In my intro to last year’s collection of opinion and analysis pieces, I started with this line: “In many ways, 2023 was a year of chaos.”
Rather than writing this, I really could have just cut and pasted that intro and changed some dates, because 2024 wasn’t any calmer. The wars in Ukraine and Israel expanded, major Pentagon programs found themselves fighting for their lives and a presidential election dominated America’s attention.
All of which is to say, the defense community had a lot of thoughts in 2024, which is why Breaking Defense published over 85 opinion and analysis pieces this year. Below, we’ve collected a small handful of those that we think really stood out, whether because they came from newsmakers, because of their topicality, or because of the way they drove the conversation.
Of course, we could only select a limited number of the pieces we ran for this eBook, which means a lot of great stuff got left on the cutting room floor. For this collection, we largely avoided the many excellent news-of-the-moment pieces (such as how Congress should approach the budget) that are less relevant months later, even though those pieces helped define the discussion at the time. Also not fully represented here is our “NATO’s Northern Edge” collection, published around the alliance’s 75th Anniversary in Washington and featuring pieces from top officials from Norway, Finland, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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