Defense
U.S. Experience In Iraq Can Teach NATO How To Hunt Russia’s “Little Green Men” (from National Interest) Much has been made over the past three years of the asymmetric or hybrid warfare conducted by Russia in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The essence of this supposedly new type of warfare involves the use of non-traditional instruments of state power – ...
U.S. Overseas Bases Are Much More Vulnerable Than Aircraft Carriers (From National Interest) There's been a lot of talk recently about the threat posed to U.S. aircraft carriers by the anti-access/area-denial strategies of countries like China. If you understand how resilient and well-defended U.S. aircraft carriers are, then you probably alr ...
Anti-Missile Arms Race Heating Up It was only a matter of time. As major powers, rogue regimes and terrorist groups acquired and, in a number of instances, employed increasingly sophisticated arsenals of rockets and ballistic missiles, those countries that found themselves under the gu ...
Pilots Say F-35 Fighter Is A Winner. So Where’s The Media Coverage? (from Forbes) In the 15 years since the development contract for the tri-service F-35 fighter was first awarded, the program has been subjected to frequent negative reporting from national media. A raft of real or imagined problems was dissected, sometimes in great ...
Five In Five: Capabilities The Army Needs For Future Conflicts (from Army Magazine) The United States and its allies are facing the increased prospect of war within the next few years with state and non-state adversaries that are better organized and equipped than they have ever been. By contrast, our military has been denied nearly t ...
Second SpaceX Launch Disaster In 14 Months Hands Air Force, NASA A Big Headache (From Forbes) The September 1 explosion of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral will undoubtedly raise concern among customers about how reliable SpaceX's main product offering is. This is the second time in 14 months Falcon 9 has suffered a catastrophic los ...
Sea Services Preparing To Transform Amphibious Operations (from National Interest) In 2018 the Marine Corps and Navy expect to mark a radical change in the capability of their joint formation, the Marine Expeditionary Unit/Amphibious Readiness Group (MEU/ARG). That year will see the Marine Corps deploy the fifth-generation short take ...
America First: What A Trump Defense Strategy Would Look Like (From Forbes) Donald Trump is within hailing distance of a majority in the electoral college, so it is time to start taking seriously his policy pronouncements on subjects besides immigration and trade. On defense, it is not hard to see what a President Trump would ...
Slimmed Down WIN-T Increment 2 Critical to U.S. Army’s Warfighting Capability (from National Interest) For more than 10 years, modernization of Army C3 has been tied directly to fielding of a single capability, the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical. WIN-T provides Army field units down to the battalion level with secure high-speed, high-capacity v ...
How A Looming Fiscal Crisis Could Doom America’s Military Edge (From National Interest) The Congressional Budget Office has issued a bleak assessment of fiscal trends indicating that federal deficits will return to a trillion dollars annually midway through the next decade. Since ballooning deficits were the reason the Budget Control Act ...