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Scientists Behaving Badly
Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled. According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested to by...
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Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy
Just before 8:00 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, the first of two waves of attacking aircraft swept over Pearl Harbor. Barely 15 minutes later the most powerful battleships of the mighty U.S. Pacific Fleet were...
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Air-Sea Battle
Unbeknownst to most Americans, the U.S. military is in the midst of another of its many revolutions in thinking. As we depart Iraq and begin positioning ourselves to exit Afghanistan, the military...
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Scrooge: The First 1 Percenter
I have no idea whether Charles Dickens, if he were alive today, would have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement. Given the revulsion he expressed when America’s riff-raff had the temerity to become...
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The Army We Need
Last week, former Army chief of staff Gen. Gordon Sullivan editorialized that the Army is repeating the mistakes of the post-Vietnam era, when it turned away from a decade’s experience fighting a...
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Iran’s Hormuz Threat
For the past two weeks Iran has committed a sizable portion of its military to rehearsing how it would go about closing the Hormuz Strait. For the most part, strategic analysts yawned, and declared...
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Gutting the Defense Budget
In 2010, Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, waded into a domestic political debate he would have been well advised to avoid. By declaring that “Our national debt is our...
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Firing Generals
To paraphrase Shakespeare: “The first thing we do, let’s fire all the generals.”This is the basic prescription of military journalist and writer Tom Ricks, who, in his new book, The Generals, blames...
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Why Armies Matter
Around the Pentagon, the budget cutters have put away their knives and are reaching for axes. In times like these, every service naturally circles the wagons around its share of the budget pie. The...
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Soft Power, Smart Power
During World War II, Stalin’s advisers encouraged him to seek the favor of the pope. He famously replied: “How many divisions does the pope have?” Decades later, the Soviets came to realize that papal...
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America’s Global Retreat
Arleigh-Burke-class destroyers (front to back) USS Campbell, USS Lassen, and USS Shoup on maneuversSelecting strategic options for the United States is a parlor game that thousands of people are always...
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Budgets and Strategy
U.S. Army troops on the ground in Kandahar Province, AfghanistanEarlier this month, the Defense Department released its budget priorities and choices for the next year in an attempt to align America’s...
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The QDR — Good for Nothing
Air Force F-35AIt is time to kill the congressionally mandated Quadrennial Defense Review — or radically revamp it.Congress’s original intent, in the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997, was...
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American Power
A U.S. Abrams tank is prepped to depart from Germany. (U.S. Army/Alex Burnett)A while back I was interviewed about one of my books. At some point, the discussion took a bad turn when my interviewer...
View ArticleThe Army We Need
Last week, former Army chief of staff Gen. Gordon Sullivan editorialized that the Army is repeating the mistakes of the post-Vietnam era, when it turned away from a decade’s experience fighting a...
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For the past two weeks Iran has committed a sizable portion of its military to rehearsing how it would go about closing the Hormuz Strait. For the most part, strategic analysts yawned, and declared...
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In 2010, Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, waded into a domestic political debate he would have been well advised to avoid. By declaring that “Our national debt is our...
View ArticleFiring Generals
To paraphrase Shakespeare: “The first thing we do, let’s fire all the generals.” This is the basic prescription of military journalist and writer Tom Ricks, who, in his new book, The Generals, blames...
View ArticleWhy Armies Matter
Around the Pentagon, the budget cutters have put away their knives and are reaching for axes. In times like these, every service naturally circles the wagons around its share of the budget pie. The...
View ArticleSoft Power, Smart Power
During World War II, Stalin’s advisers encouraged him to seek the favor of the pope. He famously replied: “How many divisions does the pope have?” Decades later, the Soviets came to realize that papal...
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