“It is time for a rethink of European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP)." (...) A new mission concept is needed as the methods that allowed a relative success in Bosnia are much less pertinent for the type of interventions the EU is presently involved in. The need is now for…
The 2009 Manufacturing Industry Study conducted by the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. concludes that U.S. manufacturing is "on the wrong side of an emerging inflection point, from which it may not be able to recover without concerted action."
Dick Kugler has recently published an interesting examination of the tough question of how one would deter a nuclear-armed Iran. He examines this from the standpoint of how the U.S. could spearhead an extended deterrent regime to deal with the emergence of a new nuclear power in the Middle East.
