Foxy Links 23-Feb-12

• Intelligence community fears national security implications of manufacturing decline. This is one of the scariest articles I’ve read in some time in terms of the long-term implications for US security. We won in WWII because of the mountains of materiel we were able to put to use against the Nazi’s and Japanese – our ability to win a future war may depend on the same level of flexibility.
• Options for dealing with Syria and ending the Assad regime. Interesting breakdown from the Small Wars Journal.
• I disagree, but this is a well reasoned and thoughful defense of the USS GABRIELLE GIFFORDS naming.