President Obama went to the Pentagon to announce the Defense Department's new "Strategic Guidance," the document that will serve as the template for weapons acquisition, force sizing, military strategy, budgeting, and geographic focus for the future.
Marxist-Leninist doctrine predicted that capitalism would collapse on the “ash heap of history” as global communism triumphed as an economic system. Instead, 20 years ago last Sunday it was the vanguard of the international communist movement, the Soviet Union, which disintegrated.
Iranian armed forces claim they shot down an unmanned U.S. drone spy plane over its eastern border region.
The U.S. is running as fast as it can from the defining strategy and focus of the last decade—fighting counter-insurgencies and engaging in nation-building. The new leitmotif the Defense Department is embracing is the "Air-Sea Battle."
Twenty-five years ago this month President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland, at a summit that appears, in retrospect, to truly be the “turning point in the Cold War.”
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