Articles by: Bradley Peniston

Fairy tale ending

To President George W. Bush for stretching the truth on the circumstances in which the U.S. went to war in Iraq. In farewell speeches in Washington and at West Point, Bush talked …

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0 commentsJanuary 1, 2009Features

Fighting words

Imprecise language = inept policies

If our troops shot as wildly as our politicians and bureaucrats fire off words, we’d never win a single firefight. The inaccurate terminology tossed about by presidents …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

The right defense budget

The next president must finish the 2010 defense budget, set priorities for 2011 and beyond, and conduct the next Quadrennial Defense Review — all urgent and critical tasks.

Mackenzie Eaglen sets America’s …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

In this issue

America is at war, new flashpoints around the world threaten our security almost daily, and force modernization has lurched to a point that almost all major military recapitalization programs are critical requirements. …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

Flighty facts

To attackers of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. With yawn-inducing, inside-the-Beltway predictability, those who sought to kill the F-22 have now turned their focus on to the Air Force’s next (and …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

Our shrinking, more costly force

It is common knowledge that the Pentagon is spending more in inflation-adjusted dollars today than at any point since the end of World War II.

The $635 billion appropriated in fiscal 2007 …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

From our online discussion boards

Army Maj. David Bigelow responds to continuing debate on Barry Fagin and Lt. Col. James Parco’s article “A Question of Faith,” January AFJ

(https://armedforcesjournal.com/2008/03/3409959)

I fight for the ideal of individual freedom …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

Incomplete security

Complacency and bureaucracy threaten DHS’ progress

Since its creation almost six years ago, the Department of Homeland Security has accomplished much in its efforts to protect the nation, but serious challenges lie …

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Analysis: Taking the lead

Allow interagency planning groups to set national security objectives

The U.S. government has a mature foreign policy formulation process but lacks procedures that ensure unity of effort in support of national objectives. …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features

Zombies at war

Botnets can do more than attack enemy networks

A botnet is a geographically distributed group of computers, individually called zombies, which mindlessly perform instructions provided by a single computer called the command-control. …

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0 commentsOctober 1, 2008Features