This Reference Page lists articles about our national defense apparatus.
Other FM Reference Pages about related topics:
- An Army near the Breaking Point – an archive of links
- Military and strategic theory
- Naval warfare and strategy
Contents
- Other resources
- About our defense systems working against us
- About our defense strategy
- Reforming our defense strategy and machinery
- About America’s military machinery
1. Other resources
- “The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2008“, Congressional Budget Office, March 2008 — Essential reading for anyone interested in the condition of our military
2. About our defense systems working against us
- News from the Front: America’s military has mastered 4GW!, 2 September 2007
- 4GW at work in a community near you, 19 October 2007
- The media discover info ops, with outrage!, 22 April 2008
- Successful info ops, but who are the targets?, 1 May 2008
- Psywar, a core skill of the US Military (used most often on us), 26 November 2008
- Concrete evidence of government info ops against us, but it’s OK because we are sheep, 2 December 2008
- DoD confesses that they whitewashed revelations about an info op run against us, 12 July 2009
- A warning from Alexis De Tocqueville about our military, 7 August 2009
3. About our defense strategy
- America’s Most Dangerous Enemy, 1 March 2006
- Adopting the tools of our enemies, a path to victory, 4 September 2008
- How can America adapt to a new world? A conference about national security lights the way., 18 October 2008
4. Reforming our defense strategy and machinery
- Recommended reading: transforming the Army, the hard way, 15 January 2008
- America needs a Foreign Legion, 18 April 2008
- Secretary Gates would be a hero – if speeches could reform DoD, 6 May 2008
- I was wrong about SecDef Gates – here is a more accurate view of him, 7 May 2008
- “The Pentagon Takes Over”, 30 May 2008 — DoD’s very size militarizes our foreign affairs.
- Militia – the ultimate defense against 4GW, 31 May 2008
- Lawrence Korb of CAP and CDI advocates a militia, 4 June 2008
- Thoughts on fixing America’s national security apparatus, 11 August 2008
- How can America adapt to a new world? A conference about national security lights the way., 18 October 2008
- The State Department needs help, stat!, 22 December 2008
- Does Secretary of Defense Gates have cojones grande?, 8 April 2009
5. About America’s military machinery
- Another cycle down the Defense Death Spiral, 30 January 2008
- One telling similarity between the the Wehrmacht and the US Military, 10 March 2008
- Only our amnesia makes reading the newspapers bearable, 30 April 2008 — About General Petraeus.
- A neverending story: DoD’s attempts to stop cooking the books, 2 May 2008
- “America’s Greatest Weapon”, 25 May 2008 — About our people in uniform.
- The Core Competence of America’s Military Leaders, 27 May 2008
- An effective way to support our Troops: help the Blue Star Mothers of America, 8 June 2008
- One of the best geopolitical posts of the year, IMO, 12 August 2008 — “War is the great auditor of institutions”
- Time: “America’s Medicated Army”, 12 June 2008
- Stratfor: “The U.S. Air Force and the Next War”, 13 June 2008
- “VA testing drugs on war veterans” – The Washington Times and ABC News, 18 June 2008
- Nagl gives a profoundly wrong vision for the US military, 22 June 2008
- The moral courage of our senior generals, or their lack of it, 3 July 2008
- A lesson in war-mongering: “Maritime Strategy in an Age of Blood and Belief”, 8 July 2008
- Is post-traumatic stress disorder more common now than in past wars?, 17 July 2008
- Is COIN the graduate level of military hubris?, 30 July 2008
- The foundation of America’s empire: our chain of bases around the world, 8 September 2008
- No coins, no COIN, 6 October 2008
- America’s Defense Meltdown, now avilable for free download, 20 November 2008
- “What’s wrong with the US military?”, an interview with Winslow Wheeler, 10 December 2008
- The economic Death Spiral of the Pentagon, 7 February 2009
- The US Army brings us back to the future, returning to WWI’s “cult of the offense”, 13 February 2009
- A lesson for America – and an inspiration, 13 March 2009
- Something every American should read, 25 March 2009 — About torture.
- Suicides skyrocket among US soliders, 26 March 2009
- Blowback – could our military become a threat to America?, 7 May 2009
- Troops without proper equipment in 2004, troops without proper equipment in 2009 – where’s the outrage?, 20 May 2009
- “Shock and Audit” – MoJo dissects the defense budget so you don’t have to, 30 June 2009
- Another step in America’s Defense Meltdown – a guest post by Winslow T. Wheeler, 30 July 2009
