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Navy Morphing LCS From Ugly Duckling Into Fighting Bantam Lost, or at least overlooked, in all the hubbub created by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s decision to radically restructure the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program and ongoing sniping from some ill-informed individuals about performance and cost issu ...
Arming Vietnam: Ideology Takes A Backseat To Pragmatism in Obama’s Foreign Policy (From Forbes) Critics of the Obama Administration's foreign policy complain that it spends too much time promoting American values and too little time addressing concrete concerns like trade and security.  However, that is not the picture coming out of Vietnam this ...
Capitol Hill Event: Defense Acquisition Reform – 6.3.16 The Lexington Institute is organizing a Capitol Hill forum on Friday, June 3rd to discuss defense acquisition reform opportunities. We hope you will be able to attend.   Speakers to date include: Mr. Peter B. Bechtel, Director, Capabilities Integr ...
Banning Russian Rocket Engines Will Increase Costs And Risks (From Forbes) The Senate this week is debating whether to ban use of Russian rocket engines on U.S. government space launches.  That might make sense when better domestic propulsion options are available, but doing it anytime soon could actually hurt the U.S. in sev ...
What’s In It For America? How Trump Would Change Our Global Posture If He Wins The Presidency (From Forbes) Contrary to what his critics claim, Donald Trump's views on how Washington should change its foreign policy are coherent and consistent.  First, he thinks economic globalization has been bad for America, so he would rethink free trade and the notion of ...
British Defense Ministry Continues To Pioneer Transformation Of Military Logistics The current budgetary environment requires that the Department of Defense (DoD) make the most efficient use of all its resources – money, personnel and time – reducing costs and improving outcomes wherever possible. According to the Under Secretary of ...
Attempts To Downplay Growing Russian Military Threat Won’t Wash Thankfully, the Russian military is not ten feet tall. No one said it is. But that is the way some unnamed civilian Pentagon officials want to spin the legitimate concerns of senior military officers regarding the challenges posed by the improved capab ...
Five Reasons Defense Companies Need To Be Really Big To Survive (From Forbes) Recent Pentagon complaints that the defense industry has become too concentrated are misguided.  Bigness is a prerequisite for surviving in a business where the threats that drive demand are unpredictable and the monopsony customer can't be counted on ...
GM’s Technology Revolution: Why The Pentagon Should Put Its Next Innovation Center In Detroit (From Forbes) The Pentagon is pressing hard to foster greater commercial-military collaboration in innovating, but it needs to look beyond the narrow confines of Silicon Valley and Boston.  One place worth visiting is General Motors headquarters in Detroit, where Am ...
Putin Strategy Fails To Stop Deployment Of Missile Defenses In Europe Today marks the first significant setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Europe. For more than two years, Russia has been on the march in Europe and elsewhere, undermining the political and economic systems of neighboring countries, ...
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