Post Tagged with: "shutdown"

Cuts Make Military More Strategic? | A Near Casualty of the Shutdown | Mountain Combat

Could defense cuts actually help the US military by improving strategy? Melvyn Leffler argues as much, saying that the cuts are focusing military planners on important strategic decisions and forcing them to …

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Extreme tiered readiness | Regionally focused training | Do maritime security right

Extreme tiered readiness | Regionally focused training | Do maritime security right

The Army will have to move into an ‘extreme tiered readiness model’ as it struggles to train and equip soldiers amid the ongoing fiscal crisis, the service’s top officer said Chief of …

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Only two brigades are ready | Keeping the Arctic peace | U.S. ASW vision

Only two brigades are ready | Keeping the Arctic peace | U.S. ASW vision

Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno says his service has just two combat-ready brigades. (Defense News). And don’t miss the rest of Defense News’ coverage from AUSA.

James Stavridis on avoiding war …

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

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

120mm mortar

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, …

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

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

Harrison

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 …

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Sequester forever? | Lessons from Mogadishu | USAF readiness

The GOP fight to delay Obamacare has sapped efforts to eliminate sequester cuts. (The Hill)

On the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu, Benjamin Runkle draws up a list of lessons …

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Are we winning? | Split NSA and CyberCom | Civil-military tension

At a conference on “assessing war” — that is, determining whether you’re winning or losing — Mark Stout found himself longing not for the hard drive with 47 terabytes of data on …

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DoD & the shutdown | Too big to manage | Navy’s missing strategy

Welcome to the shutdown. In case you missed it, here’s a look at how the military is to respond. (Defense News, Andrew Tilghman)

Meanwhile, the world keeps spinning. @FAScientists tweets: “To fix …

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