Defense and the National Interest

Now available from the publisher, the Center for Defense Information.
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An impassioned yet well-researched plea by E. E. Riccioni, a veteran AF fighter pilot and charter member of the Fighter Mafia (99 KB PDF).
About the author:  I first met Rich Riccioni about 35 years ago, when I was a junior staffer doing grunt work for a tac air shop in the Office of the Secretary [...]

Global Security Newswire
Sept. 26, 2008
The U.S. Air Force is considering the addition of significant new features to many of its B-61 nuclear gravity
bombs, such as the one shown above (Center for Defense Information photo).

U.S. Air Force Might Modify Nuclear Bomb
By Elaine M. Grossman
Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON - For the first time in more than a [...]

by Chuck Spinney
A recent article by Thomas Powers in the New York Review of Books is a very good analysis of why Mr. Bush’s impulse to attack Iran before he leaves office is sheer madness. And at a deeper level, it well illustrates how perverted the militarization of US grand strategy has become at [...]

If We Can Keep It: A National Security Manifesto for the Next Administration, by DNI Editor Chet Richards. Now available on Amazon.

If We Can Keep It: A National Security Manifesto for the Next Administration, by DNI Editor Chet Richards.Chapter III, “Is It War?” is now available [63 KB PDF]. This is a marketing teaser, to implant a subliminal impulse to buy the book and then tell all your friends about it.It should be on Amazon within [...]