AmSpectator
The national interest must inform our choices.
Author: Michael
Philip Ritcheson, Fletcher Security Review
The Cold War was replaced by what the late commentator Charles Krauthammer termed a “Unipolar Moment.
Compass Points
… what should Congress do about the controversial Force Design program?
Konstantin Toropin, Military.
Mike Gallagher, The Wall Street Journal
‘Energetics’—chemicals that propel and explode—gave the U.S. a battlefield edge for decades, but that advantage is eroding.
D-Fend Solutions is a winner in the Innovation category in the 2024 Army Technology Excellence Awards.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023 delivered a grim lesson in the brutal effectiveness of counter-mobility operations. Advancing Ukrainian forces found themselves in vast Russian minefields in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, where in some places multiple anti-tank mines were stacked in deadly vertical layers. For many Ukrainian crews, survival came down to the superior resilience of Western-supplied armored vehicles. Anti-tank mines ended up playing a crucial role in impeding and eventually thwarting the Ukrainian effort to break the land bridge to Crimea.
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Have you ever heard the words, “Don’t be afraid”?
Maybe someone said it when you were a kid afraid of the dark, or as an adult facing something new. For many veterans, this fear changes. It’s the fear of failing in front of others. But here’s the truth: You don’t need to have everything perfect to succeed.
If you wait until everything is just right, you’ll miss your chance. Perfectionism stops progress. The fear of failing, or what others might think, holds us back. In the military, failure could be life-threatening.