Real Clear Defense Thursday
China and the U.S. Are Preparing for War - Michael Pillsbury, Foreign PolicyU.S. & China's Competing Versions of Transparency - John Grady, USNI
Don't Forget America's Nuclear Arsenal - Tom Nichols, National Interest
The Culmination of Unconventional Warfare - Steve Thomas, WOTR
4 Things Veterans Hate That Movies Get Wrong - Brian Adam Jones, T&P
RCD Morning Edition
A Withering Critique of Obama's NSC - Jeffrey Goldberg, The AtlanticArmy Cuts Fall on Officers Who Began as Enlisted - Dave Philipps, NYT
End the "Five Naval Shipyards" Meme - Craig Hooper, Next Navy
A Grave Threat to NATO (And It's Not Russia) - Ted Galen Carpenter, TNI
Russian Bombers to Patrol Gulf of Mexico - Vladimir Isachenkov, AP
The Ukrainian Ceasefire That Never Was - Ioffe & Kinstler, New Republic
A Potential Fresh Start for U.S. Foreign Policy - George Will, Wash Post
The "Brass Ceiling" Is Still Alive and Well - Greg Jacob, Defense One
The Civil War & Women in Combat - Anna Granville, Task & Purpose
An Uncertain Future for China's DF-21 - Information Dissemination
The Rise of the Feral Adversary - Alon Paz, War on the Rocks
Backing Into Yet Another Losing War - Gary Anderson, Small Wars Journal
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Hometown Defense
Two Killed in National Guard Helicopter Crash - KTVBNorth Carolina's Special Ops Unit - Joe Trevithick, War Is Boring
USAF Wants to Expand Hill Range for F-35s - M. Shaw, Standard-Examiner
A Vision for Idaho and the Air Force - Dustin Walker, Idaho Statesman
Lemoore to Be Home to 100 F-35Cs - Lewis Griswold & Jim Guy, Fresno Bee
Research & Analysis
China Naval Modernization - Congressional Research ServiceDefeating ISIS - Michael Eisenstadt, Washington Institute
The Shale Revolution & the New Geopolitics of Energy - Atlantic Council
Cross-Domain Denial and the Army - Eric Lindsey, CSBA
Toward a New Offset Strategy - Robert Martinage, CSBA
Speeches, Transcripts, & Documents
Remarks at the AUSA Annual Meeting - Secretary of Defense Chuck HagelU.S. Policy Toward the Asia-Pacific - Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work
Remarks at the UN General Assembly - President Barack Obama
Address to the Nation on the Islamic State - President Barack Obama
Remarks at Defense Innovation Days - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
Real Clear Defense Wednesday
Morning UpdatePentagon Seeks Flying Aircraft Carrier - Ray Locker, USA Today
U.S. Stealth Drone Helped Test Huge Bomb - Joe Trevithick, War Is Boring
U.S. Sent C-17 to Chinese Air Show Despite Concerns - Defense One
Inside the ISIS-Al Qaeda Merger Talks - Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast
Inside the CIA's Syrian Rebels Vetting Machine - Jeff Stein, Newsweek
Proxy War Protocols: Making Syrian Rebels Work - James Kitfield, BD
Against ISIS, Iran Is Not and Will Not Be a Friend - Bobby Ghosh, Quartz
A Handy Checklist for the U.S. Effort in Iraq - David Ignatius, Wash Post
NSA the Biggest Winner in the Election? - Sue Myrick & Andy Polk, WOTR
Countries Without Militaries - Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
Who Lost Vietnam? - Arnold Isaacs, Cicero Magazine
India's Strategic Vietnam Defense Relations - PK Ghosh, The Diplomat
5 Things You Can Buy for an F-35 - Patrick Tucker, Government Executive
Kim Jong Un's Tin Can Air Force - Van Jackson, Foreign Policy
Fearing Bombs That Can Pick Who to Kill - John Markoff, New York Times
Afternoon Update
Obama's Deadly Drone Informants - Farooq & Kakakhel, Daily Beast
What the U.S. Leaves Behind for Afghan Troops - Tim Craig, Wash Post
Ghostly Shipwrecks & the Atlantic War - Steve Weintz, War Is Boring
Last Thing U.S. Needs Is Mobile Nuclear Missiles - Collina & Marx, D1
How Many DF-21 Missiles Does China Need? - Information Dissemination
Why a U.S.-China Cyber Cold War Isn't Happening - James Lewis, TNI
Minding the Balance on Australia's Strategic Role - John Blaxland, ASPI
USAF Eyes A-10 Compromise with Congress - Aaron Mehta, Defense News
Everything You Know About Clausewitz Is Wrong - J. Holmes, Diplomat
Success, the Role of Force & the Unknowable - Joshua Jones, WOTR
Real Clear Defense Tuesday
Morning UpdateChina Truth-Teller Fired by U.S. Navy - David Larter, Navy Times
Fanell Was Right About China's Prep for War - Bryan McGrath, USNI News
The Hard Truths Obama Needs to Hear - Max Boot, Commentary
China's Arsenal of DF-21 Carrier Killers - Information Dissemination
Iran Using U.S. Drones to Keep Fighter Pilots Sharp - A. Rawnsley, WIB
McCain & McCaskill at SASC: Nightmare for DOD? - Sydney Freedberg, BD
The Big Counterterrorism Counterfactual - Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Losing the al-Qaeda War - Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast
Rhymes of History Echo from World War I - Robert Freeman, LA Times
Reagan Saved the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - William Pendley, WT
Marines Remember Falluja, 10 Years Later - Thomas James Brennan, NYT
Iraq Vets Deserve a Parade of Their Own - Michael Daly, Daily Beast
What War Teaches Us - Benjamin Ginsberg, Stars and Stripes
What Our Veterans Can Teach Us - Mark Lee Greenblatt, RCDefense
It's More Than One Day a Year - David Mattingly, War on the Rocks
5 Ways to Honor Veterans Beyond Veterans Day - Ashley Fantz, CNN
How Americans Can Serve Together with Vets - Gen. Martin Dempsey, D1
Afternoon Update
The Truth About the Wars - Daniel Bolger, New York Times
The Pentagon's Nine-Brigade Gamble on Iraq - Robert Scales, Wash Post
The Lawyer Who Defended Terrorists - Matthew Gault, War Is Boring
Why Military Readiness Is So Vital - Eric Jorgensen, Cicero Magazine
We Now Know Why the F-117 Is Still Flying - Aaron Mehta, Intercepts
