Friday NatSec Roundup
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
- This was tactical ground combat week in Defense Statecraft, and of course we plowed through some tactical problems…
- I’m quoted in this Kelsey Atherton piece about what Biden can and should do with the Space Force. FWIW, I am told that the appropriate usage is “the Space Force,” much like “the Army,” “the Navy, and “the Marine Corps.”
- China’s third aircraft carrier is nearing completion, because the Chinese have definitely looked at the problem and concluded that ballistic missiles make aircraft carriers obsolete.
- Some good context for thinking about the air campaign in Operation Desert Storm, where the primary success came from attacks against conventionally deployed Iraqi military forces.
- Are we getting CVLs again? Navy thinks it’s worth a look…
- An art historian renders some opinions on fighter plane cockpits…