Is Leon Panetta the Right Man to be Secretary of Defense?
Winslow Wheeler. TIME Battleland, 13 December, 2011. http://defensealt.org/HsDI1j Excerpt: Without the inclusion of war spending, the DOD base budget under the “Doomsday Mechanism” is no longer at or...
View ArticleObama Makes Arms Sales A Key Tool Of U.S. Foreign Policy
Loren Thompson. Forbes, 2 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/KAX3B7 Excerpt: In a striking departure from the ideological preferences of the post-Vietnam Democratic Party, President Barack Obama has...
View ArticleNo Need for All These Nukes
Philip Taubman. New York Times, 08 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/ylGVmd Excerpt: If the president pushes back against the defenders of the old order at the Pentagon and other redoubts of the...
View ArticleKey Risks in the New Defense Guidance: What Kind of War and Where?
Nathan Freier. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 17 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/KAW4AS Excerpt: Like any change in strategy, however, the new approach has risk embedded in it. One...
View ArticleSequester Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
DefenseTracker.com, 18 January 2012. http://defensetracker.com/web/?p=1681 Excerpt: Part of the “Doomsday Mechanism” hysteria spread by Defense Secretary Panetta and his comrade in the budget wars,...
View ArticlePentagon Resource Wars: Why They Can’t Be Avoided
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. National Defense, 20 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/H8o8I8 Excerpt: When crises fade and wars end, the services, ever focused on the resource war, fight to ensure the...
View ArticleRegaining Our Balance: the Pentagon’s New Military Strategy Takes a Small Step
Christopher Preble and Charles Knight. Huffington Post, 20 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/ysCbHQ Excerpt: Balance depends on what you are standing on. With respect to our physical security, the...
View ArticleVimy Paper 2012: The Strategic Outlook for Canada
Paul Chapin and George Petrolekas. CDA Institute, February 2012. http://defensealt.org/xSKPtu
View ArticleTruth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis. Armed Forces Journal, February 2012. http://defensealt.org/zjV1gq Excerpt: I first encountered senior-level equivocation during a 1997 division-level “experiment” that turned...
View ArticlePentagon hides $3 billion in budget accounting maneuver
Josh Rogin. Foreign Policy, 15 February 2012. http://defensealt.org/zJViH0 Excerpt: The Pentagon’s new budget request moves $3 billion of military pay and benefits out of the base budget into the war...
View ArticleKhamenei: The Nuclear Decision-maker
Alireza Nader. RAND, 23 February 2012. http://defensealt.org/zXmokM Excerpt: Khamenei is not an irrational actor… His possible intent in developing a nuclear weapons capability almost certainly is not...
View ArticleNo Matter Republican or Democrat in the White House, More Military Budget...
Charles Knight, commentary, 24 February 2012. The Pentagon, the Obama administration, and many members of Congress hope that cuts to the defense budget stop with those mandated in the first stage caps...
View ArticleHow to Pay for Wars
Benjamin H. Friedman and Charles Knight. The National Interest, 6 March 2012. http://defensealt.org/y7oMHq Excerpt: A war tax or an effective cap on war spending can serve as a disincentive to reckless...
View ArticleThe Military Imbalance: How The U.S. Outspends The World
Winslow Wheeler. AOL Defense, 16 March 2012. http://defensealt.org/AxrAFS Excerpt: The US defense budget is not just dominant; it is operating at a level completely independent of the perceived...
View ArticleA New Challenge for Our Military: Honest Introspection
David Rothkopf. Foreign Policy, 19 March 2012. http://defensealt.org/GSUypF Excerpt: Certainly there has been national debate about whether we should have been involved in those wars, one that has...
View ArticleThrowing Money at the Pentagon: A Lesson in Republican Math
William Hartung. Foreign Policy in Focus, 26 March 2012. http://defensealt.org/HsgyYJ Excerpt: Romney’s proposal implies that the Pentagon is essentially an entitlement program that should receive a...
View ArticleThe Future of Irregular Warfare
Seth G. Jones. RAND, 27 March 2012. http://defensealt.org/HzvPUo Excerpt: By early 2012, there were approximately 432,000 counterinsurgency forces in Afghanistan – approximately 90,000 U.S. soldiers,...
View ArticleThe Politics of Fleet Constitution
Galrahn. Information Dissemination, 27 March 2012. http://defensealt.org/GY5CjA Excerpt: The Navy has put 7 cruisers up for early retirement. Keep in mind that all 7 cruisers put up for early...
View ArticleTime to get U.S. nukes out of Europe
Stephen M. Walt. Foreign Policy, 18 April 2012. http://defensealt.org/Ifat2Q Excerpt: There’s an overwhelming case for removing these archaic and unnecessary weapons from the European continent....
View ArticleOn the hook in Afghanistan for at least another decade
Philip Ewing. DoD Buzz, 23 April 2012. http://defensealt.org/Ic1h0p Excerpt: Washington had no good choices on Afghanistan. The White House probably hopes its agreement will give enough distance that...
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