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Ice breaker
(March 2010)
While the science community debates whether global warming is fact or fraud, this much is certain: The Navy will soon sail uncharted waters — and it won’t be a pleasure cruise.
BY LANCE M. BACON
While the science community debates whether global warming is fact or fraud, this much is certain: The Navy will soon sail uncharted waters — and it won’t be a pleasure cruise.
BY LANCE M. BACON
Polar frontiers
(March 2010)
A new Arctic age is emerging. New forces are transforming the very fabric of the entire region. Some of these changes will positively benefit those people who call the region home, while...
BY ROB HUEBERT
A new Arctic age is emerging. New forces are transforming the very fabric of the entire region. Some of these changes will positively benefit those people who call the region home, while...
BY ROB HUEBERT
Expeditionary ethos
(March 2010)
The geo-strategist Halford McKinder once divided major states between Land and Sea Wolves. States that have an expeditionary capability are not limited to either/or status. They crossbreed...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
The geo-strategist Halford McKinder once divided major states between Land and Sea Wolves. States that have an expeditionary capability are not limited to either/or status. They crossbreed...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
Flashpoint: The Chavez challenge
(March 2010)
In the media, President Hugo Chavez seems to be portrayed more commonly these days as a threat to golf, which he considers “bourgeois” and is trying to eradicate in Venezuela,...
BY PETER BROOKES
In the media, President Hugo Chavez seems to be portrayed more commonly these days as a threat to golf, which he considers “bourgeois” and is trying to eradicate in Venezuela,...
BY PETER BROOKES
The Last QDR? What the Pentagon should learn from corporations about strategic planning
(March 2010)
As the Defense Department was getting ready for another one of its large-scale strategic planning drills, senior Washington analyst Anthony Cordesman offered a grim assessment of such past...
BY IONUT C. POPESCU
As the Defense Department was getting ready for another one of its large-scale strategic planning drills, senior Washington analyst Anthony Cordesman offered a grim assessment of such past...
BY IONUT C. POPESCU
Industry pulse: Diverse needs
(March 2010)
One of the companies hardest hit by shifting defense priorities under Secretary Robert Gates in the fiscal 2010 budget was Boeing.
BY SCOTT HAMILTON
One of the companies hardest hit by shifting defense priorities under Secretary Robert Gates in the fiscal 2010 budget was Boeing.
BY SCOTT HAMILTON
Essay: Afghan reconciliation
(March 2010)
Everyone from Paris to Pakistan thinks reconciliation between the Taliban and the Hamid Karzai government is a positive move toward peace. Saudi Arabia is involved, various countries want to...
BY JOSEPH J.COLLINS
Everyone from Paris to Pakistan thinks reconciliation between the Taliban and the Hamid Karzai government is a positive move toward peace. Saudi Arabia is involved, various countries want to...
BY JOSEPH J.COLLINS
Flashpoint: Yemen: Who knew?
(February 2010)
In the days after the foiled Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, some were quick to call for a new front in the war on terror, this time in Yemen, where the Nigerian-born...
In the days after the foiled Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, some were quick to call for a new front in the war on terror, this time in Yemen, where the Nigerian-born...
The Founders’ wisdom
(February 2010)
The U.S. faces a number of difficult challenges in civil-military relations that carry with them profound effects on our national security. Among these issues are declining popular support...
BY LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING
The U.S. faces a number of difficult challenges in civil-military relations that carry with them profound effects on our national security. Among these issues are declining popular support...
BY LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING
What civil-military crisis?
(February 2010)
More than 15 years after Gen. Colin Powell’s tour as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pundits and scholars are again worried about cocky generals “playing politics.” For his...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
More than 15 years after Gen. Colin Powell’s tour as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, pundits and scholars are again worried about cocky generals “playing politics.” For his...
BY JOSEPH J. COLLINS
An alternative to COIN
(February 2010)
The U.S. military is a dominant fighting force, capable of rapid global power projection and able to defeat state adversaries quickly and at relatively low cost in American lives and...
BY BERNARD I. FINEL
The U.S. military is a dominant fighting force, capable of rapid global power projection and able to defeat state adversaries quickly and at relatively low cost in American lives and...
BY BERNARD I. FINEL
Essay: The lone wolf and his pack
(February 2010)
The term “lone wolf” was popularized in the 1990s to refer to an extremist who acts alone to avoid incriminating others. American extremists are often lone wolves, and many of...
BY LT. COL. EUGENIA K. GUILMARTIN
The term “lone wolf” was popularized in the 1990s to refer to an extremist who acts alone to avoid incriminating others. American extremists are often lone wolves, and many of...
BY LT. COL. EUGENIA K. GUILMARTIN
Essay: One size doesn’t fit all
(February 2010)
In “A vehicle for modern times [December/January AFJ],” by retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the call for a Ground Combat Vehicle universal carrier is buoyed by a presumed...
MAJ. JOE EWERS
In “A vehicle for modern times [December/January AFJ],” by retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the call for a Ground Combat Vehicle universal carrier is buoyed by a presumed...
MAJ. JOE EWERS
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