Washington Post – The Army likes to brag that it’s got a significant navy of its own — even if there isn’t a destroyer or aircraft carrier in it.
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Royal Navy – Navy would struggle to fight a war
Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy can no longer fight a major war because of years of under funding and cutbacks, a leaked Whitehall report has revealed.
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Geopolitics – A Disciplined Defense: How to Regain Strategic Solvency
Foreign Affairs – The United States now spends almost as much on defense in real dollars as it ever has before — even though it has no plausible rationale for using most of its impressive military forces. Why? Because without political incentives for restraint, policymakers have lost the ability to think clearly about defense policy. Washington’s new mantra should be “Half a trillion dollars is more than enough.”
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Afghanistan – In Counterinsurgency Class, Soldiers Think Like Taliban
Wall Street Journal – An inside look at the US Army’s new Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Academy.
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US Navy – China blames U.S. for denial of ship visit to Hong Kong
New York Times – China blocked the visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group and other American warships to Hong Kong last week in retaliation for the Bush administration’s proposed upgrading of Taiwan’s Patriot antimissile batteries, the state media reported Thursday.
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