US Army Views Chinese Military Tactics August 23, 2021
How would China fight a war against the US? A new US Army publication sets out to answer that question, offering a detailed account of the military tactics China…
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Steven AftergoodNew Declassification Reforms Are Classified August 23, 2021
Legislative measures to improve the process of declassifying classified national security information were introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden in the pending intelligence authorization act for FY2022. But they were included…
Read morePentagon Sees “Increased Potential” for Nuclear Conflict July 6, 2021
The possibility that nuclear weapons could be used in regional or global conflicts is growing, said a newly disclosed Pentagon doctrinal publication on nuclear war fighting…
Read moreDoD Again Presses for New FOIA Exemption June 8, 2021
The Department of Defense is once again asking Congress for an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for certain unclassified military information including records on critical infrastructure and military…
Read moreNuclear Secrecy: In Defense of Reform May 26, 2021
One of the stranger features of nuclear weapons secrecy is the government’s ability to reach out and classify nuclear weapons-related information that has been privately generated without government involvement.
Read moreA Self-Correcting Classification System? April 20, 2021
Those persons who have authorized access to classified information that they believe is improperly classified are “encouraged and expected” to challenge the classification of that information (…
Read moreA Resurgence of Democracy in 2040? April 12, 2021
The world will be “increasingly out of balance and contested at every level” over the next twenty years due to the pressures of demographic, environmental, economic and technological change,…
Read moreArmy Program Seeks to Heighten Soldiers’ Cognition April 12, 2021
A properly trained soldier can distinguish a vegetarian from a meat-eater based on their smell, a new Army publication says, since “different diets produce different human odors.”…
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