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Unemployment among recently discharged veterans

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:32:41 PST

I have been getting a number of calls from journalists asking me about the "civil-military gap." One, after I explained what it was and what I thought it meant, asked, "So, what? Why should we...

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Flexible Credibility: Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:30:25 PST

Introduction Some uses for which the United States has historically reserved the right to use nuclear weapons may not be a credible threat to some potential adversaries. Additionally, the...

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America Looks West - Finally

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:30:48 PST

For the first time in decades, the United States has decided that it is once again a Pacific nation with primary interests along the Pacific rim. Having gone without a grand strategy since the...

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The Chinese Navy - Anti-access

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:31:08 PST

China's military modernization is clearly aimed at one thing - anti-access capability with respect to keeping American military forces, especially aircraft carriers, at arms length in the event of a...

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Bridging the Gap Between Military and Civilian Worlds

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:31:26 PST

Blue Star Families keeps a close watch on the civil-military gap from the family point of view. This recent posting is excellent reading. Related articles Facebook publishes social...

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Troops wanting to vote face several obstacles

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:31:40 PST

With the approaching primary election season upon us, journalists are beginning to become aware of the military vote once again. I was interviewed by the Killeen (TX) Daily Herald. Here...

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Voting and the American Military

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:19:47 PDT

With the presidential election campaigns beginning to ramp up (and heat up) we thought it time to bring this posting back to front and center. It was first posted to CivMilBlog a year or so ago...

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Military Voting in the 2010 Election

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:02:30 PDT

The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) just released its findings about how military personnel participated in the 2010 election. In short, military voters are going to the polls at a...

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Education Level of American Military Recruits

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:45:12 PDT

A general misconception among many is that the average recruit for military service in the United States is poorly educated when compared to the average American. Well, it just is not true. So,...

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Tips for the Mobile Professor

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:32:58 PST

More and more teachers are finding themselves mobile. Whether it is merely moving between work and home or something more complicated like teaching on multiple campuses, traveling to...

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Google Plus Hangouts and the Office Hours Problem

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:15:43 PDT

Today's college student is quite well connected, but it is surprising how limited they are in understanding the full range of what is available to them. Most are using Twitter and Facebook, but...

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Freedom of Speech

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:45:32 PDT

If ever there was a prime example of why it is so important to have freedom of speech and the apparent silliness of governments fighting it was demonstrated in a news article today. Iranian...

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Support the Troops?

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:05:43 PDT

Upon the 10th Anniversary of the U.S. engagement in Afghanistan, Emily Badger posted an excellent article. A good writer, she makes the case that while the public feels the military's pain,...

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Coercive Strategic Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:33:21 PST

Air power and sea power are both fully capable of achieving great strategic effect. However, the strategic usefulness of air power, while...

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The Fight for Loyalty

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:10:51 PDT

The American Revolution was a struggle for the allegiance of the American people. Despite both American and British leadership understanding that to be the underlying issue of the war, the...

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Nuclear Proliferation - Can it be countered?

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:11:01 PDT

One of the goals of US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War has been to prevent the further proliferation of nuclear weapons. It is easy to see how this could be done if one can prevent...

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The Air Force Drone Fleet, Viruses, and the Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:11:12 PDT

Wired has posted an article about a virus plaguing the systems used by the Air Force to control drones, including those used for attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to Wired, an apparent...

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Fighting a War With a Reserve Army

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:12:17 PDT

MRAP Showing IED Damage My son was wounded in action in July 2011 while serving in Afghanistan. The truck in which he was riding exploded an anti-tank mine. He and several of his buddies were injured...

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Steve Jobs, Computers, and the Navy

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:46:54 PDT

Upon hearing of the death of Steve Jobs, I immediately began thinking of the impact he had on my life. And, since my life was heavily influenced by the Navy, I also began to think about the...

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Avoiding Veterans on Campus

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:22:02 PDT

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by a University of Texas-Arlington professor of military history brings up the question of how to adequately deal with veterans and their...

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Strategic Environment 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:31:59 PDT

An article by Greg Grant discussing the strategic vision of Frank Hoffman caught my eye. In it he notes that Hoffman warns against getting too hung up on China as the next “near peer” rival of...

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The Internet Kill Switch

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:33:38 PST

Some recent interest in the so-called “Internet Kill Switch,” that supposedly grants the President of the United States the authority to take “…unlimited and absolute control over all internet...

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The Civil-Military Culture Gap Thesis

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:12:23 PDT

Most debate in civil-military relations assumed that a separation between the civilian and military world was inevitable and likely necessary. The argument had been over whether to control the gap...

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Thoughts on the Anniversary of 9/11

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:29:27 PDT

As 9/11 approaches, many are attempting to put those events and all that occurred in the wake of that tragedy into some sort of perspective. I was asked by one of our Google+ friends to put...

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The Growing Civil-Military Gap

noreply@blogger.com (Don Inbody) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:45:16 PDT

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