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Mark Collins – Weapons System Creep, or, “Words for our time?”

Indeed–at Tom Ricks’ “The Best Defense” blog: Gen. George C. Marshall on the need for planning ‘economical’ defense spending Relevant: “Pentagon Readies Budget Ax” (note F-35) F-35: “The Most Expensive...

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Mark Collins – Waging War: Science and Operational Research

One wonders to what extent the lessons from WW II are being practiced today in Western militaries. The start of a book review in the Wall St. Journal (links added): How Scientists Sank the U-Boat...

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Eric Morse – Royal Canadian Military Institute announces Col Peter Hunter...

At its last meeting, the RCMI Board decided to create an award of $750, named for our late Director Col Peter Hunter, for a meritorious presentation by a graduate student to the annual CDAI Graduate...

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Mark Collins – COIN, or, What Is the West Willing to Do to Win?

A serving British Army officer gets to the heart of the matter at Tom Ricks’ “The Best Defense” blog: By Major Tom Mcilwaine, Queen’s Royal Hussars Best Defense guest columnist Question Set Ten — Do we...

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Mark Collins – The Cold War: Stalin Did It

The start of a book review by Andrew Roberts in the Wall St. Journal: Wrong But Not Forgotten Archives opened in the 1990s prove that Stalin started the Cold War. Who started the Cold War? For the...

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Mark Collins – The Last of the Valkyries

These German few are no more. At SOMNIA: … Lives Lived The Associated Press Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist has died aged 90 – More – More … Valkyrie, and another “very brave soldier“.Mark Collins, a...

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John Noble – Resurrecting Trudeau’s Ghost on NATO?

The recent CDFAI paper by Jack Granatstein “Is NATO Still Necessary for Canada”[i] suggests the time has come for Canada to get out of NATO and put all of our eggs in the U.S. basket (with perhaps a...

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Mark Collins – Water Torture in the American Civil War

Just so you know.  From p. 640 of A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War, by Amanda Foreman (a review here): …Seward [the US Secretary of State]…turned some of his...

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Mark Collins – Kind of Reminds US JCS Chairman of the World War II Combined...

Further to this post, more at Foreign Policy’s ”Situation Report” (and an interesting question below in brackets in italics): … U.S.-U.K. defense leaders mum on strategy summit. The top military...

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Mark Collins – A New Clausewitz?

That is the view of distinguished military historian Michael Howard, excerpts from a review in the Times Literary Supplement (via Arts & Letters Daily): Narratives of war … Emile Simpson WAR FROM...

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Mark Collins –“Here’s the official Best Defense list of books of non-American...

At Tom Ricks’Foreign Policy blog, a fair number related to COIN as to be expected these days: Here are the results of our survey of good books of military history that aren’t about the U.S. military....

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Mark Collins – US Army: “Generally Mediocre”, Part… (plus Dugout Doug)

Further to this post, yet more below on Tom Ricks’ new book from Andrew Bacevich, Col. (ret’d) US Army and described by a friend well-acquainted with the States as”one of the most intelligent US...

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Mark Collins – The Middle Kingdom’s (misguided) Strategies, Part 2

Further to this post featuring Edward Luttwak, similar thoughts from Tom Ricks at his “Best Defense” blog: David Fromkin makes me think about the British mishandling the rise of Germany and what that...

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Mark Collins – The Brutal Allied Campaign in North-West Europe, 1944-45,...

In reality as tough as World War I on the Western Front, simply much shorter.  At Tom Ricks’ “Best Defense”, with quite some sting: Atkinson’s ‘Guns at Last Light’: Even better than you think, for...

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Mark Collins – Anglo-German Headline of the Day

1815: Wellington had Blücher; 2011: the Brits in Libya had…German intelligence? Britain had to rely on German military for first time since Waterloo … During the Libyan conflict in 2011 British forces...

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CDFAI’s 2013 Summer Dispatch Issue

Contents of the latest issue: Revolutionary Hip-Hop: Mahraganat in Egypt and Beyond Hrach Gregorian considers the impact of the emergence of a new wave of Egyptian music with a political message. Its...

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Mark Collins- The F-35, a Famous Fighter Pilot…and US Grand Strategy

More linkages than one might think: John Boyd’s Art of War Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel.  By William S. Lind [more here]…...

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Mark Collins – Syria, Bombing and Kosovo

Our great and good Messrs Axworthy and Rock think the 1999 bombing of Kosovo and Serbia is a lovely little precedent for military action against Syria.  They, usually of a more left persuasion all in...

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Mark Collins – The RCAF and WW II: “Captains of the Clouds”

How odd that the only feature movie about the RCAF in World War II was made by Hollywood in 1941.  Scenes in Ottawa!  In colour!  As part of Hollywood’s dastardly plot to get the US into the war. The...

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Mark Collins – Shaky Nuke “Command and Control”

Excerpts from a piece in the NY Times Book Review[links added]: Atomic Gaffes ‘Command and Control,’ by Eric Schlosser … Schlosser’s disquieting but riveting book looks at every aspect of nuclear risk,...

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