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The most interesting part of President Obama’s speech yesterday at the National Defense University wasn’t his articulate defense of the way his administration had conducted the war on terror or the measure he announced to dial down the intensity if not the scope of future efforts against terrorist
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5/24/2013
It has been almost twenty years since the topics of U.S. national security strategy and defense policy were seriously discussed. For the first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. defense establishment was preoccupied with managing the drawdown and – marginal – recasting of the
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5/23/2013
The problem with the news is that it is always about what's happening today. It's almost never about underlying trends or larger meanings. So if you peruse the archives of major newspapers over the last few decades, you'll find their front pages were full of stories that turned out not
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5/9/2013
The preservation of air dominance is crucial to strategic deterrence and to the successful prosecution of modern warfare. General Charles Horner developed and implemented the air campaign in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. He put it best when he said: “If you don’t control the air, you’d better
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4/22/2013
For more than half a century there has been the modern military version of a gunfighters’ standoff on the Korean Peninsula. On the northern side of the border is an army of nearly one million with heavy mechanized formations and tens of thousands of artillery pieces and rocket launchers pointed
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4/15/2013
When was the last time the U.S. projected its military power overseas without air and sea superiority? It was 1942. Looking to stop Japan’s expansion across the Pacific and secure the sea lines of communication to Australia, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon’s
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4/2/2013
Air dominance is crucial to U.S. military strategy. However, dominance means more than mere command of the air. It means being able to leverage that command to provide awareness, mobility and precision strike to the entire joint force. Over the last eight months, the Lexington Institute has
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2/27/2013