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 …

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 …

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 …

The U.S. Air Force has a new word for transmitting: offboarding, the transmission of the vast quantities of sensor data scooped up by F-35 and F-22 jets to other aircraft, warships and …

What has changed and what remains constant?

Since the end of the Cold War, an internal struggle has taken place between U.S. military “transformationalists” who hyped the wonders of the Information Age …

Consider all options

The odds of Iraq surviving as a constitutional democracy with its present borders intact are down to 50/50. While it’s still too soon to give up on the effort …

What Democratic gains will mean for the military

Election Day is around the corner, and partisans are looking forward to — or dreading — the prospect that Democrats will take control of …

Expansion plans leave many in Army Special Forces uneasy

he impending expansion of Army special operations forces laid out in this year’s Quadrennial Defense Review is spreading waves of unease throughout the …

for further fanning the fire over whether to quit Iraq. The panel, led by former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, let it be known publicly in October that it was considering …

Success in Afghanistan depends on success in Pakistan

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away — that is, the 2000 presidential race — candidate George W. Bush could not recall the …