SecNav sees green water ahead
The USS Makin Island’s hybrid-electric propulsion system can run on auxiliary propulsion at low speeds and on gas turbines at higher speeds. (Navy)
SecNav Ray Mabus says the recent spike in oil …
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1979: Press corps rates the SECDEFs
From the archives: August 1979
The Reporters Who Bring You the Defense News and How They Rate The Men Who Make It
Editor’s note: In the summer of 1979, AFJ asked the …
Read more ›U.S. imports Pakistan strategy to Yemen
Writing at Foreign Policy, Gregory D. Johnsen says the U.S. efforts to drone-kill AQAP leaders in Yemen is a poor substitute for a winning strategy.
Micah Zenko argues at a Council on …
Read more ›Climate change and war
Brad Plumer, writing at washingtonpost.com, rounds up various reactions to last week’s report in Science that sought to quantify the influence of climate on human conflict: “At a basic level, it’s easy …
Read more ›1945: Atomic Attacks on Japan
From the archives: August 4, 1945
U.S. Unleashes Bombs on 2 Jap Cities
The atomic bomb, product of three years of intensive scientific research, and an expenditure of approximately $2,000,000,000, has been …
Read more ›Could Air-Sea Battle cause a war?
David Gompert and Terrence Kelly warn in Foreign Policy that the Pentagon’s new concept for defeating anti-access/area-denial efforts may actually hasten such conflicts: “But while the proponents of Air-Sea Battle are careful …
Read more ›1945: War-end twist for Tokyo Rose
From AFJ’s archives: August 11, 1945
Tokyo Rose Cited
Tokyo Rose, Radio Tokyo’s flaxen voiced air commentator whose propaganda has been beamed and listened to with amusement by American forces in the …
Read more ›1945: Treating PTSD during WWII
From the archives: August 11, 1945
Battle Fatigue Cure
A special receiving company is rehabilitating more than 200 soldiers a month, all of them hospital cases and most of them suffering from …
Read more ›1945: ‘A hard subsistence peace’ for Germany
From the archives: August 4, 1945
Service News and Gossip
The Potsdam conference decided, as its communique discloses, that Germany is to have a hard subsistence peace. The Reich will be reduced …
Read more ›1945: ‘Tropic Lightning’ and more division names
From the archives: August 4, 1945
Combat Division Nicknames
A list of popular nicknames of combat divisions of the U.S. Army was compiled by Army Ground Forces headquarters in Washington. The list …
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