Beef Up UN Peacekeepers; Let Them Kill Bad Guys

Beef Up UN Peacekeepers; Let Them Kill Bad Guys
Beef Up UN Peacekeepers; Let Them Kill Bad Guys

Islamists are regrouping in Mali, but France wants to draw its forces down to 1,000 troops, so who will fill the gap? The UN, which already has 5,500 soldiers on the ground? A fragile truce holds in the Central Africa Republic, where more than one million people have been displaced by gruesome fighting between Muslims…

FIST: Beating the Innovators’ Dilemma; Faster, Better Weapons Buying

FIST: Beating the Innovators’ Dilemma; Faster, Better Weapons Buying
FIST: Beating the Innovators’ Dilemma; Faster, Better Weapons Buying

  As Congress awaits word from the Pentagon as to just how it will manage sequestration (the plan is due to Sen. Carl Levin‘s Senate Armed Services’s Committee today), we’ve got this interesting piece from Rachel Kleinfeld, a member of our board of contributors and president of the progressive Truman National Security Project. Kleinfeld argues…

Why The Hate For Hagel? The Twilight Of The NeoCons

The pundits are reading the tea leaves and the critics sharpening their knives. What would Chuck Hagel be like, really, as Secretary of Defense? If you want to understand how the SecDef-apparent thinks, however, it’s hard to do better than to look at his own words. Read them carefully, and it becomes clear that the…

Flexible Forces Plus New Drone, Cyber, & Climate Policies Top 2013 Wish List

As 2013 hurtles towards us, Breaking Defense has asked the experts on our Board of Contributors to forecast the key defense issues of the coming year (click here for the full 2013 forecast series). We kick off the series with this essay from Rachel Kleinfeld, founding president of the aggressively progressive Truman National Security Project.…

Top Three National Security Issues For Our Next President: Attention Convention Attendees

Breaking Defense commissioned this article from the CEO of the Truman National Security Project, Rachel Kleinfeld, to help prod both the GOP and Democrats into some vigorous and open discussion about national security issues. You may hate the ideas expressed here or love them, but we think you’ll react to them — which is the…