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Budget deal | More might, less cost | AirSea Battle & ADIZ

Gordon Adams on the Murray-Ryan budget deal: “But let’s get real: $498 billion is a pretty good deal in a world where threats to the United States are low, terror attacks are …

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0 commentsDecember 11, 2013Must-Reads

Art of the possible | WOTR picks winners | AirSea Battle must-reads

The Pentagon is taking a hard look at the size of its future force, Defense News reports: DepSecDef Ash Carter is leading a “base force” review, the first since the early 1990s. …

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0 commentsNovember 21, 2013Must-Reads

Better gear, please | How to be a scholar | AFPAK Hands

Better gear, please | How to be a scholar | AFPAK Hands

Robert Scales notes that if the six soldiers and Marines who have received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Afghanistan had deployed with some relatively simple and inexpensive gear, they might …

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0 commentsOctober 18, 2013Latest

It’s all pinpricks | AirSea Battle, defined | From stupid to dangerous

It’s all pinpricks | AirSea Battle, defined | From stupid to dangerous

Remember President Obama’s “We don’t do pinpricks” speech? Lionel Beehner begs to differ. And, he says, “countries across the globe are beginning to mirror the United States by modifying their military doctrines …

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0 commentsOctober 15, 2013Latest

Shutdown costs, estimated | UK military, austerianized | Cyberwar, reframed

Shutdown costs, estimated | UK military, austerianized | Cyberwar, reframed

CSBA’s Todd Harrison takes a crack at quantifying what we all know in “Shutdown Could Cost DoD Billions of Dollars” (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense News) “It’s not that it’s immediate. It won’t cost …

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0 commentsOctober 14, 2013Latest

Back to ‘Back to Reality’ | Redefining just war | Turkey’s Chinese defenses

Proceedings has a thoughtful response to “Back to Reality: Why Land Power Trumps in the National Rebalance Toward Asia” (AFJ, May 2013).

At the new Just Security site, David Luban argues that …

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0 commentsOctober 4, 2013Latest

No-show drones | Syrian hackers | ASB’s main flaw

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 …

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0 commentsSeptember 4, 2013Latest