollars teaching our people how to think. We invest in everything from war …

Cyberspace threats demand an international approach

In the summer of 2008, the nation of Georgia was attacked by hackers, presumably from Russia. The media speculated it was the first “cyberwar” because the …

Preparations for next year’s Quadrennial Defense Review collide with a split in thinking over what the post-Iraq war threats will be — insurgencies, conventional or something in between? Unless these differences in …

Don’t close Guantanamo; transform it

By Beltway standards, it was high drama. Fresh from his first rebuff by congressional Democrats over closing the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an embattled President …

TO CONGRESSMAN MIKE ROGERS for trying to stir up a White House-is-soft-on-terrorists scare over detainees in Afghanistan being read their Miranda rights. The Michigan Republican handed a report to the media saying …

AFJ is running its second annual essay contest. Submit an essay of no longer than 1,500 words on a PowerPoint presentation that most affected your career — for good or bad. The …

TO AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ for emphatically ending industry-prompted media speculation that the service wants to buy more F-15s or F-16s to fill the coming “fighter gap.” Schwartz …

Cut off the enemy’s financial resources and he’s paralyzed

Even as the U.S. begins to draw down its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, a host of nonstate adversaries will remain significant threats to …

TO SEN. DANIEL INOUYE for leading an ill-researched and clumsily disguised effort to keep the F-22 in production. The Hawaii Democrat said the Japanese asked him to inquire about an export variant …

Posturing the future force for COIN and conventional warfare

We are in another post-Iraq war debate about how to best posture our military investments for the future. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review …