List of Military articles
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1-502 ‘Blackhearts’ (I): A view from the inside
There is more to the story that has remained in the shadows for too long.
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FT. MEADE, MD - UNDATED: (FILE PHOTO) This undated photo provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. The NSA has been secretly collecting the phone call records of millions of Americans, using data provided by telecom firms AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, the newspaper USA Today reported on May 11, 2006. (Photo by NSA via Getty Images) Trump Elevates Cyber Command
The long-awaited move bolsters the authority of the chief of America’s military hackers.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 09: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with members of the airline industry at the White House February 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump held a listening session with the group to advance issues relative to the airline industry. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Inside Trump’s Tortured Search for a Winning Strategy in Afghanistan
Can Trump close the deal in Afghanistan?
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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 16: National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster answers questions during a press briefing at the White House May 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. McMaster defended the President Donald Trump's decision to share intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during an Oval Office meeting last week. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Thoughts on General McMaster and on withdrawing from Afghanistan and Vietnam
As McMaster and the national security staff pursue possible solutions to the president’s “competing impulses” on Afghanistan, reviewing the historical record indeed might help infuse some added wisdom into our current foreign policy there.
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A U.S. Soldier with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment walks to a joint district community center after securing combat outpost Rajankala in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan Nov. 26, 2009. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Francisco V. Govea II, U.S. Air Force/Released) I was a U.S. Army officer, but nowadays, America feels like a foreign country to me
In 2010, I deployed to Wardak province, Afghanistan, as a scout platoon leader.
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32351721173_56048f84a4_k Mid-career thoughts: After a decade or so, of war, you begin to wonder if it’s worth it
The wars go on. I increasingly see a weary cynicism in my Air Force peers, and indeed in myself.
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f_troop_opening You aren’t wrong: Our military officers actually seem to be getting stoopider
That the military needs intelligent officers is not a particularly controversial statement. Underpinning that argument, however, is the assumption that the military normally recruits, recognizes, and retains its intellectual capital.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - OCTOBER 1: Col. Steve Warren, the new spokesman for the US-led coalition in Iraq, speaks during an introduction of Let. Gen. Sean MacFarland s the new commander General of the US led coalition in Iraq on October 1, 2015 in Baghdad, Iraq. MacFarland is a three-star general in the United States Army. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed-Pool/Getty Images) Pentagon Forces Out Popular Press Spokesman
Press relations take a turn for the worse at the Pentagon.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani reacts to a standing ovation at the conclusion of his address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress March 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. Ghani told members of Congress his country owed the United States a 'profound debt' for the more than 2,300 U.S. soldiers who have died to 'advance the cause of freedom'. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) In Afghanistan, Reform Can’t Come Fast Enough
The Ghani government is embarking on an ambitious plan to combat corruption and incompetence. It’s going to need America’s help.
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confederate_rebel_flag-svg Time to follow Gen. Buckner’s example and pull down that Confederate flag
I know that flag means something to many white Southerners. But it means something very different to many black Americans, and to many others, such as myself.
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thure_de_thulstrup_-_l-_prang_and_co-_-_battle_of_gettysburg_-_restoration_by_adam_cuerden Mission command is not a software!
Tom posed the important general question of what to do when a subordinate commander fails to execute the commander’s clear intent under mission command orders.
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A Navy pilot’s take: The Air Force doesn’t have a pilot crisis, it has a leadership crisis
The United States Air Force is facing a crisis, seemingly a recent one, which will define the service for decades to come.
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sherman_sea_1868 What the railroad and Civil War might tell us about our military leadership today
In the years before the Civil War, as we were discussing the other day, the United States was transformed by the railroad and the telegraph.
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13inmortaronrailcarnearpetersburg What might the railroad and Civil War tell us about our networked nation today?
I picked up a book about “Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America” because I wondered if there is an analogy to the internet in that.
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plunger_ss2_renamed_a1-_port_bow_moored_beside_the_shark_ss8_1902_-_nara_-_512925 An old salt picks his 4 favorite American admirals — and explains why (IV): Nimitz
All my "greats" were deep into technology and its relation to tactics.
