Thomas W. Spoehr, a retired Army lieutenant general, is director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation.
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Wednesday, Aug. 24, marks six months since the start of the Russian-Ukraine war. It is also, by a strange twist, Ukraine’s Independence Day, when Ukrainians… Read More
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Chances are if you one of the small number of Americans who know about the national security threat from electromagnetic pulse, you have Peter Pry,… Read More
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The Army is falling far short of its 2022 target end strength, the maximum number of personnel permitted by Congress in each military service. A… Read More
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Only one bill in Congress reliably makes it into law every year: the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. The NDAA has passed for 62… Read More
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Military readiness appears to have suffered yet another setback in the name of “equity.” Earlier this month, responding to a Virginia lawsuit, the Department of… Read More
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Tuesday marks the 247th birthday of the U.S. Army, an institution that existed even before the nation it supports. The Revolutionary War began in April… Read More
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Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In today’s… Read More
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Since the transition to an all-volunteer force in 1973, there have been years when the military services missed their recruiting goals. These include 1999, 2005,… Read More
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“You break it, you own it.” This adage, a variation of the Pottery Barn Rule, was first coined by columnist Thomas L. Friedman in 2003…. Read More
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Early in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, then-Maj. Gen. David Petraeus (later a four-star general and director of the Central Intelligence Agency) rhetorically asked author… Read More
