The Slippery Slope of SLEP
08/02/2011
By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the USAF 08/02/2011 - Going backwards in a stringent budgetary environment makes no strategic sense.
Sacrificing Sovereignty at Sea
08/02/2011
By James Jay Carafano 08/02/2011 - America's sovereignty is threatened by cutting USCG assets.
The National Security Cutter Opportunity
08/02/2011
The National Security Cutter is a key asset for the both the security and defense missions of the USCG. It is a floating command post which can tap into national and coalition assets to protect the nation. The USCG needs a minimum of 8 NSCs and as the US re-shapes…
Emerging Alliances for the 21st Century, Part VII
07/31/2011
07/31/2011 - The emergence of an agile regional and global actor.
Emerging Alliances, Part VI
07/26/2011
By Douglas Farah 07/26/2011 - FARC alliances and actions offer an important look at the use of non-state criminal/terrorist armed groups by a criminalized state.
The Need for a Reinvigorated “Revolt of the Admirals”
07/25/2011
By Vince Martinez 07/25/2011 - The struggle for senior defense officials is often in taking tangible lessons from war and applying them directly toward the acquisitions, planning programming and budgeting, and requirements generation systems.
Emerging Alliances, Part V
07/22/2011
By Douglas Farah 07/22/2011 - The drug trade increases by orders of magnitude the economic resources available to criminal operatives and their allies.
The 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force (EMTF): A Unique Global Insertion Force
07/22/2011
In late June 2011, Second Line of Defense visited McGuire Air Force Base and was briefed on the 621st Contingency Response Wing resident to the 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force. This unique asset operates globally to create airfields on demand to support the USAF’s ability to insert force worldwide in…