Agonizing over Afghanistan
Agonizing over Afghanistan

BY KAREN WALKER

Ten weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama announced his “comprehensive strategy” for Afghanistan.

DARTS & LAURELS
Manning overboard
TO THE NAVY for a lean manning policy that appears to have gone too far. Efficiency is good in any large organization, but a Naval Inspector General’s report following a visit to...
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Perspectives
COL. JAMES JINNETTE
Our defense establishment has become seduced by the idea of unmanned airpower. Futurists predict an eventual combat force of unmanned systems performing existing wartime missions, directed by teams of remote operators or perhaps even autonomously guided by artificial intelligence. Impressed with...
Perspectives
SCOTT HAMILTON
“As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don’t know.”
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