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The Department of War has just executed the most ambitious acquisition reform in six decades. It scrapped JCIDS — the requirements process that ossified innovation for a generation; replaced program offices with portfolio executives, and built a Warfighting Acquisition System designed for speed.
The changes deliver on years of reform proposals. They also risk repeatin...
Tell the Russian people about the carnage in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Tell them about the Russian lives lost and the crushing financial cost of a five-year invasion of a sovereign nation. Former President Ronald Reagan ensured that he got information into the former Soviet Union to truthfully speak to the people about their government’s lies about the cost – in lives and m...
It was with alarm that I read the recent New York Times article reporting the regurgitation of a truly terrible idea that, like a bad meal, continues to come up every several years.
The Times reports that the Office of the ...
The collapse of Afghanistan in August 2021 is still widely interpreted as a military or political failure. That interpretation is incomplete.
Afghanistan collapsed because it lost the cognitive war long before it lost territory.
Inside the system, we did not face a simple insurgency. We faced a persistent contest over how reality was defined, how legitimacy was p...
Agent 711 was one of the most effective and least known spies in our nation's history. He used dead drops to communicate about enemy plans. He used secret chemical processes to create new forms of invisible ink. He spread disinformation to disguise his own troops' movements and confuse the enemy. The year was 1778. Agent 711 was George Washington. He was our nation's first s...