July 2009 Issue
In this issue
Preparations for next year’s Quadrennial Defense Review collide with a split in thinking over what the post-Iraq war threats will be — insurgencies, conventional or something in...
Preparations for next year’s Quadrennial Defense Review collide with a split in thinking over what the post-Iraq war threats will be — insurgencies, conventional or something in...
Flashpoint: The Great Wall goes to sea
Militarily, China has not been well-known for its navy. The army has long been the dominant service in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), a country celebrating the 60th anniversary...
By Peter Brookes
Militarily, China has not been well-known for its navy. The army has long been the dominant service in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), a country celebrating the 60th anniversary...
By Peter Brookes
Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets
Every year, the services spend millions of dollars teaching our people how to think. We invest in everything from war colleges to noncommissioned officer schools. Our senior schools in...
By T.X. Hammes
Every year, the services spend millions of dollars teaching our people how to think. We invest in everything from war colleges to noncommissioned officer schools. Our senior schools in...
By T.X. Hammes
Striking a balance
We are in another post-Iraq war debate about how to best posture our military investments for the future. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review will center on the critical question about the...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
We are in another post-Iraq war debate about how to best posture our military investments for the future. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review will center on the critical question about the...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
Projecting power
With the next congressionally mandated Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) lurking in the near future, our military services need to take stock of where they are, what they need to do their...
By Gene Myers
With the next congressionally mandated Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) lurking in the near future, our military services need to take stock of where they are, what they need to do their...
By Gene Myers
Lowering risk
During the 20th century, perhaps 175 million people died in war, and the majority of those were civilian non-combatants. World War II was the worst, claiming as many as 60 million victims,...
By Phillip S. Meilinger
During the 20th century, perhaps 175 million people died in war, and the majority of those were civilian non-combatants. World War II was the worst, claiming as many as 60 million victims,...
By Phillip S. Meilinger
Where the money is
Even as the U.S. begins to draw down its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, a host of nonstate adversaries will remain significant threats to the U.S. national security landscape. From...
By Joseph E. Lin and Jeffrey Arnett
Even as the U.S. begins to draw down its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, a host of nonstate adversaries will remain significant threats to the U.S. national security landscape. From...
By Joseph E. Lin and Jeffrey Arnett
Why senior military leaders fail
In the first decade of the 21st century, the U.S. military observed the firings or resignations of the chief of staff of the Air Force, the secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, plus...
By Lt. Col. Donald Drechsler AND Col. Charles D. Allen (Ret.)
In the first decade of the 21st century, the U.S. military observed the firings or resignations of the chief of staff of the Air Force, the secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, plus...
By Lt. Col. Donald Drechsler AND Col. Charles D. Allen (Ret.)
Transition strategy: A new Gitmo
By Beltway standards, it was high drama. Fresh from his first rebuff by congressional Democrats over closing the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an embattled President Barack Obama...
By Joseph Collins
By Beltway standards, it was high drama. Fresh from his first rebuff by congressional Democrats over closing the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an embattled President Barack Obama...
By Joseph Collins
Industry pulse: Disappearing skills
It’s Tanker Time, and the senior senator from Boeing, Patty Murray, D-Wash., is up to her old tricks. Murray introduced legislation in the Senate that is intended to favor...
By Scott Hamilton
It’s Tanker Time, and the senior senator from Boeing, Patty Murray, D-Wash., is up to her old tricks. Murray introduced legislation in the Senate that is intended to favor...
By Scott Hamilton
Forces in discord
QALAT, Zabul Province, Afghanistan — Any long-term exit strategy for the U.S. forces flooding into southern Afghanistan will require the creation of reliable, professional Afghan...
By Sean D. Naylor
QALAT, Zabul Province, Afghanistan — Any long-term exit strategy for the U.S. forces flooding into southern Afghanistan will require the creation of reliable, professional Afghan...
By Sean D. Naylor
Rights runaround TO CONGRESSMAN MIKE ROGERS for trying to stir up a White House-is-soft-on-terrorists scare over detainees in Afghanistan being read their Miranda rights. The Michigan Republican handed a...
F-22 finagling TO SEN. DANIEL INOUYE for leading an ill-researched and clumsily disguised effort to keep the F-22 in production. The Hawaii Democrat said the Japanese asked him to inquire about an export...
No legacy fighters TO AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ for emphatically ending industry-prompted media speculation that the service wants to buy more F-15s or F-16s to fill the coming...
FORUM PICK: From our online discussion board
The radical nature of the Bush Administration’s war aims — the reformation of the Iraqi political identity, domination of the Iraqi economy and natural resources — was...
The radical nature of the Bush Administration’s war aims — the reformation of the Iraqi political identity, domination of the Iraqi economy and natural resources — was...
A global problem
In the summer of 2008, the nation of Georgia was attacked by hackers, presumably from Russia. The media speculated it was the first “cyberwar” because the attacks were launched...
By Maj. David Willson
In the summer of 2008, the nation of Georgia was attacked by hackers, presumably from Russia. The media speculated it was the first “cyberwar” because the attacks were launched...
By Maj. David Willson
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