2014-07-16 By Lieutenant General Ted F. Bowlds USAF (ret) To those who believe innovation inside the government, within the walls of the Pentagon bureaucracy is impossible, I am here to tell you it can happen. It requires only two ingredients. The first key ingredient is the entrepreneur, the innovator, and…
2014-07-09 By Robbin Laird When we wrote our book on Pacific strategy, a key element in considering how the key challenges facing the United States and its allies was how Japanese relationships with the US and the Pacific allies might evolve. The entire second section of our book deals with…
2014-07-08 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird Iraq is clearly in play. The ISIS are bent on the destruction of Iraqi Christians, and the Kurds are coming to their aide. Indeed, the Kurds have demonstrated a level of tolerance in Iraq not evident by other ethnic groups within Iraq itself.…
2014-07-10 by Ed Timperlake Debate over the type of response America should demonstrate against the fanatical Islamic killers called ISIS is cloudy, confused and murky in DC. This is especially true inside the Obama Administration. Vice President Biden early on wanted a three part geographic division of Iraq, Sunni, Shia,…
2014-07-07 By Richard Weitz Recent tests have seen progress for two key elements of the evolving missile defense system deployed by the United States and key allies. The first set of tests involve key elements for the new Ground Based Interceptor to be deployed in Alaska. And the second set…
2014-07-07 By Bill Jayne The battle for the future of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is shaping up as a typical D vs. R skirmish over money. The D's say that everything will be ok if the stingy R's just cough up…
2014-07-03 by Kenneth Maxwell On the eve of Ramadan, the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levent (Isis), an violently extremist jihadi group, having seized territory in both Iraq and Syria, tore down the boundaries between them, and established a Caliphate, a sovereign state, believed by many Muslims to be the inheritor of the…
2014-07-01 By Robbin Laird The response to Russia’s seizure of Crimea has been disbelief, denial or condemnation. The reality is that the Russians are a nationalistic power whose leader sees the post-Soviet order as illegitimate as many Germans saw the Versailles settlement after World War I. Clearly, Putin understands that…
