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August 31 2010
YPNation's Michael Podguski and William Schirano, two Washington, D.C.-based defense policy analysts, go to head to head as President Barack Obama addresses the nation regarding the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Watch their debate by clicking here. |
August 30 2010
Matt Persiani, a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, is serving his third tour in Iraq. As U.S. troops withdraw from the restive country, Persiani talks about the quieter days of his service.
To call Iraq a war zone now is a bit of a stretch, especially when comparing it to the battlefields on which our... |
July 12 2010
I'm hardly one to stick up for Michael Steele. |
June 24 2010
General Stanley McChrystal’s recent comments about his civilian peers in the Obama administration have left the sometimes-controversial former commander of the war in Afghanistan standing in the unemployment line. To be sure, McChrystal did cross the threshold of professional decorum in today’s military and for that, he needed to be held accountable. But the General was not insubordinate. In fact, his perspective... |
June 4 2010
The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review Report (pdf) has been anything but a strategic watershed for U.S. nuclear policy. A congressionally-mandated review that establishes the nuclear policy, strategy, force posture, and capabilities of the United States for the next five to ten years, this NPR aggressively promotes the... |
April 13 2010
Last week the Obama administration released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and the President signed the new START (strategic arms reduction treaty) with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. This week, leaders from more than 40 nations have convened in Washington, D.C. for the Nuclear Security Summit to discuss global nuclear risk and a strategy for controlling insecure nuclear materials. YPNation spoke with William Schirano... |
March 29 2010
A couple of months ago I wrote an article on why reinstating the draft would only degrade the quality and effectiveness of the U.S. armed forces. As a member of the armed forces, I firmly believe that keeping the military an all-volunteer force is in the best interests of this country. So I was not only shocked by the amount of responses I... |
March 26 2010
I am not a health care analyst. Although I dabbled in macro health-related policy in graduate school, I could tell you very little about the intricacies of our health care system. But this post really doesn't have much to do with health care policy, rather it's my take as to how we got to where we are today. |
March 15 2010
Our chariot was a C-17 cargo plane, full of cargo. The Crew Chief pushed us down the side of a couple of large cargo containers, which look like trailers off of an 18-wheeler Mack truck, and around a couple of Army Humvees to our black canvas troop seats that fold down from the side of the aircraft. These are the same seats paratroopers’ use prior to jumping. It's a five-hour flight to Germany... |
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