September 11: From The Editor's Desk
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyI was editor of Defense News on Sept. 11, 2001. My son had been born just a few months earlier, that February. The first hint I had of anything untoward was a bizarre...
View ArticleHomeland Security Department: 'Colossal, Inefficient Boondoggle'
Filed under: Strategy & Policy This article marks the beginning of our examination of just what America's national security leaders should do next to secure our national security, 10 years after...
View ArticleObama Counterterror Strategy Takes U.S. In Wrong Direction
Filed under: Intel & CyberPresident Obama's new counterterrorism strategy reflects a profound misreading of the nature of the global transnational threat. If we follow this strategy for a few years...
View ArticleOsama May Be Dead But His Strategy Lives
Filed under: Intel & CyberThe elimination of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden from the world stage only months before the tenth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks was a major tactical success for...
View ArticleOne Man's Account of 911 At the Pentagon
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyEarly on the morning of September 11th, I had an appointment in the Pentagon with a senior Pentagon official. I got there a bit early, and parked just outside the...
View ArticleWe Spend Too Much On Defense
Filed under: Strategy & PolicyWashington, DC is echoing with a chorus of "sequester fear." It is an election year and the cacophony is deafening: sequester is a budgetary Pearl Harbor, a "doomsday...
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