Defense

Is the Migration Crisis the End of the European Union as we know it? The crush of migrants flooding Europe pose both a security and political threat to the Continent in many ways as serious as that of Russian military aggression. As Balázs Orbán, Director of Research for the Szazadveg Foundation, a Hungarian think tank, ...
New Pentagon Contract Signals Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Airlifter Is Headed For 100 Years Of Service (From Forbes) The Pentagon disclosed on December 30 that it will be ordering 78 more C-130J Super Hercules airlifters under a new multiyear contract.  That's good news for the joint force, which relies on an aging fleet of C-130s for everything from resupply of remo ...
It Takes A Lot Of The Right Aircraft To Be A Superpower In fact, it takes a lot of everything to conduct even one air operation much less meet the requirements of a global superpower. By the standards of modern air warfare, the campaign against ISIS (Operation Inherent Resolve) is not a big affair. Neverthe ...
Would President Trump Be Able To Save The U.S. Defense Industrial Base? One of Republican Candidate for President Donald Trump’s main campaign themes is that he will make America a winner again. He will do so, he asserts, by negotiating better treaties, whether on trade or non-proliferation, reining in government oversight ...
Coming To Naval Surface Warfare: A Revolution In Guns And Ammunition (From Forbes) The Surface Navy Association is holding its 28th National Symposium near the nation's capital this week, and a key focus of discussion will be increasing the firepower of U.S. warships in response to what Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richards ...
It’s Like Watching A Slow Motion Nuclear Car Wreck The world increasingly looks like one of those avant garde movies or TV advertisements for car insurance where vehicles collide with one another or pedestrians in slow motion. It is absolutely clear what is unfolding, the death and destruction that is ...
Missing U.S. Leadership And A Fraying International Order (from inFocus) How much worse does the international security environment have to get before it is obvious to even the most casual observer that strong U.S. leadership in the world matters? Certainly not every problem in the world can be laid at the feet of the Obama ...
LCS: No Way To Run A Multi-Billion Dollar Acquisition Program For critics of the way the Department of Defense (DoD) manages procurement of weapons systems, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program must be the gift that keeps on giving. Just before Christmas, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter presented the Navy wi ...
As Boeing Turns 100, Defense Ops Look Pivotal To Its Future Performance (From Forbes) The Obama years have been good for Boeing, the world's biggest aerospace company, but most of its gains have been made on the commercial side.  Surging demand for jetliners has lifted the company's share price from below 30 around the time that Preside ...
The Future is in Regional Missile Defense Architectures The United States and its allies in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia face a growing threat from theater ballistic and cruise missiles. Competitors and potential adversaries, including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as well as terrorist group ...
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