Lee, Benning, Beauregard, Gordon, Rucker all fought to keep people from a different race as property. They do not deserve to be lionized by the successor to the Union Army.
In December 2019, Alexandra Hall Hall resigned from her post as Brexit counselor at the British Embassy in Washington, DC. She explains her choice and that of other principled resigners:
It is in the interest of the United States to counter Chinese pressure and to be prepared to help defend Taiwan with military force if it ever comes to it.
Congratulations to Jane Vaynman of Temple University, for taking home first prize in the inaugural Janne Nolan competition for the best article on national security/international affairs!
The whistleblower's name is almost certainly about to be brought into the light, whether he likes it or not. This is terrible for the intelligence community, the media, and the country.
The quick delivery of Starlink satellite internet to Ukraine provides an example of what could be possible if NATO had a more flexible approach to acquisitions.
Treason it was, and treason most foul, and it is not too late to reconsider the historical influences that led the Army to name bases after Confederate officers.
By helping Taiwan build a resilient and layered network of air defenses, the United States will go a long way toward deterring a confrontation in the first place.
Their guiding ideologies are distinct, but foreign white supremacy extremist groups function quite similarly to their Islamic extremist counterparts; similar measures can and should be taken against them
"It is disturbing that the president ... sees institutions like the World Health Organization not as a tool to save lives, but to save face." Sen. Chris Murphy on Trump's attempt to blame the WHO for covid-19:
McRaven's condemnation went well beyond the strictures of denying a former CIA director continued access to classified information.
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The longer Ukrainians hold out, the more challenges Russia will face. The same would be even more true for China, because resupplies would have to be brought across the Taiwan Strait.
That an acting Navy secretary might intervene in the military's affairs to safeguard the president's popularity, or his own position, is remarkable by contemporary standards.
We are rapidly moving from industrial-era warfare to information-era warfare, which is making legacy bureaucratic processes and military organizations obsolete. We are ill-prepared.
The military's post-9/11 response to Islamist extremism led to years of ignoring and even tolerating domestic and white nationalist extremism among active-duty military members
Listen to a preview of Mike Kofman’s conversation with colleagues Rob Lee and Dara Massicot about how Ukraine can regenerate combat power and retake the advantage in 2025. Find the full episode here:
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Listen as Mike, Ryan, and
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share their thoughts on Ukraine as they leave the country by train.
“Policymakers, military practitioners, and analysts should accept that attrition is a general characterization of war and warfare in which destruction is the primary method through which combatants pursue their political and military goals.”
Regardless of what Chinese leadership think they are learning about the benefits of naked aggression, the PLA lacks the necessary power to carry it out
Worrying that America's very real domestic problems weaken it internationally gets the problem backwards. Maybe America's very real overseas misconduct has weakened American democracy.
Leffler’s history lets these leaders off the hook by taking them at their word and depicting the Iraq War as a “tragedy” rather than an unforced blunder.
Much of the failure to learn the lessons of history for the de-Baathification program was due to the fact that the in-depth research done by the State Department and the CIA prior to the invasion of Iraq was ignored by the Department of Defense.
After returning from their latest trip to Ukraine, Mike Kofman (
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) and Rob Lee (
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) discuss Ukraine’s manpower issues and the trajectory of the conflict. Listen to their entire conversation here:
"It’s important to emphasize that we still don’t know much about how this ends, what the agreement was, and whether it will stick. It remains to be seen what will happen to Prigozhin and Wagner."
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If you really want peace, you can't be trapped into thinking that preparing for war, especially in a way that seeks dominance rather than defense, is the only thing that matters.
"As a nation, what we should acknowledge--for all of our sakes--is that many of Tim's ancestors fought long, hard, and maybe even bravely for an utterly evil cause."
“The reality of most emerging technology is that it requires people, and if the number of soldiers is reduced in one area, they are often displaced to other parts of the battlefield,” writes
@Jack_Watling
.
If the U.S. starts deploying some Trident missiles with a single low-yield warhead and others with multiple thermonuclear warheads, all on the same submarine, how will the adversary know what's coming its way?
The Chinese Communist Party is undertaking its most audacious effort yet at shaping international perceptions, looking to produce a soft power victory out of a pandemic of its own making.
In reading "Heart of Darkness," military and national security professionals should always be mindful that Kurtz is not just a fictional character he is a warning sign.
There are robust counterterrorism tools that the U.S. has employed for nearly two decades against Islamic extremists. Could they be similarly applied to white supremacist terrorism?
"In over one hundred interviews, emails, and texts with policymakers, analysts, and colleagues across the European continent, we have found universal shock and disappointment"
In May 2021, John Lechner argued that “analyzing the Wagner Group’s activities in the Central African Republic is useful not because it unveils Putin’s new strategic objectives, but rather because it reveals their limits.” Read in our archives.
All Americans, and especially those still serving in uniform, should acknowledge the singular contributions of the small group of Vietnam veterans who chose to stay and fix a broken and dispirited force
While Afghanistan was the global mecca for jihadist extremist groups, Ukraine has become the global mecca for white supremacy extremist groups to assemble, train in irregular warfare, radicalize, and develop transnational networks
Unfortunately, European states have long neglected their long-range strike capabilities, resulting in dangerous shortages and missile stockpiles that are not fit-for-purpose for 21st- century high-intensity war.
"Exceptional circumstances beget exceptional responses. While military officers have a general duty to obey civilian control, they also take an oath to protect the constitution."
Lee, Benning, Beauregard, Gordon, Rucker all fought to keep people from a different race as property. They do not deserve to be lionized by the successor to the Union Army.
Defense planners’ focus on short war scenarios and the commensurate development of a military built around exquisite high-tech platforms has opened the United States to potential strategic failure in conflict.