tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79340303437888644382011-07-08T11:17:30.865-04:00NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEW covers general issues in national security. Samuel Mahaney is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches "Federal Appropriations Law, Process, and Application in Today's Legislative Environment." He is a former Harvard Kennedy School National Security Fellow.Samuel C. Mahaney, Sr., Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02024324284776468726noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934030343788864438.post-37875402729394478432009-04-29T10:35:00.005-04:002009-04-29T13:56:22.367-04:00

The New York Times reports today that “American commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, the country’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops into the three provinces that bankroll much of the group’s operations.”1 In 2004 I served as Military Fellow to U.S. Representative Jerry Lewis (Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee).

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During the Presidential Candidate Forum on National Service on CNN on September 11th, 2008, Judy Woodruff, who normally has her facts solidly in place (and who I greatly respect), suggested that America’s current volunteer military is overly represented by the poor.[1] Others have also erroneously made this case. They have gone so far as to say that in order to ensure proportional representation,

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Whatever the Russian-Georgian War means for Russia or Europe, it means that U.S. strategic thinking must change once again. For the last four years, it has been in vogue to talk about irregular warfare and boots on the ground as if the only possible warfare contingency in the next two decades would be fighting poorly equipped insurgencies. Discussions about platforms like the F-22 fighter were

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The contract award for the Air Force tanker replacement is now a political hot potato that Air Force acquisition officers should not be expected to handle alone. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates should take on a much larger role as the contract award unfolds. This is not an indictment on the Air Force, but rather an acknowledgement that only the Secretary of Defense has sufficient clout to deal

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The Army Times is reporting that the Army National Guard (ARNG) has missed its monthly recruiting goal for the first time since 2005. The misstep, however, is not due to any failure on the part of Army Guard or its 359,288 members. It is the result of an Army directive ordering the ARNG to slow its recruiting so it does not exceed manpower levels authorized by law. Though the Army had no other

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The Air Force continues to get knocked around like a ping pong ball over the award of its tanker replacement contract to Northrop Grumman / European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (NG/EADS). The GAO has sustained the Boeing Company’s protest and has given the Air Force 60 days to respond to the GAO’s recommendations. The GAO’s sustainment of Boeings protest should not be seen as a “

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NSR Memo #101All eyes are on the Government Accounting Office (GAO) as it prepares to make a recommendation on whether the $40 billion contract to build 179 air refueling tankers for the Air Force was properly awarded to Northrop Grumman / European Aeronautic, Defence, & Space Company (NG/EADS). But the GAO recommendation is just a prelude to the battle that is likely to erupt between House

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The Tribute to Tim Russert on Meet the Press yesterday was moving. From the moment the camera showed Tim's empty chair, I was emotional. It hit hard. The Chair that he had filled for 17 years sat empty. The set was dark. Tom Brokaw's warm but emotionally tinged voice opened the broadcast...along with that empty chair.After watching Tim's broadcast every Sunday I felt like I had lost a best friend

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I co-authored the following article with Mackenzie Eaglen on the Heritage Foundation website on 2 June 2008By Mackenzie Eaglen and Samuel C. MahaneyHeritage Foundation WebMemo #1942While Congress continues debate on the fiscal year (FY) 2009 defense bills, the services continue their work on the Pentagon's 2010 budget proposal in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the

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