The centralizing reforms that culminated in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 did much to weld America's armed services into the preeminent military force of the late twentieth century.

We are in bad need of intelligence reform, but Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, is too far removed from the agencies that might need changing.

The "Battle of the Generals" is really no battle at all.

Two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, it is time to adjust our military for the post-Cold War world.

Our military system was designed to fight a single powerful enemy--the Soviet Union--and is poorly structured for the kind of wars we are likely to face.

Without bold dramatic change at the State Department, the United States will soon find itself on the defensive everywhere except militarily.

The capacity of the US military is both dangerously small and imperfectly shaped for the coming decades.

Representative Jane Harman (D-Calif.) discusses intelligence reform.