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Public-Private Partnerships It has been six years and three days since the Al Qaeda attack on the American homeland. I doubt anyone in this room woke up on September 12th, assuming you were able to sleep that night, thinking it . . .
Troop Surge Fails To Yield Political Progress — In America Iraq isn't the only place where a recent change in military strategy has failed to produce political reconciliation. In Washington, Republicans are singing the praises of General Petraeus while some . . .
Army Plans For Reconnaissance Drones Misuse A Vital Asset The only upside to the heavy burden that America's Army is carrying in Iraq is an abundance of money. Congress may not know how to deal with IEDs or save the marriage of a soldier deploying for his fourth . . .
Joint Fighter: The Case For Buying Competing Engines Is Weak The biggest program in the Pentagon's weapons budget is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will cost $338 billion -- a third of a trillion dollars -- to develop, manufacture and maintain. Current plans call for . . .
TSAT: Essential to Security The Transformational Satellite Communications program, or TSAT, is a planned constellation of five communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit linked to thousands of portable terminals distributed . . .
Joint Radio: Vision Of A Transformed Force Slipping Away When President Bush took office nearly seven years ago, his vision of how the military needed to change could be summed up in one word: transformation. Bush shared with many other observers a belief that . . .
Air Force Plan For Radar Planes Is Missing In Action If there is one lesson U.S. defense planners should have learned from the frustrating campaign to take down Al Qaeda since 9-11, it is the need for better intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The . . .
Congress Moving to Increase UN Support Conflicts over the war in Iraq and turmoil at the Justice Department are obscuring a rare case of cooperation between the Administration and Capitol Hill. The White House has asked for greater support . . .
Why Do Navy Dept. Alumni Get The Pentagon’s Plum Jobs? There was a time when the assignment of top jobs in the joint force resembled the workings of the congressional seniority system more than a merit-based selection process. Representatives from each of
IRAQ: The Consequences Of Retreat Something happens to countries when they become empires (real or metaphorical). Over time their ruling elites grow so affluent and insular that they lose discipline, and abandon the habits that made . . .
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