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Book Review: Sierra Hotel 26 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam, by C.R. Anderegg, covers the history of tactical air power (particularly fighter aircraft) from the Vietnam War until the early 198...
Did the Goldwater Nichols Act cripple the art of strategy? 22 Aug 2013 | 09:38 am
Senator Barry M. Goldwater and General David C. Jones James Locher's Victory on the Potomac The recent debate over potential U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific region is a welcome change from the pa....
AirSea Battle: Colby v. Hammes (Continued) 15 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
My friends Bridge Colby and T.X. Hammes are continuing to fight out their superbly argued sides on the AirSea Battle front, Colby making points similar to the one's I've made in this space but doing s...
Try This One Weird Trick to Cut Organizational Redundancy! 15 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
Over at Medium: War is Boring, I take another unhinged screed at the Air Force: With the Iraq War over and the fighting in Afghanistan winding down,why does the United States need to maintain two lar...
At What Price, Another Round of Real Carrier Choices 6 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am
Sea Control Ship CVV medium carrier design CVN-78 class It seems that whenever defense budgets shrink, the big deck aircraft carrier becomes a principle target of budget cutters and technolog...
21st Century Mahan 5 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
I recently had an opportunity to read 21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era by Benjamin Armstrong. Below is the official book description on Amazon. Alfred Thayer Mahan's ...
Foreign Entanglements: The Myths of AirSea Battle 3 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Bryan and I spoke about his recent War on the Rocks post about AirSea Battle: In particular, we give attention to whether ASB should be regarded as an...
Links of Note... 30 Jul 2013 | 09:32 pm
Some thoughts on airpower over at the Diplomat: A recent University Press of Kentucky edited volume, The Influence of Airpower Upon History, attempts to evaluate to impact of airpower since the begin...
Piracy, Privateering, and Para-Navies 30 Jul 2013 | 07:21 am
Puntland’s pirate gangs have run out of luck lately with practically no successful attacks on the now well-defended merchants plying the Indian Ocean. So like many of their free-booting predecessors ...
Sinking an Entire Navy 29 Jul 2013 | 07:09 pm
David Axe has an interesting blog post up entitled How to Sink an Entire Navy on the War is Boring Blog. It is a short read but full of information, and from it, a few things stand out to me: Profes...
