President Obama today informed Afghan President Karzai that he has asked the Pentagon to ensure that it has adequate plans in place to accomplish an orderly withdrawal by the end of the year.
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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 02/25/2014 - 2:54pm | 1 comment
It does not take much vision to predict that Secretary Hagel and the Obama Administration’s FY2015 defense budget submissions are going to be the subject of bitter partisan criticism.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 02/25/2014 - 7:45am | 0 comments
Strategy is a form of communication; a message that you have the intentions and capabilities to impose your will, and the enemy cannot impose theirs.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 02/25/2014 - 7:33am | 5 comments
When the Obama Administration sends its proposed 2015 defense budget to Congress on March 4, two high-profile armored vehicle programs will be missing in action.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 02/25/2014 - 7:18am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 02/24/2014 - 11:02pm | 20 comments
The Navy’s Pacific Fleet chief of intelligence recently cemented his reputation for blunt assessments of China.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 02/24/2014 - 10:56pm | 0 comments
West Point's Combating Terrorism Center has released the February 2014 issue of the CTC Sentinel. It is a special issue on Africa.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 02/24/2014 - 4:51am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 02/24/2014 - 3:43am | 12 comments
Defense Secretary Hagel plans to shrink the U.S. Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 02/24/2014 - 3:21am | 0 comments
One of the four options President Obama is considering for a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan beyond this year would leave behind 3,000 troops.
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 02/23/2014 - 1:30pm | 0 comments
The A-10 might be around for a little while longer, after a tough-talking senator compelled the Air Force to keep the attack jet’s software up to date.
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 02/23/2014 - 4:41am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 02/22/2014 - 8:01pm | 0 comments
Thinking Critically: On “We Were Caught Unprepared” by Rich Ganske, The Bridge
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 02/22/2014 - 5:55am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 02/21/2014 - 6:23pm | 3 comments
As Army leadership ponders who and what to cut from its budget, the first groups in the crosshairs are the junior and mid-level officers.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 02/21/2014 - 4:01pm | 2 comments
“There’s a fundamental need to have a conversation about what kind of military we need to have and what we should expect it to do.”
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 02/21/2014 - 8:34am | 2 comments
... in light of Iraq and Afghanistan, the benefits of this doctrine are far more apparent…
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 02/21/2014 - 12:29am | 0 comments
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by Joe Byerly | Thu, 02/20/2014 - 4:00pm | 3 comments
Recently several lieutenants have written me to share their fears and anxieties about their own particular development as the tectonic plates of the Army and budgets continue to shift.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 02/20/2014 - 3:18pm | 0 comments
Not Your Grandfather's Insurgency - Criminal, Spiritual, and Plutocratic by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 02/20/2014 - 12:11am | 0 comments
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by George Fust | Wed, 02/19/2014 - 1:38pm | 3 comments
The guiding principle that can best reform or take an organization to the next level is efficiency.
by Robert Bunker | Wed, 02/19/2014 - 1:27pm | 0 comments
Strategic Horizons: All Options Bad If Mexico’s Drug Violence Expands to U.S. by Steven Metz, World Politics Review
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 02/19/2014 - 11:07am | 0 comments
There’s no talk of “victory,” or how the U.S. should spend its share of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, or how to use the peace dividend from a world made safe from Al Qaeda.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 02/19/2014 - 7:45am | 0 comments
Counterinsurgency Expert: We Need to Rethink How We Fight by Howard Altman, Tampa Tribune.