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Reuters Would a U.S. Strike Against Iran Actually Work?
Please read Jeffrey Goldberg's new analysis of the split between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama. Then please read a decade-old article about what a "preemptive" strike against Iran would really entail.
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Stomoway Productions The Reform the Military Is Already Undertaking: Chickenhawk, No. 19
"We need junior officers willing to stick their necks out and write." On the military's internal efforts to learn from its recent distress
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The Atlantic Two Young Officers on How the Country Let the Military Down, and Vice Versa
A pair of captains call for closer civilian scrutiny to fix the institutions they love.
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Wikimedia Genuinely Bad News About the F-35 and the A-10 (Chickenhawk, No. 17)
"The moral is to the physical as three is to one," Napoleon said about the elements of military strength. Two signs that would make Napoleon worry.
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Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre We're Not Chickenhawks: A View From the Left
"How do your corporate sponsors affect your choice of story line? There could be more profit in peace than in war, but you would have to step on some toes to point this out."
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The Atlantic Solving the Chickenhawk Problem: Is It All Up to the Vets?
A man who has recently left the Air Force suggests that people like him should take the lead in re-connecting civil and military culture. No. 15 in our Chickenhawk series.
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Wikimedia commons A Generation of Lions, Led by Lambs: The Chickenhawk Chronicles
Reports of "a general, quiet dissonance between the younger and older officers in the military."
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Donald Vandergriff Chickenhawk, No. 13: Vandergriff as Yoda?
A 93-year-old steps aside, and the choice of his successor will send a signal.
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U.S. Air Forces Central Public Affairs Photo by ... Chickenhawk Chronicles, No. 12: Careerism and Competence
"Upon redeployment from combat, our squadron was greeted by a new commander who proceeded to tell us that none of us were going to get promoted if we didn't get our masters degrees finished." Veterans discuss the internal tragedies of the military.
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The Atlantic The Chickenhawk Chronicles, No. 11: A Failure of Grand Strategy
What Alfred Lord Tennyson could teach us about civil-military relations. Plus, the simple lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, from a naval veteran's point of view.
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The Atlantic Chickenhawk America, in Today's News
Might the next presidential race shift attention back to long-neglected military questions?
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The Atlantic Chickenhawk Responses No. 9: Meanwhile, the Realities
"We are quick to jail some junior enlisted teenager for leaking secrets or acting out in the stressors of war. But was anyone fired for failure to secure the supply lines, not protect our troops, engage in the protracted war?"
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The Atlantic Chickenhawk Response No. 8: The Economic Realities (and Unrealities) of a Trillion-Dollar Budget
"The same inherent disadvantages that crippled the Soviet centrally planned economy in trying to compete with the American free-market-capitalism model are coming to bear on the Pentagon," says a former Air Force officer.
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The Atlantic Chickenhawk Responses No. 5: 'Get the Hell Back in Your Foxhole'
Three thoughts on what it means to thank people for their service
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The Atlantic Chickenhawk Nation, Response No. 4: 'Actually, Our Military Keeps Winning'
"The question is why did not more officers, and with more effect, ask David Petraeus’s 2003 question ‘how does this end?’"
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The Atlantic Chickenhawk Nation, Reader Response No. 3: 'Quiet Gratitude,' or Dangerous Contempt?
"I have nothing but disgust for military apologists such as James Fallows."
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Reuters Talking With Chuck Hagel
What was on his mind when he thought he had two more years as defense secretary
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Youssef Boudlal/Reuters Before Tonight's Speech About ISIS
When people say "we must act now!" they are usually wrong. When people say "we can't look weak!" it's usually time to discount whatever else they say.
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Reuters Turning Policemen Into Soldiers, the Culmination of a Long Trend
Another poisoned fruit of the post-9/11 sensibility
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Reuters From Inside and Outside the Iron Dome, Once Again
"If you continue looking up to the sky, you will not notice that the house is already burning from within." A reader in Jerusalem on the real threat to his country.
