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It’s definitely hard defining all those task orders.

Send nonword nominations to Jack Wittman at jwittma@atpco.com. …

Bloggers react to the SecDef’s departure

For all the invective targeted at Donald Rumsfeld during his final year in office, nobody ever accused him of being a soft touch. And it’s no …

Pitch large, powerful armies against substantially smaller, weaker enemies and the result can be the David vs. Goliath effect.

In his book “Small Wars,” British Army Col. C.E. Callwell warned that a …

For his lecture on the “Meaning of Freedom” at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Moyers’ impressive speech, both thought-provoking and deeply moving, deserves to be read in its entirety …

Iraq and coming out pointing fingers at our Israel-Palestinian policy. According to the report, the U.S. cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict …

The plan of the Bush administration to install democratic, secular, pro-American regimes in the Middle East is fast unraveling. It is a classic example of “blowback,” where your actions ensure the opposite …

The man hired to transform the Pentagon could not change himself

Perhaps no secretary of defense has been better qualified. This was Donald Rumsfeld’s second tour of duty in the Pentagon. He …

It is 10 years since the Greek coalition fought their way on to Troy’s wide beaches — longer than anyone expected — and still both sides persist. Just when one side seems …

When it comes to winning small wars, air power is more than putting steel on target. Air Force strategic thinking continues to be grounded in a theory of strategic attack that fails …

How U.S. strategists lost sight of the purpose of war

For far too long, American military planners and civilian policymakers have imagined future military capabilities through rose-colored glasses. In the 1990s, the …