I'm getting to this debate late, but my understanding of the situation (informed by Dima Adamsky's book, among others) is that revolution in military affairs (RMA) theory developed in the Soviet Union as a reaction to two trends. First, the Soviets determined (following the Yom...
Author: Robert Farley
I note that yesterday and today constitute the 196th anniversary of the burning of Washington, D.C. by the hated British. Since that time, not a single Anglican church has been.
Apologies for slow blogging; the beginning of the semester and my ongoing efforts to kill the Air Force (book!) take precedence. Some links: Derek Reveron on the growing military appreciation.
Huh: The win set a pair of season highs for the momentum-gaining Reds: It was their sixth straight, and it propped their lead to 3 1/2 games over the Cardinals in the National League Central. It also loosened up what, in one sense, had been...
Geoff Forden wrote a fantastic post on the technical challenges that the Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile system faces, and poses. Make sure to read the comments as well.
Huh: Lou Gehrig, a heroic slugger for the Yankees baseball team, was famed for brushing aside repeated fractures and batting after nearly being knocked unconscious, before giving his name to.
This is interesting for a couple of reasons: Nato and the United Nations are cautiously considering a Taliban proposal to set up a joint commission to investigate allegations of civilians being killed and wounded in the conflict in Afghanistan, diplomats in Kabul have told The...
In light of the news that Robert Gates will step down in 2011, I would like to announce my candidacy for the position of Secretary of Defense of the United.
I am slowly and not so surely pushing my way through this list, working forward chronologically. William Hazlitt's On Common-Place Critics is, in fact, quite fantastic. Now reading the Fitzgerald,.
This is the sixth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power, Andrew Bacevich Huang Yasheng, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics Walter Laqueur, The Last Days of Europe...
I'm not terribly interested in the project of calling Jeffrey Goldberg out as a propagandist; he's Jeffrey Goldberg, so of course he's a propagandist. As I suggested yesterday, I don't.
Michael Oren and Yossi Halevi: An Israeli assault could only delay Iran's nuclear program, not eliminate it. That's because Israel cannot sustain an air campaign against such remote targets for.