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by | Mar 25, 2024

“America is straying toward monstrous imprudence,” writes Naval War College strategy professor James Holmes in analyzing the Biden administration’s defense budget request for fiscal year 2025 in an important article in the National Interest. That is because, Holmes explains, “U.S….

by | Sep 19, 2023

Joint Force Quarterly, the premier journal of National Defense University (NDU) Press, has entered wokeland. The latest issue of the Quarterly features an article by Magdalena Bogacz, assistant professor at the Global College of PME at Air University, that argues…

by | Jul 23, 2023

The military has a recruiting problem the likes of which it hasn’t experienced in 50 years. For reasons domestic — a public that perceives its fighting forces to be focused on social engineering and progressive signaling while entry-level jobs abound…

by | Jul 10, 2023

In his long congressional career, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has occasionally been right, but not often. And when he isn’t right, he is explosively, extravagantly wrong. We have to remember that he was the late Sen. John McCain’s most worshipful…

by | Jun 28, 2023

In Cuba, the Biden administration is faced with another challenge to the Monroe Doctrine. Nearly 200 years ago, President James Monroe, at the urging of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, warned foreign powers that “we should consider any attempt…

by | May 9, 2023

The White House is currently deliberating on whether Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown or Marine Corps Gen. David Berger will replace Army Gen. Mark Milley as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Whoever is chosen will…

by | Apr 23, 2023

We’ve all become accustomed to the calming — almost soporific — euphemisms that arrived with space exploration back in the 1960s. The euphemisms went along with the smiling, stoic bravery of the astronauts. Everything was “nominal,” until it wasn’t. At…

by | Dec 13, 2021

The United States needs to abandon its longstanding “strategic ambiguity” regarding its likely response to a Chinese attack or invasion of Taiwan and replace it with “strategic clarity” in the form of a collective defensive East Asian-Pacific alliance with Japan,…

by | Nov 25, 2021

With two huge spending bills clearing the House of Representatives in the last two weeks and one of them being signed into law, one might think Congress would be out of new spending ideas or close to it. But even…

by | Jul 23, 2020

On Tuesday, United States Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett unveiled its new Arctic Strategy in response to the growing significance of the historically peaceful region. The approach will be a coordinated effort between the Air Force and the newly christened…

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