- Micah Zenko argues that technological and organisational changes have permanently lowered the costs of using force faced by US presidents.
- Does the decline in British military capabilities threaten its privileged trans-Atlantic relationship?
- John Mearsheimer contends that debates surrounding US national security have become drastically untethered from the reality of the unparalleled security of American society.
- The Center for New American Security has published a study arguing that increasing personnel and development cost augur a comprehensive shift towards a new form of unmanned and autonomous robotic warfare.
- What can the Anglo-Irish War teach us about counterinsurgency today? John Collins reviews JBE Hittle’s Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War.
- Strong indications that the Pentagon is once again mulling a cut in the number of US aircraft carriers to achieve sequestration imperatives.
- Small Wars Journal is carrying an interview with Andrew A Michta that surveys the post-Afghanistan institutional challenges to NATO.
- Finally, in an apt metaphor for the state of global security, as seagulls and crows immediately savage two doves released by the Pope following his calls for peace in the Ukraine.
Military & strategy links: Low-cost war, Mearsheimer, UK cuts, NATO and more
Published 28 Jan 2014