In times of austerity, when governments are seeking to rein in spending, critics tend to target the expensive carriers as prime candidates for defense budget cuts. However, it would be…
General Joseph Dunford, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander, has recently told the New York Times that America’s “presence post-2014 is necessary for the gains we have made…
Shop the Entire Current Issue- The Integration of Regions || Return to The Integration of Regions index “Rebuilding the Malian military to an operational level means starting…
Over the past ten years, Israeli forces have interrogated, prosecuted, and/or imprisoned over 7,000 Palestinian children within the Israeli military justice system. Despite international pressure, the number of arrests…
Twelve years of ongoing military operations have strained the U.S. military significantly. With forces having left Iraq over a year ago and the gradual security transition in Afghanistan underway, the…
Shop the Entire Current Issue- The Future of Energy || Return to The Future of Energy index “The United States has killed Osama bin Laden and decimated…
Will America’s strategic rebalancing towards the Asia-Pacific region mean the gutting of the US Army? The concern is that the forms of warfare for which the United States has most…
In September 2007, employees of Blackwater, a private security firm, killed 17 unarmed civilians and wounded dozens more in Nisour Square, Iraq while accompanying a State Department convoy. The incident provoked…
Ten years after the United States invaded Iraq, nearly sixty percent of Americans now believe that the Iraq War was not worth fighting since it did not “enhance U.S.
