Pentagon Arctic Strategy Aims to Enhance U.S. Presence, Exercise More Often
The High North remains the “shortest and least defended threat sector” to the U.S., the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command said Tuesday.…
AP: Karzai ‘Welcomes’ Afghan Troop Withdrawal
Hamid Karzai welcomes the withdrawal of 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the next year, the Afghan president said in…
Funding Faults Threaten to Hollow Force
With the passage of the Budget Control Act (BCA) in 2011, Congress and the President set up a series of…
Opinion: Women in Combat is Old News
In a joint news conference on Thursday afternoon, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs announced…
Drafting Women?
The Pentagon announced yesterday it would end its official policy banning women from serving in ground-combat roles, opening an estimated…
USCG’s Adm. Papp on Arctic Operations and Caribbean Drug Runners
Even as the Coast Guard gets a grip on the Arctic, drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific are slipping through…
Defense Forum Washington Keynote: William Lynn
Peter H. Daly, CEO of the U.S. Naval Institute delivers opening remarks and William J. Lynn III gives the opening…
Combat Fleets: USS Enterprise
Proceedings, December 2012 In early November the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) returned home to Norfolk, Virginia, to prepare for her December…
The Asymmetric Nature of Cyber Warfare
Proceedings, Oct. 2012 How likely is it that a conflict between two combatants involving both kinetic and cyber operations would…