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Contributors
– Tom Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute, discussing the notion of “anti-access, area-denial” military strategy in the cat-and-mouse game now being played by Beijing and Washington in the Pacific, on May 18.
We used to cover the machinations of the House and Senate armed services committees very closely. Of course, 30 years ago all we cared about was whether 180 or 240 F-16 jets would be ordered in next year’s budget (that’s all our readers at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where the plane is still being built, [...]
North Korea has reacted sharply to criticism over the weekend from the working G8 lunch at Camp David. “All of us agree that North Korea is violating its international obligations and that there is a path for them to rejoin the international community,” President Obama said. “But that objective will not be achieved if they [...]
– The amount the State Department spent – per student, per day – on anti-terror training in North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia in 2010 under its Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) program. But the State Department has not “developed specific, measurable, and outcome-oriented program objectives or implemented a mechanism for program evaluation,” [...]
Trash can be deadly. You can get a hint of that from the contract solicitation issued Tuesday by the Defense Logistics Agency’s European disposition office seeking “hazardous waste services in southwest Asia.” Lord knows, after a decade of war the U.S. military needs help getting rid of these deadly leftovers. The Pentagon made clear that [...]
Seems kind of strange that the U.S. government is turning over warships to the Philippine navy, but only after the vessels have been stripped of their weapons despite Manila’s request that they remain (better not tell the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Moro National Liberation Front, Abu Sayyaf, the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Jemaah Islamiyah or assorted [...]
– A post on his official Army blog from Major General Dana Pittard, who commands Fort Bliss in Texas. The comment has since been removed. h/t National Journal (sub. req.)
You can hear the suicide bomb that killed more than 100 Yemeni paramilitary troops detonate two seconds into this video. That’s a staggering death toll for an explosive-packed vest. The troops were either tightly packed around the bomber, or it was an especially nasty device. That’s in keeping with the work of Yemeni-based Ibrahim Hassan [...]
