Archive for the ‘Defense Transformation’ Category

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 7:20am

Change You Can Believe In: Sen. Joe Biden?

Sen. Joe Biden has been tapped as Sen. Barack Obama’s running mate.  Biden has been in Washington since 1972 when he was first elected to the United States Senate.  He is a smart guy but a rather loquacious fellow, which has gotten him in trouble several times.  Clearly, the Obama campaign felt the need to offset Sen. Obama’s gross lack of experience on national security and believed that Sen. Biden would do just that.  Sen. Biden is currently the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

However, this pick is a sign of desperation for the Obama campaign, which has begun to see the writing on the wall.  The reality is that Obama’s small lead in public opinion polls has completely…

Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 1:00am

The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand

Here’s an excellent video, chronicling Sen. Obama’s many positions on Iraq.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 3:02pm

New Media, Information Warfare and the U.S. Army

Posted by Tom Skypek in Defense Transformation, Media

David Axe posted a very interesting piece today in The Danger Room.  He examines the emerging role of new media in the U.S. Army:

Senior Army leaders have fallen behind the breakneck development of cheap digital communications including cell phones, digital cameras and Web 2.0 Internet sites such as blogs and Facebook, Army Secretary Pete Geren said at a trade conference on July 10. That helps explain how “just one man in a cave that’s hooked up to the Internet has been able to out-communicate the greatest communications society in the history of the world — the United States,” Geren said, according to Inside Defense. (Subscription required.)

“It’s a challenge not only at home, it’s a challenge in recruiting,…

Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 4:07am

Defense Transformation and the Next Administration

Posted by Tom Skypek in Defense Transformation

As the general election gears up, questions surrounding defense and national security are likely to dominate the national discussion.  While defense transformation remains an important issue for the Defense Department, it will most likely be lost in policy debates about Iraq and Iran.  But defense transformation is not an arcane policy issue; rather it is critical to ensuring that the U.S. retains its preeminent position in world affairs.  Simply put, transformation refers to the optimal alignment and development of capabilities, organizations and processes in support of the warfighter to reflect the ever-changing nature of warfare.  It is an issue that will confront the next president of the United States. 

Current U.S. military operations are a case in point.  The Defense Department must…

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