June 2012 Issue
In this issue: June 2012
What do the Japanese Long Lance torpedo, the F-117 Nighthawk and the atom bomb have in common? They were developed in secrecy, concealed until their first combat deployment, and used, at...
What do the Japanese Long Lance torpedo, the F-117 Nighthawk and the atom bomb have in common? They were developed in secrecy, concealed until their first combat deployment, and used, at...
IED data debate
Although filled with passion and zeal based on their experience in Iraq, Navy Lts. Deak C. Childress and John G. Taylor miscategorized the Combined Information Data Network Exchange...
Although filled with passion and zeal based on their experience in Iraq, Navy Lts. Deak C. Childress and John G. Taylor miscategorized the Combined Information Data Network Exchange...
Air-Sea Battle: Clearing the fog
Recent articles about Air-Sea Battle reflect misperceptions about this new operational concept. These may have been fostered by the fact that portions of the concept document are classified....
BY CAPT. PHILIP DUPREE, USN, AND COL. JORDAN THOMAS, USAF
Recent articles about Air-Sea Battle reflect misperceptions about this new operational concept. These may have been fostered by the fact that portions of the concept document are classified....
BY CAPT. PHILIP DUPREE, USN, AND COL. JORDAN THOMAS, USAF
Secret weapons & cyberwar
For most people, the phrase “secret weapon” usually brings to mind some state-of-the-art gadget that wowed them in the last James Bond movie. In fact, the United States and other...
By Ravi R. Hichkad and Christopher J. Bowie
For most people, the phrase “secret weapon” usually brings to mind some state-of-the-art gadget that wowed them in the last James Bond movie. In fact, the United States and other...
By Ravi R. Hichkad and Christopher J. Bowie
The militarization of the presidency
“Poor Ike,” President Harry Truman is reported to have mused in 1952, as he contemplated the prospect of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower succeeding him in the White House. “It...
By Maj. Charles G. Kels
“Poor Ike,” President Harry Truman is reported to have mused in 1952, as he contemplated the prospect of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower succeeding him in the White House. “It...
By Maj. Charles G. Kels
The alternative to long war
The recent discussions in the defense and general media about stresses on our military personnel and the increasing calls among members of Congress for early withdrawal from Afghanistan...
By Gene Myers
The recent discussions in the defense and general media about stresses on our military personnel and the increasing calls among members of Congress for early withdrawal from Afghanistan...
By Gene Myers
PowerPoint: You’re doing it wrong
We love to hate PowerPoint, but we keep using it. The criticisms of Microsoft’s ubiquitous presentation tool are serious: that it weakens the quality of analytical thinking,...
By Andrew V. Abela
We love to hate PowerPoint, but we keep using it. The criticisms of Microsoft’s ubiquitous presentation tool are serious: that it weakens the quality of analytical thinking,...
By Andrew V. Abela
Call it PTSI TO RETIRED GEN. PETER CHIARELLI for his battle to get America’s psychiatric community to rename a signature injury of the recent wars. Instead of post-traumatic stress disorder,...
Fuel folly TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS for attempting to shut down the Navy’s biofuel efforts. By forbidding DoD to make or buy any alternative fuel that costs more than a “traditional”...
Off course on Islam TO GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY for pulling the plug on a Joint Forces Staff College course that taught “Islam had already declared war on the West” and, as reported by Wired’s...
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