by William Chodkowski | Nov 1, 2012 | Monitor
On Tuesday, the FY2012 topline intelligence budgets in the form of the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and Military Intelligence Program (MIP) were released by the DNI and DoD, respectively. Though programming or line-item allocations remain classified for...
by William Chodkowski | Oct 26, 2012 | Monitor
The following excerpt is from a recent article by John Sullivan and Adam Elkus in Small Wars Journal: “[They address] entities with substantial firepower, intelligence, and political clout. Reducing violence as a strategy in order to create a new equilibrium...
by William Chodkowski | Oct 24, 2012 | Monitor
The Big New Push to Export America’s Gas Bounty Mark Scott/NY Times As one of the first United States companies to be granted an export license, Excelerate Energy is looking to capitalize on an American oil and gas boom that is reshaping the global energy markets....
by William Chodkowski | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
The Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986 is the recent piece of legislation most centrally important to the organization of contemporary national fighting force. Whereas the command structure centrally existed prior to the statute, Goldwater Nichols solidified the dual...
by William Chodkowski | Oct 15, 2012 | Monitor
A recent article authored by Foreign Policy’s Robert Zoellick sheds light on a disturbing contemporary trend: U.S. leaders’ unwillingness to tackle the macro-level issues of national stability and prosperity. Zoellick correctly implies that policymakers (as a whole)...
