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It’s not the EBO concept that’s wrong, but how it’s been applied

What happened to effects-based operations? Joint Forces Command chief Gen. James Mattis provided his perspective on the subject in an …

TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA for ordering the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and all overseas CIA detention centers. Without question, this is the right thing to do for U.S. moral …

The Bush administration discredited crucial strategic concepts

The quickest way to discredit a good idea is to execute it incompetently. Human nature will blame the idea along with those who botched it. …

AIP vs. nuclear submarines: No contest

Even as the world waits with great anticipation to see if the new diplomatic approach of the Obama administration lessens tensions throughout the world, many governments …

Narcotics traffickers threaten Mexico and U.S.

Largely invisible to most Americans, just to the south, the security situation is worsening as a result of an intense conflict between the Mexican government and …

The U.S. has possessed the most powerful economy in the world for so long that no one can remember a time when America was not No. 1. The armed forces have been …

TO THE NAVY for not knowing what it wants. Trying to decipher where the Navy is headed with its new ship programs is increasingly a voyage into unclear waters. Last year, the …

TO THE AIR FORCE for its fanciful notion of turning part of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., into a beach resort hotel. (This is not a joke.) Eglin and Air Force Materiel …

A plan to ease the Guard and Reserve’s move to an operational force

Since the 9/11 attacks, the Army reserve components (RC) deployed approximately 540,000 soldiers in support of the war on …

TO THE OBAMA DEFENSE TEAM for indicating early on its intent to instill disci¬pline in the weapons pro¬curement process. In its public debut, the team suggested it would move away from supplemental …