I’m attending a conference at the National Defense University on China’s naval modernization, a subject which I’m very interested in, for much of the day today. At the naval strategy forum in Newport earlier this month, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead disputed Robert Kaplan’s claim made in the pages of Foreign Affairs that […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2010
I thought the best panel at CNAS’s annual conference on national security last week, videos can be found here, featured SOCOM commander Adm. Eric Olson, CSBA’s Jim Thomas, CNAS’ John Nagl and Brookings’ Peter Singer discussing a future force for future wars. CSBA’s Thomas, who authored the 2006 QDR, said the ongoing debate over the […]
Reports are that the next commandant of the Marine Corps will be career aviator Gen. James Amos; a surprise pick, many thought Joint Forces Command’s Gen. James Mattis had it locked (RUMINT says Mattis’ opposition to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell sunk him). If named as the next CMC, Amos will be taking over a […]
One of RAND’s bigger brains, Greg Treverton, has an excellent new paper that takes the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, and comes up with the policy implications now that might shape that future. Money section on the emerging post-Iraq defense policy debate: “In the context of economic pressure, there will be […]
The offensive planned for this summer to clear and hold Kandahar city will now be delayed until the fall, Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal tells the Financial Times. The delay will give commanders time to evaluate what went wrong in Marja where a major offensive earlier this year failed to secure the area from Taliban […]
