Defense

Venerable Jones Act Provides An Important Barrier To Terrorist Infiltration Of The Homeland The debate of enhancing U.S. border security has focused almost exclusively on illegal movement of people and drugs into the southern United States from Mexico. Yet, the southern border is actually the smallest at 1,989 miles. The U.S. border with Cana ...
Speech: Crete is NATO’s Permanent Aircraft Carrier in the Eastern Med This speech was given by Dan Goure at the Lexington Institute’s and the American Hellenic Institute’s Capitol Hill briefing titled “Souda Bay: NATO’s Military Gem” on March 21, 2016. Click here to watch a video of the speech. The Middle East is afire, ...
Brussels Attacks: How The Terrorists Want You To React (From Forbes) It will take some time to sort out the carnage that terrorists caused in Brussels Tuesday, but it is already clear what kind responses are likely to encourage further atrocities.  First, terrorists want the public to overreact, conferring on their acti ...
Souda Bay: NATO’s Military Gem in the Eastern Mediterranean Click here to download the full study as PDF. Executive Summary The Middle East is afire, Russia is on the march and France, the United Kingdom, the United States and dozens of other countries are at war with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Ea ...
Boeing Warns Capacity Constraints Could Kill Air Force Radar Plane (From Forbes) The Air Force needs to replace its JSTARS radar planes, which provide invaluable reconnaissance to the joint force about enemy ground movements.  The current radar is hosted on second-hand Boeing 707 jetliners, and the service figures it could avoid $1 ...
The Future Of Conflict And The U.S. Army’s Big 8 Initiative Enjoy what is left of the peace of the post-Cold War. We are entering a new era of great power conflict and, potentially, one of major wars. As the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Robert Work, recently observed: “The most significant shift in the future s ...
Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carriers: The Nation’s Number One Asymmetric Military Advantage There has been a lot of talk lately by senior Pentagon officials that the U.S. military is losing its long-held advantages in high-end warfighting capabilities. If one accepted uncritically statements by the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary and U ...
Electronic Warfare: How The U.S. Army Could Lose Its Next War (From Forbes) The digital revolution has transformed the U.S. Army.  Soldiers have acquired a host of sensors and communications gear that enables information dominance in the fight against terrorists and insurgents.  However, in the fight against more capable adver ...
ISIS Is Getting Too Close To Europe, Time to Respond The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has increased its presence in Libya, a formerly wealthy oil state on the Mediterranean, in the past year. The terrorist group has 5,000 to 6,500 fighters in Libya and controls almost 200 miles of coastline. ISIS h ...
B-21 Bomber: Five Questions The Air Force Must Answer (From Forbes) The contract for the Air Force's B-21 bomber has barely been awarded, and already members of Congress are asking tough questions.  Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, states flatly that he will not allow development to ...
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