How to confront the evolving al-Qaida threat

It’s time to stop looking at al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula solely through a counterterrorism lens. AQAP, having realized that it requires the support of …

To the Obama administration for counting on Congress to help fix things.

The Defense Department’s $527 billion request for fiscal 2014 is quite close to the projection made last year (not including …

Why land power trumps in the national rebalance toward Asia

By Maj. Robert Chamberlain

The American Army is an organization in search of a strategic purpose. American conventional involvement in the war …

How Pakistan impedes progress in Afghanistan

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, …

For its recent efforts in mine warfare.

Navy interest in mine warfare historically follows a kind of sine-wave pattern, as Defense News naval correspondent Christopher P. Cavas puts it. In the 1980s …

For the sequester.

Having failed to come to a budget agreement, Congress tried to design something that would be too stupid to happen, and apparently it wasn’t stupid enough. DoD then failed …

In the perennial faceoff between Israel and various armed organizations, the distance between cyclical violence and full-on war can be measured by how well the players adhere to unwritten, yet clearly understood, …

For approving the new Distinguished Warfare Medal

During his last month as defense secretary. The award, meant to honor UAV operators and cyber warriors for extraordinary achievement, is set in precedence ahead …

The United States has had great success fighting conventional wars as a third party. In World Wars I and II, as well as the Korean War, the U.S. fought with coalitions, defeated …

Army attack aviation must embrace irregular warfare

Classic COIN theory, as reiterated in the 2006 Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency field manual, teaches us that force must be employed much differently when …