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SmallWarsJournal.com September 1, 2012 In my Foreign Policy column, I explain why missiles, technology, and budget problems are now conspiring against aircraft carriers. For decades, aircraft carriers have been the tool-of-choice for crisis response. Policymakers in Washington and four-star commanders in the field invariably have turned to carriers when they needed to signal U.S. intentions, …
Continue reading "This Week At War: Shipping Out By Robert Haddick"
Washington Post September 4, 2012 Pg. 1 Instead of pushing changes, defense chief emphasizes consensus For most of the past year, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has stressed that the vast military complex over which he presides is at a "strategic turning point." A decade of grinding guerrilla war is drawing to a close. Defense …
Continue reading "At Military’s ‘Turning Point,’ Panetta Avoids Bold Moves By Greg Jaffe"
Air Force Times September 10, 2012 Pg. 20 Budget Cuts Bear Down As the specter of mandatory budget cuts totaling $500 billion within the Defense Department looms ever larger, the Air Force finds itself facing the possibility of dialing back its aircraft modernization plans and ditching older aircraft. Lawmakers have until the end of the …
Continue reading "Air Force could lose big in procurement, aircraft, readiness By Jeff Schogol"
SmallWarsJournal.com September 1, 2012 DeM Banter: so I ask myself...what are WE going to do about it? Back to the foxhole...we can do this and we can do better...thoughts? Case studies abound of businesses that have seen their success turn into bloat, hubris, and ultimately decline. It should be no surprise then that the most …
Continue reading "The Case For Disruption And Dialogue In Defense Reform By Peter J. Munson"
View Original DeM Banter: HUGE VDH fan, great points from Victor. The United States is backing off from the Middle East -- and the Middle East from the United States. America is in the midst of the greatest domestic gas and oil revolution since the early 20th century. If even guarded predictions about new North …
Continue reading "The Humpty-Dumpty Middle East By Victor Davis Hanson"
DeM Banter: interesting that it took a while for Charles Krauthammer to respond to Deterrence Works By Fareed Zakaria Washington Post, March 15, 2012, but here it is. Believe he is on some pretty solid ground and one the USAF could probably learn from when looking at Afghanistan and Iraq. A nation has many arrows …
Continue reading "The ‘Deterrence Works’ Fantasy By Charles Krauthammer"
Wall Street Journal August 29, 2012 Pg. 15 Public apathy isn't necessarily fatal for the war effort. It could even provide the opportunity to finally get it 'right.' In 2006, the Washington Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran published a 336-page indictment of the Iraq war, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City." According to Nielsen BookScan, it sold …
Continue reading "Afghanistan—The ‘Who Cares?’ War By Max Boot"
DeM Banter: Dr Walt is a much smarter man than I....but...really? Not sure I'm buying' Philadelphia Inquirer August 29, 2012 Pg. 18 If you were focused on Hurricane Isaac or the violence in Syria, you might have missed the latest round of threat inflation surrounding China. Last week, the New York Times reported that China …
Continue reading "China’s Buildup: Don’t Believe The Hype By Stephen M. Walt"
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche DeM Banter: strategy issues? Sad state of affairs with tons of blame well shared...so now, how do we get better, isn't that the …
Continue reading "‘Guardian Angels’ Won’t Fix A Flawed War Policy By James Carroll"
By J. William DeMarco In 2007-08 I was fortunate enough to be selected a a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. An outstanding year spent with some of the foremost personalities in National Security on both the Right and the Left sides of the aisle. While there we were required …
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