Forrest Marion
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Terrorism
Entebbe and the Genesis of U.S. National Counterterrorism
Appropriately, several fine articles have remembered this year’s 50th anniversary of the Israeli Defense Force’s successful rescue of more than one...

U.S. Air Force
The 'Moral Imperative' Behind the Rescues in Iran
The writer gratefully acknowledges this powerful, clarifying phrase— moral imperative —as the title employed by noted air power historian, and a...

U.S. Space Force
Disciplined Delusion and the Lohmeier Hearing
For a bit of ancient history, it was four years ago this month when Lt. Col.

U.S. Space Force
The Decade+ Successes of SpaceX and U.S. Space Programs
In recent days, domestic terrorists have engaged in political violence against Elon Musk’s Tesla enterprise: torching cars, vandalizing dealerships,...

Military Personnel
Army Posts, History, and the Recruiting Crisis
Since about 2023 nine U. S.

Pentagon
Reducing Senior Officer Billet Bloat Requires Leadership
In December 1944, nearly a week into the Battle of the Bulge, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s utterly professional leadership succeeded – once he...

U.S. Air Force
Recommending Brig. Gen. Schwalier for the Air Force 'Plucking Board'
In the mid-1990s, Brig. Gen.

Terrorism
November 2024: Forty-Five Years of Tehran-Tied Terrorism
On November 4, 1979, Iranian students among other Islamic (Shia) revolutionaries attacked and took over the U. S.

Military Strategy
A Serious Pentagon Must Hold a 'Plucking Board'
On 1 September 1939 – the day Hitler invaded Poland to begin the Second World War – George C. Marshall officially took the reins as chief of staff of...

Military History
Remembering the U.S. Colored Troops at the 1864 Battle of Olustee
This month marks 160 years since a relatively unrecognized, but noteworthy, battle between Union and Confederate forces in which black soldiers...

In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense

Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZone
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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