Observing Veterans Day – War on the Rocks

NGA Campus East

FORT BELVOIR NORTH AREA, Va. -- Members of a Department of Defense color guard await the start of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Change of Director ceremony here Aug. 9, 2010. The ceremony was held to transfer leadership of the NGA to Letitia A. Long, who comes to NGA from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where she served as the DIA deputy director from May 2006 until July 2010. The ceremony was held on the site of NGA Campus East (NCE), a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure project program which will consolidate various offices of NGA into a single campus here. Along with NGA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes)

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on the first Veteran’s Day honored by War on the Rocks in 2013. Today is the first Veterans Day observed since War on the Rocks launched. In our short history, we’ve published pieces on war and conflict, diplomacy, defense policy, military strategy, and foreign affairs. As strategists, observers … Continue reading Observing Veterans Day