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The Foundational Metal of War: Aluminum, the Middle East War, and America’s Strategic Vulnerability
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The US military has an aluminum problem. It arises not from the metal’s rarity, but its presence...
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The Global War on Terrorism left the US Army with unresolved, pernicious habits. Foremost is a...
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The debate between expensive platforms that deliver exquisite capability and cheap ones that offer...
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The United States Army’s shift away from the counterinsurgency focus that dominated the early...
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John Spencer | 04.01.26
Throughout the long history of war, militaries have understood a simple truth: Combat...
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