Greetings from historic Plymouth, Massachusetts, home of the first Thanksgiving feast. I know it's that time of year, because Native Americans are down at Plymouth Rock protesting. Local shopkeepers. . . Read more.

President Barack Obama has just fallen below the 50% job approval rating mark for the first time in the RCP polling average (www.realclearpolitics.com).. . . Read more.

The reputations of Jefferson, Hamilton and Adams tend to ebb and flow with cultural, economic and political trends, while George Washington is a massive glacier, grinding down the generations and leaving. . . Read more.

The White House announced that the president will unveil his new strategy for Afghanistan next Tuesday night. When he goes before the Nation he will own the war in Afghanistan. By all accounts, the president. . . Read more.

This blog has raised some issues over the months about the actual as opposed to perceived strength of the Chinese economy, their published economic statistics, and underlying social and political pressures. . . Read more.

President Barack Obama has put together a high-powered team of political, uniformed and civilian appointees at the Navy Department.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is a politician's politician. . . Read more.

Defense budgets are going to decline, even as the United States continues to fight two wars. In addition, there are critical modernization programs such as the F-35 joint strike fighter, expanded. . . Read more.

Last week, the House Armed Services Committee held hearings on the implications of long-term U.S. defense budget trends. The common conclusion reached by four witnesses, including senior analysts. . . Read more.

Global warming appears to have stalled, according to scientists interviewed in the November 19 issue of Spiegel . . . Read more.

Oppenheimer & Co. financial analyst Myles Walton foresees a major contraction in U.S. defense demand over the next several years. In a November 5 note, Walton stated, "We still expect a typical multi-year. . . Read more.

Defense appropriations insiders say Representative Jack Murtha is resisting a major unit-cost increase for the C-17 cargo plane in ongoing negotiations over the fiscal 2010 budget. Although Murtha. . . Read more.

As a life-long believer in free-market capitalism and someone who opposed TARP, the stimulus package, the pay czar and cap-and-trade, it pains me to say that it is time for the government to take. . . Read more.

Unity of command is one of the basic principles of war. It means that the forces employed for a given operation, regardless of its magnitude, complexity or duration, must be under a single command. . . Read more.

Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg Business News reported on Monday that China is "close to fielding the. . . Read more.

Last June, General Electric Chairman Jeffrey Immelt visited Detroit and issued a clarion call . . . Read more.

Weapons systems cost too much, take too long to be designed and built, and then are often a nightmare to modernize and maintain. This is why the Obama Administration has made acquisition reform one. . . Read more.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision Friday to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in U.S. federal court would seem to be yet another piece of evidence that the Obama Administration considers the. . . Read more.

Last week, the Government Accountability Office dismissed my November 6 blog posting that raised the possibility it might have a conflict of interest in judging tanker protests. GAO is responsible. . . Read more.

The Missile Defense Agency faces some big challenges as it adjusts its investment agenda to the priorities of the Obama Administration. First, it has been directed to put more emphasis on interception. . . Read more.

Andrea Shalal-Esa of Reuters reported this week that deliveries of the alternate engine being developed by General Electric and Rolls Royce for the F-35 joint strike fighter will be delayed by a year.. . . Read more.

Since he was reappointed as Secretary of Defense by the Obama Administration, Robert Gates has been on a crusade to reshape the U.S. military. As he has said repeatedly, his dominant strategic concern. . . Read more.

Northrop Grumman sent us the following rebuttal to my tanker brief of November 9, in which I explained why Boeing believes the recent World Trade Organization . . . Read more.

On April 8, two days after defense secretary Robert Gates proposed huge cuts to military investment programs, the Pentagon's comptroller signaled where all the money saved will end up going. It will. . . Read more.

With all the media’s attention being focused on health care legislation, strategies for Afghanistan and rampaging shooters in Texas, it is not surprising that virtually no one noticed the publication. . . Read more.

The Army is getting ready to roll out its vision of the new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV), the system intended to serve the role once planned for the manned ground vehicles of the defunct Future Combat. . . Read more.

December 17 will mark the 40th anniversary of the day in 1969 when the first C-5 Galaxy cargo plane was delivered to the U.S. Air Force. In some quarters that milestone might be cause for celebration,. . . Read more.

Tragically for the people of Iran, the Obama Administration’s efforts to engage that country are likely to end in failure. In the aftermath of the June 12 popular uprising against the rigged presidential. . . Read more.

It was twenty years ago today when the Berlin Wall came down and democracy began spreading fast into Eastern Europe. I made two predictions that day.

The first was since socialist economics had. . . Read more.

It was distressing to open yesterday’s Washington Times, a newspaper that I believe provides some of the best coverage in the country of defense issues, and find an article on the Stryker wheeled. . . Read more.

As I noted in a posting on October 30, the Obama Administration is enforcing tighter conflict-of-interest standards on who may provide technical assistance to the. . . Read more.