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In the Washington Post, retired Army MG Robert Scales says U.S. military leaders don’t support strikes on Syria.

Syriadeeply.org offers its roundup of the best think tank reports on Syria.

“Strategic messaging” …

Here’s the Congressional Research Service’s Sept. 3 take on Syria. (The map on p.34 shows the ranges of various rockets and missiles if launched by Hezbollah or “Gaza-based militants.”)

Two pieces take …

Writing at Foreign Affairs, Audrey Kurth Cronin explores what it mean that drones, a new linchpin of U.S. power projection, “have been virtually useless in the last two conflicts that the United …

Syria’s the main event today, but there’s still plenty of other things to fix. Here’s Rachel Kleinfeld on three other things that could use some attention.

And while we’re mulling the Middle …

At the risk of immodesty, we say a happy 150th birthday to AFJ, which published its first issue (as the Army and Navy Journal) on Aug. 29, 1863. Here’s a look back …

Sparks flew when Army, Marine, and SOCOM leaders met to talk about “strategic landpower,” reports Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. of Breaking Defense. For U.S. jointness, said Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, the director …

Even as the drums of war seem to be leading President Obama toward airstrikes in Syria, a counterbeat of experts and observers say we’ve tried that before.  Brookings’ Daniel Byman argues that …

Here’s another plea to stop misusing words that have perfectly good and useful definitions: Christopher Mewett’s response to Rear Adm. Michael Smith’s article in Proceedings about the rebalance to the Pacific. Writing …

The USAF plans to add some 60 satellite launches to its 2018-30 schedule, one of the few military areas marked for growth in coming decades, writes Foreign Policy’s John Reed.

Writing at …

Marking the 60th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, the Korea Herald looks at two U.S. concepts — Air-Sea Battle and Strategic Landpower — and their implications for the peninsular.

Barry Watts …