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    The US military would perform better if it was half its current size and budget. The Third Offset will fail because it is a technological solution to a strategic problem. ML Cavanaugh is a US Army Strategist, a Non Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point, and has served in assignments from Iraq to the Pentagon, and Korea to ...
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    Such episodes contribute to the perception that the military is increasingly entangled in political controversies, putting at risk its reputation for neutrality and undermining its broader mission. Perhaps no single event has done more to damage public trust than the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. What was meant to symbolize the ...
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    Although this has become the subject of controversy in recent months, a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author H.W. Brands explores a related but entirely more troubling case of blurred lines between military leaders and political authority. ... The scale of the US military's involvement in World War II had led to seven officers being ...
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    Published as the US military continues its transition from the post-9/11 wars to an era of great power competition, Moyn's book is a thought-provoking reflection on the evolution of ethical and legal considerations in the use of military force. Still, it poorly anticipates the ethical dilemmas that military officers will face today and tomorrow.
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    The US military flounders in the human domain of conflict, with respect to foes, friends, and bystanders alike. Failure to engage with the building blocks of humanity—culture, society, politics, economics, and religion—leaves our strategies and plans untethered to reality. The result has been on display to the world for decades.
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    The ongoing US-led interventions in Afghanistan and Syria offer compelling examples where opponents have leveraged proxy interference to deny American success and preserve regional interests. Unable to directly counter the external source, NATO and other coalitions have proven largely inept at blocking intervening actors and achieving lasting political and social stability.
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    The hasty passage of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) provided a legal blank check for these abuses, allowing President Bush—and subsequent administrations—to target al-Qaeda, ... gave the president controversial power to target those deemed a threat to national security even outside official war zones.
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    Erica De Bruin is an associate professor of government at Hamilton College, where her research focuses on civil-military relations, civil war, and policing, and is the author of How to Prevent Coups d'état: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival (Cornell University Press, 2020). The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the United States Military ...
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    In July, Ukrainian soldiers took to social media to voice complaints about training they received from US Army personnel in Germany. Chief among their criticisms was the seeming ignorance of commercial drone use on the battlefield. One soldier wrote, "The Americans have not participated in a serious war for a while now.Their army does not even have an analogue of the Chinese Mavik 3, it was ...
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    In June 2020, scenes unfolded on American television and social media of the National Guard mobilized to the District of Columbia in response to civil unrest. I was part of that mobilization. These were not scenes without precedent. In 1967, 1968, and 1992, the United States military quelled unrest in American cities.Following the 1967 riots, President Lyndon Johnson formed the National ...
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