War on the Rocks is a reliable source of independent news on the U.S. military. Ryan Evans, founder and editor, talked with Bloomberg about covering–and understanding–the United States world-wide military empire. Ryan who served in a civilian capacity in Afghanistan, has some smart and interesting things to say. RE: I think that the U.S. is...
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Autopsy of America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
In War on the Rocks, Jason Dempsey, an Afghan war veteran and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, dissects how the United States lost the war that is has supposedly been winning for the last 17 years. We blamed the Afghans. These failures of the Afghan security forces have been attributed to the...
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Intelligence Disrupted: Analysts Have to Adapt to AI or Die
A year ago, a report by the management consulting firm McKinsey concluded that, in 60 percent of occupations worldwide, at least one-third of activities could be automated. Between 400 million to 800 million people could be displaced by automation in the next 12 years, according to McKinsey. Intelligence analysts will be among the unemployed unless...
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Partisan Military Pundits Win Followers and Lose Credibility
Thanks to President Trump, the intelligence profession has been politicized to an unprecedented degree. If the same happens to the military, the military will lose credibility, says Michael Robinson at War on the Rocks. The social media performance of the top two military pundits from Ralph Peters to Tammy Duckworth confirms the point, he says.