Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks’ daily take on national security.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History:
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Snap contest: What was Centcom’s password until yesterday afternoon?
They've probably changed it since the hack.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A North Waziristan reading list
I find the narrower the subject, often the better the list.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week: Fraternité, France’s K-9 Teams
Rebeccca Frankel offers solidarity for French K-9 forces in light of this week's terrorist attacks in France.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What role does the National Guard play in inflating the numbers of our generals?
Best Defense guest columnist investigates the role of the National Guard in inflating the number of generals.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tom reviews Moten’s ‘Presidents and Their Generals’ in new Jrnl of Mil Hist
Tom Ricks reviews Matthew Moten's Presidents and Their Generals.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The New York Times Iraq bookshelf, and an unusual list from Andrew Bacevich
Tom Ricks offers a reading list on Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iraqi impasses (2): Sunni side up
The prevalence of rejectionism in Iraq has encouraged insecurity and helped it breed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Renehan’s ‘The Valley’: A fine new novel about one outpost in the Afghanistan War
A review of John Renehan's The Valley, a new novel about one outpost in the Afghanistan War.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Paris attack: One way to respond
I think every decent newspaper, website and magazine in the world should commission and run a new cartoon or satirical piece on Al Qaeda.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is military service an answer to inequality?
Ben Luxenberg, a former Marine officer now at Harvard Business School, thinks so.
