‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall

‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall
‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall

  Last year while in Japan for a meeting with senior defense and military leaders, the question most often posed to me was, “How is Yoda?” The questions were in reference to the nickname given to Andrew Marshall, arguably the foremost defense strategist of the past sixty years, who passed away this week at the…

US Strategy Must Change Coz ‘We Can’t Afford It:’ Rep. Smith

US Strategy Must Change Coz ‘We Can’t Afford It:’ Rep. Smith
US Strategy Must Change Coz ‘We Can’t Afford It:’ Rep. Smith

WASHINGTON: When the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee went to talk with the almost mystical Pentagon gang known as the Office of Net Assessment, they told him America can’t afford to execute the strategy we’re pursuing. “I asked them what they were lacking. They didn’t have an answer,” Rep. Adam Smith told…

Why Pentagon Must Embrace Transformation, This Time

Why Pentagon Must Embrace Transformation, This Time
Why Pentagon Must Embrace Transformation, This Time

  Military transformation boasts several fathers, including Andy Marshall (Yoda) of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, Andy Krepinevich of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments  (a Marshall acolyte) and the late Vice Adm. Art Cebrowski of the Office of Force Transformation (OFT), but relatively few children. The OFT built the M80 Stiletto (pictured…