Thomas W. Spoehr, a retired Army lieutenant general, is director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation.
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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
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Today is the first Monday in February, and by law, the day the president must deliver his proposed federal budget to Congress. It’s normally a… Read More
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One dangerous response to the Ukraine crisis is that the U.S. should make nice with the Russians so they can either help, or at least… Read More
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Gallup recently released a poll describing how American’s confidence in military officers had declined to its lowest level since it began measuring in 2001. The… Read More
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Last week, we presented the first half of The Heritage Foundation’s defense center’s Christmas wish list, which you can read here. (The Daily Signal is… Read More
