Are we witnessing a new form of naval confrontation, with escalating numbers of vessels converging to one static spot on the ocean? One that doesn’t involve fast charging and fast shooting so much as a floating standoff? A striking common feature of the recent China vs. U.S. confrontation off Yulin Island about ambiguous peactime oceanic […]
From the monthly archives:
April 2009
O.K.…here I go…you’re only going to hear this once (maybe), but this is a case when I would rather be wearing Dragon Skin that anything else. I’ve had several sources tell me that in response to the DoD IG report on armor testing the Army has decided to abandon HP White Labs and hire this […]
Our boy Greg Grant has an awesome scoop on DoD Buzz revealing key concepts in the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review. Clearly Gates has pushed the services to embrace an affliction of “this-war-itis” in forging a plan to build a military that can respond more effectively to unconventional threats. I’m a bit leery of abandoning the […]
This article first appeared in Defense Technology International. China has been developing and purchasing weapons for precision-strike warfare. This is the hard edge of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) doctrinal drive toward using increasingly sophisticated information technologies such as C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) to improve the capabilities of weapon systems. […]
Military.com Editor Ward Carroll had a great interview last Friday with president of the Center for a New American Security and former Army Lt. Col. John Nagl on counterinsurgency, Iraq mistakes and a look ahead at Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy. Here’s an excerpt of an article I wrote to accompany Ward’s podcast. One of the […]
