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Why The Hate For Hagel? The Twilight Of The NeoCons
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyThe pundits are reading the tea leaves and the critics sharpening their knives. What would Chuck Hagel be like, really, as Secretary of Defense? If you want to...
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Crafting A Pacific Attack & Defense Enterprise: The Strategic Quadrangle
Filed under: Intel & Cyber, Strategy & PolicyThe pivot to the Pacific started more than a century ago. The United States first became a Pacific power in 1898, the year the US first annexed...
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Why Air Force Needs Lots Of F-35s: Gen. Hostage On The 'Combat Cloud'
Filed under: Air, Intel & CyberTechnology is not enough. What's equally essential is ideas for how to use it. Wielding new weapons in the same old way is a recipe for defeat. As the US military...
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Partners In The Pacific: Singapore, Australia, & Japan
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyPundits tend to forget that the 21st century is not the 20th repeated. As much as the US competition with a rising China is framed as a reprise of the Cold War with...
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China, Korea, & The F-35: Reshaping US Forces For A Pacific Strategy
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyIf the US fails to innovate in its re-shaping of its forces in the Pacific, it cannot effectively play the crucial role which is essential to a strategy focused on our...
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Retired Lt. Gen. Deptula: Drones Best Weapons We've Got For Accuracy,...
Filed under: Air Dave Deptula, the first general charged with overseeing drones and the Air Force general in command of the Air Operations Center when the first Predator fired a Hellfire missile, steps...
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Nuclear Weapons Critics Suffer Cold War Brain Freeze; Deterrence Works,...
Filed under: Strategy & Policy Before his latest State of the Union speech, President Obama was widely reported to be ready to propose a significant reduction in nuclear weapons. Then North Korea...
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What SecDef Chuck Hagel Could Learn From William Cohen
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyUnless Sens. Ted Cruz, James Inhofe or another GOP senator decides to take some extraordinary actions, their former colleague Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Defense...
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80,000 Tons Of Innovation: USNS Montford Point, The Navy's New Mobile Landing...
Filed under: SeaWe attended the christening last week of the newest US Navy ship, an 80,000 ton (fully laden) vessel that is not an aircraft carrier. Instead, the USNS Montford Point is the first of a...
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Chuck Hagel's First Test: North Korea and the Second Nuclear Age
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyHow do you deter a nuclear power like North Korea when it looks as if they just won't play by the rules of conventional deterrence? What is the U.S. and allied nuclear...
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How To Cut The Defense Budget Without Killing The Force
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyThe House passed the second Continuing Resolution of the year today, avoiding the direst scenario that had haunted many in American defense circles. But the CR's...
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What Congress Can Do To Trim Pentagon Overhead
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyThe Pentagon needs to trim it's overhead, many senior officials and experts argue, because it sucks scarce resources away from military weapons and personnel. To...
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Why We Still Need To Stop Sequestration
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyThe President, congressional leaders of both parties and senior military leaders all agreed: Sequestration should never happen. Yet here we are, one month in. Two...
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Adm. Greenert: Wireless Cyberwar, The EM Spectrum, And The Changing Navy
Filed under: Intel & Cyber, Sea [The author, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, is Chief of Naval Operations, the most senior officer in the United States Navy. CNO Greenert has increasingly emphasized the...
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Save Our Subs: Prioritizing The Attack Submarine
Filed under: SeaFor a host of security and economic reasons, American foreign and defense policy will increasingly focus on the Asia-Pacific region in the decades ahead. With over 60% of all U.S....
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Preventing Asteroid Armageddon: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again
Filed under: Intel & CyberThe public experienced a moment of angst in 1997 when it looked like Asteroid XF11 might threaten the Earth in 2028. It didn't. But that doesn't mean the threat doesn't...
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Retired Teacher Pens 10,000 Letters To Troops; Touching The 1 Percent
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyWay back in World War II, when my father was in the Army, everybody knew somebody in the military. More than half of eligible males were in uniform. During the Vietnam...
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How To Handle North Korea: Building 21st Century Deterrent Capabilities
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyI had the privilege to study and work with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski as a student and for my first research job. With Brzezinski, one is always pushed towards the "Zbig"...
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Hagel's Budget: Where's The Beef In Reform Efforts, Weapons Buys?
Filed under: Strategy & Policy In a town full of hot air, speeches are a dime a dozen. But money still talks. So let's compare the new Secretary of Defense's policy agenda to his first proposed...
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New York's Fleet Week Latest Victim Of Sequester Insanity
Filed under: Sea, Strategy & PolicyThe automatic congressional budget cuts known as sequestration have claimed another victim, New York City's annual "Fleet Week" celebration set for May 23. Last...
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