SFC Arnold S. Scales of Richmond, Va., serves steak at the 43rd Transportation Truck Company, 8th U.S. Army, near Uijongbu, Korea, on 18 June 1951. (Photo: Army Quartermaster Museum)

From the archive: …

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 …

From the archive: September 2, 1899

Editor’s note: In May 1899, delegates to the Hague Convention voted 22-2 to ban soft-point expanding bullets from military use. This prohibition on Dum-Dums, named for …

How to meet the complex challenges of the next five years, and beyond

By Joseph J. Collins

It is a tough time for Defense Department strategists and programmers. DoD will likely take …

U.S. and Europe face a growing number of potential threats

By Ben Sheppard

In April, North Korea claimed it could attack the U.S. with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. That same month, the Defense …

A UH-1 Huey makes a delivery in Vietnam. (Army)

From the archives: August 1982

(Editor’s note: In mid-1982, AFJ hosted a running debate about the combat effectiveness of past and future helicopters …

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 …