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President Joe Biden’s nominee for Army secretary, Christine Wormuth, on Thursday promised senators she would provide them data on extremism in the ranks as Republican lawmakers warned of unfounded claims about troops after a pro-Donald Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Wormuth, a former Obama Pentagon undersecretary for policy, would be the first woman to serve in the role if confirmed. Senate Armed Services Committee members on both sides of the aisle praised her as “the right person” for the job, as put by Iowa Republican Joni Ernst. But Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan expressed frustration that Army soldiers were being targeted by the media as racists and extremists without proof, and he called on the nominee to commit to protecting soldiers.
These systems might have had transformative effects had they survived.
Here s What You Need to Know: Only rarely does an isolated technological achievement lend decisive advantage in tactical engagements.
Weapons die for all kinds of different reasons. Sometimes they happen at the wrong time, either in the midst of defense austerity, or with the wrong constellation of personnel. Sometimes they fall victim to the byzantine bureaucracy of the Pentagon, or to turf fights between the services. And sometimes they die because they were a bad idea in the first place. For the same reasons, bad defense systems can often survive the most inept management if they fill a particular niche well enough.
The war dramatically changed Americans tolerance for the use of military force.
Here s What You Need to Know: Great powers have the luxury of making costly mistakes.
Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in the risky, stupid invasion of foreign country. In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it became apparent after the first few months that the war was not working out as its framers had envisioned. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction was only the icing, so to speak, on the disaster of failed reconciliation, state collapse, and executive incompetence.
Who Reaped the Soft Power Benefits from the U.S. Invasion of Iraq?
The Iraq war was an unexpected gift to America’s adversaries.
Here’s What You Need to Know: Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in the risky, stupid invasion of foreign country. In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it became apparent after the first few months that the war was not working out as its framers had envisioned. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction was only the icing, so to speak, on the disaster of failed reconciliation, state collapse, and executive incompetence.