David Maxwell: National Security Blog

Information Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners (IINSTP) Georgetown Security Studies Review, An Information Based Strategy to Reduce Korea’s Increasing Threat, October 17, 2016. Georgetown Security Studies Review, NSCITF Report on Countering Violent Extremism, October 11, 2016. Chersicla, Rick, “Special Forces as Military Observers in Modern Combat,” September 18, 2016. Cleveland, Charles and David …

Robert Steele: Grand Strategy, Global Reality, & Re-Inventing US National Security Centered on Re-Inventing the US Army NEW: BOOK

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-GOARMY These are my personal views that do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense or any element thereof. It is my privilege have completed a three monograph series for the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), where I have been an External Researcher with several chapters and three monographs …

Review: The New Grand Strategy – Restoring America’s Prosperity, Security, and Sustainability in the 21st Century

A Few Gems, Too Little, Too Late, Not a Grand Strategy and Not Global By Any Stretch of the Imagination I was paying attention in 2009 when Wayne Porter and Mark Mykleby did their best for the Chairman, and was present when Brent Scowcroft, among others, listened to the Wilson Foundation “launch” of the book’s …

CounterPunch: Ambassador Chas Freeman on End of Empire (But First, Burn the National Security Council to the Ground)

The End of the American Empire Twenty-two percent of the world’s people are Muslim. Allowing bombing campaigns and drone warfare to define our relationship with them is a recipe for endless terrorist backlash against us. Phi Beta Iota: The article is most valuable for its complete shredding of the National Security Council, as great a …