As the U.S. national security establishment grapples with the change of the global environment from the post-Cold War U.S.-led unipolar world to a multipolar one, much of the investment of capital – fiscal and intellectual – has been on large scale combat operations between peer nations. Yet, if the past is prologue, much of the competition, and even conflict, between great powers will likely fall into the category of Irregular Warfare. How to approach the Irregular Warfare problem today presents significant challenges and great opportunities. In the DOD, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has much of the responsibility for the preparation of forces to conduct and execute Irregular Warfare (IW); its forces are purpose-built for this environment.
Summary: The Department of Defense uses obscure accounting to conceal its true cost from America's citizens, assisted by the mainstream press. Long-time DoD expert Winslow Wheeler shows the real cost for our War Department. Like all debunking of our mad military industrial complex since President Eisenhower warned us in 1961, he has been ignored. The…
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Democrats are trying to put the last nail in the coffin of the Budget Control Act of 2011, one of the few remaining semblances of fiscal restraint left in Washington.
As the 116th session of Congress began in January, Democratic leadership wanted to expand the pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget enforcement mechanism to include revenue reductions. Some newly elected House Members preferred to have no deficit-focused restraints whatsoever. This debate was resolved the way most fiscal disputes in Washington, DC, are resolved: by deciding that deficit control measures should be ignored for the sake of political expediency.