Defense

Why Nuclear Modernization Is A Must-Have For America One of the biggest budget challenges the next presidential administration will face is how to fund the modernization of the strategic deterrent of bombers, submarines, and land-based missiles. While this “triad” protects the American homeland from nucl ...
Boeing Turns 100: Five Reasons It Survived While Competitors Died (from Forbes) Boeing celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding this week.  Few of its competitors will ever reach such a milestone, which raises the question of how Boeing managed to survive and thrive in a hyper-competitive industry during a period of contin ...
What Boeing Has Meant For America: A Centennial Assessment Findings In Brief  Click here to download the study as PDF. An Enterprise Unlike Any Other. The Boeing Company was founded on July 15, 1916. Over the following century, Boeing became the biggest aerospace enterprise in the world, famous for its jetline ...
Air Force Needs To Pull The Trigger On An RFP For A New Jet Trainer The U.S. Air Force flies the most modern combat aircraft and the oldest trainers of any major air force on Earth. In a world in which the difference between winning and losing in combat is most often a matter of the quality of military personnel and th ...
Air Force Fixes Faltering Control System For Leap-Ahead GPS III (From National Interest) The Global Positioning System is a central feature of the critical infrastructure supporting modern civilization, and GPS III satellites that begin launching next year will deliver big improvements in accuracy, security and reliability.  However, the " ...
National Guard Poised For Major Role In Power Grid Security It is a tribute to the genius of America’s Founding Fathers that the system of government they created, based on the principle of distributed power and responsibility or federalism, continues to serve us so well.  A wonderful example of this is the gro ...
China’s Growing Economic Role In Greece and Europe Could Create Security Problems For America China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative aims to develop a string of ports, logistics hubs and other infrastructure from Asia to Europe. Since 2010, China has infused Europe with a lot of cash, and Greece is one example of a European country that has in ...
Why SpaceX Lost Its Bid To Ban Russian Rocket Engines (From Forbes) The most bitterly contested issue this year in Senate floor debate of the National Defense Authorization Act was whether the Pentagon would be able to continue using Russian rocket engines to launch military satellites.  SpaceX mounted a major lobbying ...
NATO vs. Russia: How to Counter the Hybrid Warfare Challenge (from The National Interest) As NATO prepares for its summit in Warsaw, the leaders of the Alliance’s 28 nations will try to put a good face on what is clearly a deteriorating security situation on the Continent. Government officials, diplomats and military leaders are wringing th ...
Could Terrorists Pick America’s Next President? (from National Interest) Although the Obama Administration has done a good job of keeping terrorists out of the United States, it has not been able to prevent them from invading the American psyche.  Voters are so concerned with the terrorist threat that a single attack within ...
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