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.
Last month, I wrote that the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) recent militarization attempts cannot be sustained due to budgetary and institutional limitations, its inability to achieve strategic parity with…
Now that the French have retaken all the major cities in Mali, the focus of the international community shifts to the future, and to what is next for Mali. One…
Over the past few weeks, a great deal has been written concerning the use of drones (UAVs) by the American military in theaters including, but not limited to, Yemen, Afghanistan,…
In a recent article, David Wood expresses concern over the start of a drone arms race, with China’s People’s Liberation Army beginning to adopt drone technology and Iran possibly…
On January 25th, Marine General James Mattis, the commander of CENTCOM (Central Command), was fired by President Obama. Mattis’s dismissal warrants attention not only because media pundits and…
