by Ed Offley, Author
The web offers a number of ways to track everything from defense policy, to the home bases of various battalions, to the kinds of equipment being used. Below some of the web addresses that Seattle Post-Intelligencer and military author Ed Offley suggests.
Primary Links:
Department of Defense
Defenselink: Primary web portal for DoD
http://www.defenselink.mil/
Secretary of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/osd/topleaders.html
Joint Chiefs of Staff
http://www.dtic.mil/jcs/
U.S. Army
http://www.army.mil/
U.S. Navy
http://www.navy.mil/
U.S. Air Force
http://www.af.mil/
U.S. Marine Corps
http://www.usmc.mil/
U.S. Coast Guard
http://www.uscg.mil/
Unified Combatant Commands:
U.S. Central Command
http://www.centcom.mil/
U.S. European Command
http://www.eucom.mil/
U.S. Joint Forces Command
http://www.jfcom.mil/
U.S. Pacific Command
http://www.pacom.mil/
U.S. Southern Command
http://www.southcom.mil/
U.S. Space Command
http://www.spacecom.af.mil/
U.S. Special Operations Command
http://www.socom.mil/
U.S. Strategic Command
http://www.stratcom.mil/
U.S. Transportation Command
http://www.transcom.mil/
Independent Research Institutions:
Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.org/
Business Executives for National Security
http://www.bens.org/
Cato Institute
http://www.cato.org/
Center for Defense Information
http://www.cdi.org/
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
http://www.csbaonline.org/
Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.csis.org/
Defense and the National Interest
http://www.d-n-i.net/
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/
Project on Government Oversight
http://www.pogo.org/
Project for the New American Century
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Rand Corp.
http://www.rand.org/
Military.com Reference Channels:
This commercial web portal has a number of useful reference channels for quick access to military and veterans' sites:
Defense Industry and Veteran Associations
http://www.military.com/UnReg/Association/1,11228,,00.html
Military Equipment -- From artillery to vehicles to uniforms, what's in the field
http://www.military.com/Resources/EQG/EQGmain
Military Installations -- What troops are based where
http://www.military.com/InstallationGuides/ChooseInstallation/1,11400,,00.html
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