Army

Shrinking Army Fights National Guard For Vital Combat Helicopters (From Forbes)

June 30, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D With budget walls closing in, the Army has been forced to forgo upgrading its aging Kiowa scout helicopters or developing a replacement.  However, the armed reconnaissance mission that Kiowa performs is still crucial to warfighting plans, so service leaders have [Read More...]

Why Is The Army Planning To Fight In Megacities?

May 14, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. The world is becoming more urbanized. Continuing a process that began 200 years ago at the start of the Industrial Revolution, people are flocking to the city. This has led to the creation of so-called megacities, conurbations with at least [Read More...]

In The 21st Century It’s Still All About Geography

May 7, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. It was a pleasant, even charming delusion: that geography, national borders and one’s group identity no longer mattered. After all, don’t we live in the age of the Internet (nee Worldwide Web), the global economy, multinational corporations, the European Union [Read More...]