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Military History
The Kent State Shootings and Vietnam Fifty Years Later
Fifty years ago today, also a Monday in 1970, four students on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, were killed while protesting the...

U.S. Navy
Lessons on Leadership From the USS Theodore Roosevelt
The media-fed conflagration surrounding the removal of U. S.

Military History
The Right Lessons from Versailles 100 Years Later
One hundred years today, in the early afternoon of Saturday, June 28, 1919 , the Great War, as it was then called – later known as the First World War...

Military History
Drawing the Right Lessons From D-Day
This week marked the 75 th anniversary of D-Day, rightly commemorated as the largest seaborne invasion and most expansive combined sea-air-land...

Military History
Lessons from the Tragedy of Woodrow Wilson's War
Today is a historical marker of immense importance in American history: it is the centenary of American entry into the Great War, later known as the...

Terrorism
The Lessons From 9/11 for U.S. National Security
Where do we stand as a country, 15 years removed from the 9/11 attacks? In terms of national security and foreign policy, what has been the effect of...

Military History
Barbarossa and Its Lessons for the Living
75 years ago this morning at 0315 Central European Time, the valiant and ruthless German race was thrust into a war of annihilation against the Soviet...

The Unfinished Reform
By Mark W. Castillon • RealClearDefense
Winning the Data Advantage
By Turin Pollard • RealClearDefense
The Pentagon’s Quantum Race Needs a Warfighter’s Scorecard
By Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense
The F/A-XX and the AIM-260 Reclaim the Perimeter
By Bruce Allen Lubbering • RealClearDefense
Iranian Cyber Operations
By Michael Groen • RealClearDefense

Winning the Data Advantage
By Turin Pollard • RealClearDefense
The F/A-XX and the AIM-260 Reclaim the Perimeter
By Bruce Allen Lubbering • RealClearDefense
Winning the Data Advantage
By Turin Pollard, RealClearDefense
The F/A-XX and the AIM-260 Reclaim the Perimeter
By Bruce Allen Lubbering, RCD
F-22 Pilot Directs CCA in Flight as ‘Airborne QB’
By Stephen Losey, Air & Space Forces
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