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A General Gets Knifed

The Obama administration's infighting suddenly goes public.

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Shane Harris, Noah Shachtman
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Did the regimental system optimize the British army for small wars? And what does that all mean for today’s U.S. Army?

Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks
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Fix the U.S. government by networking

Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks
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Gellman vs. Lewis on leaks vs. security

Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks
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Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week: Night Ops in Bagram with Tex

Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks
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The Army Is Shrinking Down to the Bone! Or Is It?

The Sheathed Sword
Gordon Adams
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Fall from grace: Hoss Cartwright, a target; The Validation of Evelyn Farkas; Biden calls a meeting on Syria; Marcel Lettre to advise policy, temporarily; Sonenshine to GW; and a bit more.

Situation Report
Gordon Lubold
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The NSA Can’t Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner

That's why it sucks up information on everyone.

Investigation
Shane Harris
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The U.S. Senate Wants to Control Malware Like It’s a Missile

The Complex
John Reed
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500 years from now, will history remember the USSR primarily as an ally of the United States?

Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks
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Is Syrian-related violence the beginning of the Muslim world’s Thirty Years’ War?

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Thomas E. Ricks
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From the Best Defense mailbag: Barry’s book on WW II battalion commanders

Best Defense
Thomas E. Ricks
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Sheehan, leaving the Pentagon; U.S. to send assistance to Lebanon?; Did Snowden want to shoot leakers in their [private parts]?; Duckworth, fired up; SecDef is wheels up; Hagel has Rice for dinner; and a bit more.

Situation Report
Gordon Lubold
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Don’t Call It Isolationism

America's not retreating -- it's just going undercover.

Gordon Adams
Gordon Adams
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Call Off The Drone Wars? Air Force Paying $225K Bonuses to Fighter Jocks

The Complex
John Reed

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A General Gets Knifed

Did the regimental system optimize the British army for small wars? And what does that all mean for today’s U.S. Army?

Fix the U.S. government by networking

Gellman vs. Lewis on leaks vs. security

Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week: Night Ops in Bagram with Tex

The Army Is Shrinking Down to the Bone! Or Is It?

Fall from grace: Hoss Cartwright, a target; The Validation of Evelyn Farkas; Biden calls a meeting on Syria; Marcel Lettre to advise policy, temporarily; Sonenshine to GW; and a bit more.

The NSA Can’t Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner

The U.S. Senate Wants to Control Malware Like It’s a Missile

500 years from now, will history remember the USSR primarily as an ally of the United States?

Is Syrian-related violence the beginning of the Muslim world’s Thirty Years’ War?

From the Best Defense mailbag: Barry’s book on WW II battalion commanders

Sheehan, leaving the Pentagon; U.S. to send assistance to Lebanon?; Did Snowden want to shoot leakers in their [private parts]?; Duckworth, fired up; SecDef is wheels up; Hagel has Rice for dinner; and a bit more.

Don’t Call It Isolationism

Call Off The Drone Wars? Air Force Paying $225K Bonuses to Fighter Jocks

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