Well, I’ll be … After reporting ont he Army’s perpetual problem with breakage (see Scales’ Lament, below), it seems that Fox News is reporting we were wrong. The Army is just fine.
U.S. Army Isn’t Broken After All, Military Experts Say
I may refrain from jumping on the band wagon just yet. By the way, I had [...]
Thought this one was worth posting. Looks like General Chilton might be coming around to a warfighter’s view of space. Not a bad thing to have happen to a former Shuttle astronaut now in charge of the nation’s Strategic Command. And Mike Vickers always knows what he is talking about.
The New Art of War By [...]
Jeremy Hsu of Imaginova penned an article for Space News: “Space Arms Race Heats up Overnight.” A few choice bits (my emphases):
“It was an unfortunate choice by the United States that seems to have been unnecessary. The fact is that satellites fall from space all the time and the risk of it was fairly minimal,” [...]
It doesn’t get any better than this. Whyis the Navy going to shoot down an inoperable American spy satellite? Lots opf reasons come to mind, very few of which jive with the official version that it is an issue of pubic safety. Our friend Jim Oberg has, as usual, the most scientifically sound and logical responses–but [...]
The following appeared in Of Interest, a Strategic Studies Institute publication, 8 November 2007. There is mch to like, and as much to dislike:
THE STRATEGY OF TEACHING STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Gabriel Marcella
The U.S. Army War College Experience.1
There is nothing equal to the intellectual delights of mutual discovery via the Socratic give-and-take [...]
Our friend in Washington is the de facto interim editor. I am publishing his quick take on the Scales article preceding as I received it–a great read:
Well, there he goes again. Here’s another propaganda piece (attached) from Bob Scales concerning the need for the nation to concentrate on how to perform close combat better—and get [...]
AMERICAN INFANTRY AND NATIONAL PRIORITIES
Armed Forces Journal December 2007
By Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales (Ret.)
The progress of war, like other forms of human endeavor, is defined in terms of epochs, cycles of periodic change that sweep through and shape the course of Western civilization. Political scientists recount the advance of governance in terms of theocracy, [...]
Here’s a penetrating strategic assessment on Iraq by Bartle Bull (of Prospect). Bull’s essay, “Mission Accomplished,” is long, but it’s reasoned, articulate, and extremely well-supported. I’m serving it up here on astropolitics.org blog not to open an argument about the Iraqi question, but to offer a quality litmus test to those Iraq-focused strategists [...]
This was posted on IntelliBriefs Blogspot a few days ago. The tag line is superb: “Strategy is to process as Clausewitz is to a PowerPoint.” Read on …
The executive summary of a report by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General was declassified and released on Tuesday. Originally published in 2005, the report states that [...]
There appear to be as many definitions of strategy as there are legitimate strategists. The following is a list of better known Formal Definitions of Strategy:
Simplistic:
“… the art of making war on a map.” Baron de Jomini
“… the art of the dialectics of will that use force to resolve their conflict.” Andre Beaufre
“A system of [...]