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Problematic Lessons of the Liberation of Ramadi From Washington to Baghdad, the United States, the Iraqi government and the 65 members of the anti-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) coalition are breathing a sigh of relief. The town of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province and the scene of one of th ...
Did Carter Memo “Hang” One Service Secretary To Encourage The Others? Some 260 years ago, the famous French philosopher and man of letters, Voltaire, delivered the following comment on the execution of British Admiral John Byng for failure to do his utmost in battle: “in this country (England), it is good, to kill an adm ...
F-35 Rising: The Pentagon’s Biggest Weapon Program Made Major Progress in 2015 (From Forbes) The tri-service F-35 fighter, by far the Pentagon's biggest weapon program, is finishing up the most successful year in its history.  Not only did Congress and the Obama Administration give the program increased budgetary resources last week, but every ...
Fighting ISIS: Why The Obama Narrative Isn’t Connecting (From Forbes) President Obama's strategy for defeating radical jihadists is a sensible balancing of conflicting objectives that shows signs of succeeding.  However, you'd never know that from looking at public-opinion surveys about his performance in dealing with th ...
Republican Debate Fails To Address Greater Threats From Russia And China It should come as no surprise to anyone that yesterday’s Republican presidential debate, coming as it did on the heels of the slaughters in Paris and San Bernardino, focused almost exclusively on dealing with the terrorist threat. It is difficult at th ...
Obama Backs Biggest Nuclear Arms Buildup Since Cold War (From Forbes) Barack Obama has been a proponent of nuclear disarmament his entire adult life, but you'd never know that to look at the sprawling strategic modernization agenda his administration is pursuing.  The president's plan involves replacing every delivery sy ...
The New Arms Race: NATO Missile Defense Versus Russian Missiles Despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts, relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, to put it mildly, have soured. As has become crystal clear over the past 18 months, the source of the problem in U.S.-Russian relations for the last 15 years was n ...
War In Europe: Why The Army Is Worried (From Forbes) Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine has forced the Pentagon to rethink what threats might be facing Europe in the years ahead.  However, not much has been done to bolster U.S. forces that would have to cope with further Russian land grabs.  That matters ...
Save the U.S. Army: Send it Back to Europe Why does the United States maintain an Army? This question has bedeviled successive American administrations and even Army Chiefs since the end of the Cold War. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the defeat of Iraq (then the world’s fourth large ...
Nuclear Command & Control System: Modernization Necessary to Keep President Informed According to the U.S. National Security Strategy, the potential use of nuclear weapons poses the greatest danger to U.S. security. The U.S. strategic deterrent exists to deter a nuclear attack or blackmail against the United States and its allies. If d ...
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