Drones and Apaches Are the Army’s New Aerial Scouts - And Not Everyone Is Thrilled by David Axe, War is Boring
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Video Podcast: Counterinsurgency in Crisis at War on the Rocks.
The U.S. military is slated to shed 150,000 soldiers. Can it still go to war with so few?
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British defense cuts mean the country can no longer be a full military partner of the United States, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned.
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Studying War and Warfare by Major General H.R. McMaster, War Council
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Mexican security forces sent to quell unrest in the western state of Michoacan have started disarming local vigilante groups, state officials say.
US Special Operations in PACOM, Special Warfare Magazine
Hong Kong Triads Work with Mexican Drug Lords on Methamphetamine by Brian Harris, South China Morning Post.
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen, reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs.
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Iraq’s High-Stakes Struggle - Council on Foreign Relations Interview With Jane Arraf, Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor and Al Jazeera, Baghdad. Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman.
Voice The Decay of the Profession of Arms by Major Matthew Cavanaugh, Foreign Policy’s Best Defense.
Stop the presses: Robert Gates has a revealing memoir that provides penetrating new insights into how Washington works.
"Robert Gates’s tenure running the Pentagon might go down as the greatest performance in acting history."
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The authors urge the U.S. to revisit the concept of hemispheric defense and develop and execute a new military strategy that will help maintain stability and prosperity in Latin America.