At the Diplomat I revisit questions of institutional design and military effectiveness: Organizational infighting over naval aviation is common, and can have serious negative effects. The Luftwaffe, optimized for tactical and operational support of the Wehrmacht, never worked very well with the German Kriegsmarine, leaving...
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Channeling my inner Tom Friedman this morning. I'm convinced that a candidate willing to espouse the platform I set forth would immediately win a bipartisan mandate for reform... On rare.
For somewhat obscure reasons the Challenger disaster became, in the USA, what (much more understandably) the assassination of JFK had been for a previous generation: a shocking event whose symbolic.
My latest at WPR is about airpower, "savage war," and inter-service conflict: Nevertheless, assessments of the utility of airpower in counterinsurgency efforts have always been bound up in debates over the utility of airpower itself and over the importance of air forces as a separate...
This is simply wrong: One of the principal aspects that make the "weak presidency" claim so laughable is that the post-World-War II presidency has done virtually nothing but expand in.
Ezra makes a critical point:Paperwork gets lost. HR Departments are busy. People are between jobs for a few months, or they pressed submit but not "save." So they go uninsured.
I look forward for weeks to the moment each year when, in National Security Policy, I can hold forth on the stupidity of having both a Department of Homeland Security and and Department of Defense. Brought to you by Joe Lieberman, of course. We should...