A recent article by Greg Grant discussing the strategic vision of Frank Hoffman caught my eye. In it he notes that Hoffman warns against getting too hung up on China as the next “near peer” rival of the United States. Hoffman argues that the U.S. Navy needs to develop a “tri-modal” capability which would include [...]
The first indications of what the Democratic Party in Congress has in mind for the military are starting to become public. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) announced that he is calling for a 25% cut in the military budget. He believes that can be accomplished by getting out of Iraq much earlier than anyone is presently [...]
A sign that our Congress may be starting to retake its constitutionally mandated role of watching over the military is a particularly hard-hitting op-ed piece in the Washington Times by Republican Senator Richard Shelby. In it he described the Air Force acquisition program as full of politics with parochial interests taking priority over national defense. [...]
The New York Times ad by MoveOn.org portraying General Petraeus as potentially betraying America continues and threatens to exacerbate a trend that has developed over the past thirty years. Democrats have slowly, but surely, alienated themselves from the military. While words of “support for the troops” and “we are patriots, too” are all very likely true, the hard [...]
You might also be interested in this research paper I put together a while back on the influence of Congress on American naval policy.
http://inbody.net/docs/CongressNavyInbody.pdf
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