Department of Defense

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/8/2021
  

  Back to the Future at the Pentagon

  by William Astore

  The Pentagon's shift away from planning for asymmetrical warfare toward "near-peer" conventional conflict is reviving the defense contracting gravy train for big-ticket weapons systems, with a revival of Cold War nuclear danger as a side effect. 

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• 12/6/2020
  

  Stop the Music

  by Richard H. Kohn

  President-Elect Biden has allowed too much speculation about his choices for Secretary of Defense and unwisely floated the name of a retired Army general for the job. He needs to make a quick commitment to a nominee whose national defense experience comes from the civil, not the military, arena.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8-11-17
  

  The Pentagon Has a Small Coup Problem

  by Nick Turse

  The Department of Defense has trained more than a hundred foreign militaries that went on to stage coups in their home countries.