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To Mitt Romney for trotting out that hoary canard: a goal of setting a floor of 4 percent of GDP for defense.

A serious approach to national defense is based upon analysis …

Assuring the advantage in air, space and cyberspace

Assured cyberspace is a foundation for global vigilance, global reach and global power. Essential to all Air Force missions, cyberspace is a domain in …

How to bring intelligence to the tactical edge

In Iraq, U.S. forces who recovered computers used by al-Qaida consistently found Google Maps information on them. Insurgents were using the same databases as …

Facing new realities after a decade of war

The Army finds itself in a period of profound organizational, operational and fiscal transition. How shall it process the campaigns of the past decade, …

To Maj. Gen. Tony Thomas, senior commander for Special Operations forces in Afghanistan, for temporarily halting the training of local forces amid the recent spate of green-on-blue violence.

It can’t have been …

The Army is shrinking, its mission set expanding — it’s the very incarnation of “do more with less.”

Yet this was inevitable after a decade of war and soaring defense budgets, and …

To the air force warfare center for thinking differently — at last — about what unmanned aerial vehicles might bring to the fight. The pilot-centric culture of the air service, which for …

Why the anti-gay policy vanished without ill effects

It has now been a year since the long-standing U.S. policy banning homosexuals from openly serving in the U.S. military known as “don’t ask, …

How Air-Sea Battle undermines our grand strategy

In the intervening year since I expressed my concerns regarding Air-Sea Battle (ASB) in these pages, a cottage industry has formed to assure citizens, friends …

Future-proofing the Air Force’s next bomber

Purely manned or purely unmanned aircraft possess various inherent advantages and limitations. A manned aircraft can be used in contested environments where command-and-control is limited, autonomy …