August 2011 Issue
On the eve of Afghanization
The war in Afghanistan is at an inflection point. The U.S., its coalition partners and the Afghan government have decided that, by December 2014, the Afghan armed forces will take the lead...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
The war in Afghanistan is at an inflection point. The U.S., its coalition partners and the Afghan government have decided that, by December 2014, the Afghan armed forces will take the lead...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
Changing threats Distance learning
Retired Col. Bob Killebrew’s insightful article on the changing nature of national security threats [“A Darwinian world,” May AFJ] seemed to mirror the mission set faced by...
Retired Col. Bob Killebrew’s insightful article on the changing nature of national security threats [“A Darwinian world,” May AFJ] seemed to mirror the mission set faced by...
In this issue
The Lisbon Summit set dates for the Afghanistan handover: July begins the transition process; December 2014 is the stated end date.
The Lisbon Summit set dates for the Afghanistan handover: July begins the transition process; December 2014 is the stated end date.
Spin machine
Mountstuart Elphinstone, a British East India Company official, declared in 1809 about Afghanistan, “[a visitor] would find it difficult to comprehend how a nation could subsist in...
BY MAJ. WILLIAM B. TAYLOR
Mountstuart Elphinstone, a British East India Company official, declared in 1809 about Afghanistan, “[a visitor] would find it difficult to comprehend how a nation could subsist in...
BY MAJ. WILLIAM B. TAYLOR
The key to staying cyber safe
Each day’s headlines bring news of cyber attacks that have become more sophisticated, more creative and more targeted than ever before. Today’s cyber threat profile has evolved...
BY KEITH RHODES
Each day’s headlines bring news of cyber attacks that have become more sophisticated, more creative and more targeted than ever before. Today’s cyber threat profile has evolved...
BY KEITH RHODES
Trouble busters
When a crisis erupts the first question U.S. leaders often ask is, “Where are the aircraft carriers?” This historical axiom, however, has expanded over time and now regional...
BY MAJ. GEN. TIM HANIFEN, REAR ADM. SINCLAIR HARRIS AND ROBERT HOLZER
When a crisis erupts the first question U.S. leaders often ask is, “Where are the aircraft carriers?” This historical axiom, however, has expanded over time and now regional...
BY MAJ. GEN. TIM HANIFEN, REAR ADM. SINCLAIR HARRIS AND ROBERT HOLZER
New territory
The huge increase in unmanned aircraft use — most apparent in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — makes it easy to assume that unmanned will soon be the norm. The next new long-range...
BY KAREN WALKER
The huge increase in unmanned aircraft use — most apparent in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — makes it easy to assume that unmanned will soon be the norm. The next new long-range...
BY KAREN WALKER
Return on investment
At the time NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) stood up in November 2009, the security transition that began this July was not discussed. Instead, the focus was simply on reversing...
BY LT. GEN. WILLIAM B. CALDWELL IV AND COL. KEITH A. DETWILER
At the time NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) stood up in November 2009, the security transition that began this July was not discussed. Instead, the focus was simply on reversing...
BY LT. GEN. WILLIAM B. CALDWELL IV AND COL. KEITH A. DETWILER
Break the brass ceiling
With the announcement that Adm. Jon Greenert, the vice chief of naval operations, will move up to become the chief of naval operations, President Obama and former Defense Secretary Robert...
by lawrence korb and laura conley
With the announcement that Adm. Jon Greenert, the vice chief of naval operations, will move up to become the chief of naval operations, President Obama and former Defense Secretary Robert...
by lawrence korb and laura conley
NATO on the ropes
The continued viability of the NATO alliance, the bedrock of U.S. and European defense policy since 1949, is in jeopardy. I suppose it still serves a middling political role in occasionally...
By Gene Myers
The continued viability of the NATO alliance, the bedrock of U.S. and European defense policy since 1949, is in jeopardy. I suppose it still serves a middling political role in occasionally...
By Gene Myers
Snowflakes from the edge
All snowflakes look alike, but no two are identical. That’s especially true when the snow machine is former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In his latest release of a batch of more...
BY KAREN WALKER
All snowflakes look alike, but no two are identical. That’s especially true when the snow machine is former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In his latest release of a batch of more...
BY KAREN WALKER
The end of war
In “The Invention of Peace,” British historian Michael Howard notes that it was the rise of the modern state, with powerful kings, that first brought the idea of...
BY BOB KILLEBREW
In “The Invention of Peace,” British historian Michael Howard notes that it was the rise of the modern state, with powerful kings, that first brought the idea of...
BY BOB KILLEBREW
The right course To President Obama for reversing the long-standing policy of not sending condolence letters to families of troops who commit suicide while deployed to the Iraq or Afghanistan war zones.
Cyber yawn To the Pentagon for its cyber defense strategy, which falls into the same trap where countless previous cyber policy documents have fallen, describing broad initiatives while avoiding...
Shuttle salute To the Space Shuttle. When Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, a 30-year chapter of American human spaceflight was brought to a close. Given the cost of the program...
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