Chuck Hagel, who’s had some experience avoiding dumb wars, was strikingly confident about U.S. military plans against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in an interview Tuesday with the BBC. “We are…
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Attacking Syria: Mission (All but) Impossible
August 27, 2013 • In the News • Original: National Journal
Are Federal Furloughs The New Normal?
August 26, 2013 • In the News • Original: WAMU
Last March Congress let the budget axe fall and with it federal agencies lost more $80 billion in funding. For federal employees budget cuts translated into furloughs. Agencies decreed a…
Surrounded: How the U.S. Is Encircling China with Military Bases
August 20, 2013 • In the News • Original: Foreign Policy
The refurbished airfields also hearken back to the Cold War era, when American units were constantly rotated in and out of Europe to keep the Soviets at bay. To counter…
Reshaping for Tomorrow
August 20, 2013 • In the News • Original: Air Force Magazine
The US military services need to take advantage of the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review to carve out new, forward-looking missions or risk becoming simply smaller—and increasingly irrelevant—versions of themselves, according…
China Precision Strike
August 15, 2013 • In the News • Original: Washington Times
China’s military is building conventional precision-guided missiles in an effort to become Asia’s “hegemon” and force the U.S. military to operate thousands of miles from China’s coasts, according to a…