by Elizabeth Deal | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
With the pivot to the Asia-Pacific region already in motion, the US military is restructuring its forces to better position for operations in a theater of oceans and islands. This shift in strategy comes after a decade of land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where there...
by Elizabeth Deal | Sep 21, 2012 | Monitor
Morocco, the United States’ oldest ally, was not immune to the fervor that swept the Islamic world last week. Protests broke out in front of the US consulate in Casablanca over the film The Innocence of Muslims, which ignited popular uproar in almost every country in...
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 Elizabeth Deal | Sep 5, 2012 | Monitor
The presentation to Pentagon officials last week of the Navy SEAL’s account of the Abbottabad raid has raised many questions as to how the operation was conducted and the moral implications of killing Osama Bin Laden. New controversy, however, has overshadowed the...
