In the News
Army Advances Plan to Cut 40,000 Troops by a Year to 2017
The U.S. Army is speeding up by a year plans to reduce its active-duty force to 450,000 from the current 490,000, according to Pentagon documents.
In the News
Do Marines Have To Hitchhike At Sea? The Real Story
WASHINGTON: Is the US Navy really so short of warships that Marines must catch a ride on foreign vessels, like heavily armed hitchhikers?
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Russia’s New Nuclear Submarines to Target U.S. Aircraft Carriers
Russia is designing “carrier killer” nuclear submarines, local media is reporting.
Analysis
America’s Precision Strike Advantage
Mark Gunzinger and Bryan Clark discuss their recently-released report, Sustaining America’s Precision Strike Advantage, with Vago Muradian on Defense News
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No More Easy Victories for the U.S. Military?
Last week, in a speech delivered to a Rand Corp. audience in Washington D.C., U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work preached his usual sermon about the slipping technological edge of the United States military and the growing danger posed by effective countermeasures to the American Way of War primarily based on precision-strike regimes (see: “The End of the American Way of War?”).
In the News
Aegis Ambivalence: Navy, Hill Grapple Over Missile Defense Mission
WASHINGTON: Sometimes success is its own punishment. Shooting down ballistic missiles is one of the Navy’s most high-tech, high-profile capabilities — and it’s one of the most popular with Congress as well.
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