Will the U.S. get serious about performance-based logistics?

Whatever happened to performance-based logistics? In 2001, the Pentagon declared PBL its preferred approach to maintaining and supporting weapons. The Defense Department still believes …

To President Obama for nominating Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.

As the U.S. moves beyond a decade of furious op tempo and price-is-no-object spending, the American military will need to make best …

To DARPA for putting a new wrinkle in weapons development: crowd-sourcing.

Having achieved more or less spectacular results in the field of autonomous vehicles through its Grand Challenge contests, the research agency …

Weave sleep into your ops plan or give the enemy an advantage

F atigue in war is as old as war itself, and somehow has become an ennobling virtue when endured. Many …

Responding to the proliferation of information-based weapons

High-end cyber weapons and espionage platforms such as Stuxnet and Flame are to cyber power what the Navy SEALs are to the U.S. military — …

If “a ship’s a fool to fight a fort,” as the Nelsonian wisdom had it, what happens when the fort can see and shoot over the horizon? Or when the “fort” becomes …

Why Air Force special operators need acquisition skills

The Air Force’s special operators, having spent a decade honing their skills in far-flung combat zones, must begin to seek expertise in a different …

Lt. Cmdr. David Coghlan’s article, “Redrawing the COCOM map” [October] makes a good case for the realignment of the current combatant command configuration and is worthy of consideration.

History is full of …

To Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, for ordering a formal review to determine “how to better foster a culture of stewardship among our most senior leadership.” The findings were due to the White …

To the Army, for taking years to start sending flight medics to paramedic school.

Twenty-six soldiers have just completed a course that is certain to save lives. They are the first of …