by Joshua Miller | Sep 19, 2013 | Monitor
By Joshua Miller Since the fall of the Berlin wall, the world has entered a radically different era than it once was in the 1950s. In the thick of the Cold War, the United States maintained an arsenal of over 10,000 nuclear warheads in a nuclear triad capability –...
by August Cole | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
Last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter visited U.S. allies in Asia, the latest emissary sent forth to reinforce the shift of U.S. military and diplomatic focus from the Middle East and Central Asia to the Pacific. “We in the United States are currently...
by Andrew Holland | Jan 8, 2013 | Monitor
For the U.S. military – and the U.S. economy as a whole – dependence on oil presents real threats to national security. Over the last five years, the U.S. Department of Defense has begun to act to reduce these energy security threats by helping to create alternatives...
by Elizabeth Deal | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
At the height of the Iraq War, the Department of Defense developed an emergency program of combat vehicles designed to protect troops from prevalent and highly destructive improvised explosive devices (IEDs). First fielded in 2007, the Mine-Resistant...
by ruston | Aug 3, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Complexity, Media, Public Diplomacy & Strategic Communication
by Scott W. Ruston The title of this post is my interpretation of what ADM James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and Commander of United States European Command (USEUCOM), says in a new TED Talk. To be fair, what he actually says is that...