Category Archives: Military

Historian Paul Johnson devotes his latest Forbes column to the potential dangers associated with rogue states pursuing nuclear weapons. Today’s three superpowers–the U.S., Russia and China–have no conflicts of interest that can’t be resolved through compromise. All have hair-trigger nuclear alert systems, but the sheer scale of their armories has forced them to take nuclearContinue Reading

Coming up with new ways of wasting money is a long-standing Pentagon tradition. Two cases getting national press attention: • The Littoral Combat Ships. Bloomberg describes problems with the Navy’s new types of ship that’s suppose to be able to do, well, everything, in coastal waters: U.S. Navy leaders were warned last year that aContinue Reading

Gov. Pat McCrory heard a lot of requests for help from local officials on Wednesday when he met with the North Carolina League of Municipalities. The organization had 500 members present in Raleigh during the organization’s Town Hall Day, which included visits to the House and Senate. But what stood out in sharp relief toContinue Reading

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Don’t worry. Charles Krauthammer still has plenty of criticism for President Obama and his administration. But the columnist offers arguments that the Obama administration has failed to make in defending its drone war. 1. By what right does the president order the killing by drone of enemies abroad? What criteria justify assassination? Answer: (a) imminentContinue Reading

Tim Kane has an interesting piece in the Washington Post, arguing that the Pentagon in general and the Army in particular does a poor job of managing people: The Army has bled talent for decades, a consequence of a deeply dysfunctional organization that poorly matches jobs with talent and doesn’t trust its officers to makeContinue Reading

A new Republican administration in North Carolina state government, working alongside a Republican-led General Assembly, could mean opportunities for major reform in taxes, education, regulation, health care, and other big issues. The John Locke Foundation has compiled the book First In Freedom to offer policymakers ideas for useful reforms. John Hood discusses key themes fromContinue Reading

… in the U.S. government’s use of drones, you might want to revisit Duke professor Scott Silliman’s discussion of drones with the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society and with Carolina Journal Radio. Silliman: A lot of folks have challenged the killing by drone by saying, “You can’t just go out there and kill somebody. You’veContinue Reading