Friday, February 7, 2014

A Few Recent Selections

I have a long list of articles I want to discuss at length. I've been busy with a few other projects lately, so in lieu of some of those articles, here are some of the items I've been attempting to keep abreast of lately.

China
  • Perception outweighs ability as China builds blue-water fleet - News - Stripes
  • China Thinks It Can Defeat America in Battle

    Equipment
  • PONI Live Debate: Triad Modernization | Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Saving the Kiowa
  • SecDef Should Crack Whip On Cyber, Drones, & Training Foreigners | Small Wars Journal
  • Connecting Air Support Acquisitions and National Strategy | Small Wars Journal
  • US Plans Radical Upgrade of Stryker Brigades
  • Trouble Brewing Between US Army's Active Duty and Guard Forces
  • Is Precision the Future of CAS?
  • Army Modernization Is Melting Down
  • $1B in Air Force cargo planes sent to boneyard get new missions - U.S. - Stripes
  • Bring on the Countermeasure Drones
  • The Navy’s Getting a Big, Secretive Special Operations ‘Mothership’

    Security
  • CSIS: Considering the Caucasus Emirate Chemical Attack Threat to Sochi

    Strategy
  • Speaking of the Long War
  • French Counterterrorism in the Sahel
  • Is War Too Important to be Left to Social Scientists?
  • Counterinsurgencies and Deterrence
  • Lessons From Previous Competitive Strategies
  • Peace, Art and … Special Operations
  • Does America Have Any Naval Strategists Anymore?
  • Failure to Learn: Reflections on a Career in the Post-Vietnam Army
  • Five Questions with Steven Metz on U.S. Landpower
  • Learning Large Lessons from Small Wars
  • Lessons Observed on Lessons Observed: IEDs, Advising, and Armor
  • The misuse of American might, and the price it pays
  • Army Presses Case for Relevance of Ground Forces (UPDATED)

    Gulf Region
  • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the "Clash within a Civilization"
  • 191 Nepalis died in Qatar last year - Kuwait Times | Kuwait Times
  • Qatar: Syria rebels' tiny ally in the background
  • The Geneva Joint Plan Of Action: How Iran Sees It (1)
  • America Must Assuage Saudi Anxiety - NYTimes.com
  • Oman orders NASAMS air defense system

    Afghanistan
  • Pakistani Unconventional Warfare Against Afghanistan
  • Taking Tea with the Taliban
  • Why U.S. troops must stay in Afghanistan

    Other
  • WW1 soldier diaries placed online by National Archives
  • Deer 'pose biggest threat' to Scotland's native woodlands
  • Hard Fighting: Israel in Lebanon and Gaza | RAND
  • This Is How the World Could Have Ended
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