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The case for maintaining an all-nuclear submarine fleet

Defense analysts periodically propose a mix of nuclear and conventionally powered submarines to increase U.S. undersea force structure. They argue that conventional submarines (SSKs) …

Toward a new maturity in civil-military relations

What if U.S. troops were used — and acquiesced in being used — to conduct extrajudicial targeted assassinations inside the sovereign territory of another country …

To the soldiers who are wringing needless acronyms and jargon from the upcoming edition of the Army’s Field Manual 1-02, the service’s dictionary of operational terms and graphics.

“There is no reason …

The Navy’s submarine fleet is a key component of America’s ability to project power overseas. In an era of tighter budgets, however, some observers have advocated supplementing the all-nuclear submarine fleet with …

The Lisbon Summit set dates for the Afghanistan handover: July begins the transition process; December 2014 is the stated end date.

With a bluntness that became a trademark during his tenure as …

At the time NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) stood up in November 2009, the security transition that began this July was not discussed. Instead, the focus was simply on reversing the negative growth …

Mountstuart Elphinstone, a British East India Company official, declared in 1809 about Afghanistan, “[a visitor] would find it difficult to comprehend how a nation could subsist in such disorder; and pity those …

The war in Afghanistan is at an inflection point. The U.S., its coalition partners and the Afghan government have decided that, by December 2014, the Afghan armed forces will take the lead …

To the Pentagon for its cyber defense strategy, which falls into the same trap where countless previous cyber policy documents have fallen, describing broad initiatives while avoiding specific solutions.

The Defense Department’s …

It’s time a woman joined the Joint Chiefs of Staff

With the announcement that Adm. Jon Greenert, the vice chief of naval operations, will move up to become the chief of naval …