America s Pacific Strategy Needs an Update
Dominating air, sea, and space is not an end in itself. It is an intermediate step toward the ultimate goal of controlling or denying critical land.
Here s What You Need To Remember: In containing China, the U.S. military needs to fight smarter - with clear and actionable goals and enough strength to back them up.
The rise of China is the one overarching national security challenge for the foreseeable future, and it will be vital to continue maintaining stability in the Indo-Pacific region through deterrence measures. Complicating those efforts is the need to modernize and restructure the U.S. military.
5 Most Overrated Weapons of War (Nuclear Weapons Topped the List)
We very occasionally make veiled threats of the combat use of nukes, we often use nukes as diplomatic chips, and we certainly enjoy the deterrent umbrella than the strategic nuclear forces provide. But the weapons themselves haven’t helped us win a war since 1945, even then under arguable circumstances.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Nuclear weapons have, in an important sense, dominated international diplomacy for the last six decades. What they haven’t dominated is warfare, where they appear to be nearly useless in all configurations.
“Overrated” is a challenging concept. In sports, a player can be “great” and “overrated” at the same time. Future Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, for example, is quite clearly a “great” player, well deserving of the first ballot invitation he will likely receive. However, as virtually all statistically minded aficionados of the game ha
Underrated presidents don’t always remain underrated.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Some of these ratings are probably due to bias among historians, most of whom favor a decisive presidency - and don t think highly of the presidents, either Democrats or Republicans, who just want to keep things quiet.
He’s viewed as a kind of political laughing stock. People roll their eyes at the spectacle of this man carrying on a fifteen-year affair with his best friend’s wife. They snicker at the even more ludicrous spectacle of his White House liaison with a starry-eyed young woman named Nan Britton, thirty-one years his junior. They pursued their sexual trysts in a White House coat closet.
There’s decades of fantastic gadgets the military has chucked to the wayside to make way for newer material and some may have gotten the boot far too early.