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The End Of America’s Competitive Military Advantage For some 70 years, the United States has relied on its competitive advantage in finding, developing and fielding advanced military technologies to counterbalance adversaries’ and enemies’ advantages in quantities of forces, proximity to the battle spac ...
Bomber Award Will Transform The Defense Sector — If Northrop Can Execute (From Forbes) Tuesday's award of the contract for the Air Force's next bomber to Northrop Grumman was a stunning upset.  If the decision is sustained, Northrop will return to the first tier of combat aircraft integrators while Boeing will see its military aircraft o ...
Dangerous International Environment Cries Out For Larger U.S. Amphibious Fleet It has become something of a meme among military planners that we are living through a period in international relations marked by unparalleled complexity, uncertainty and even chaos. As a consequence, the military finds it hard to know how to respond ...
Next-Gen GPS: Success Hinges On Sticking With Troubled Ground Control Program (From Forbes) The Global Positioning System is a valued military asset and part of the nation's critical infrastructure.  Without it, our smart bombs wouldn't work, our smart phones would be less useful, and we'd get lost in strange neighborhoods.  But there are pro ...
EVENT: Defense Acquisition Reform – Friday, November 13, 2015 The Lexington Institute is organizing a Capitol Hill forum on Friday, November 13th to discuss ways of improving management and procurement at the defense department, and how that department might become a better customer. The purpose of this conferenc ...
Ten Valuable Things America Will Lose If The Export-Import Bank Dies (From Forbes) On October 23, I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's subcommittee on terrorism, non-proliferation and trade about the consequences of not reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, America's sole export-credit agency.  I told the members ...
The National Commission On The Future Of The Army Needs To Answer Two Simple Questions The impetus for the creation of the National Commission on the Future of the Army (NCFA) was the proposal by that Service’s leadership to move all Apache attack helicopters from the National Guard into the Active Component and replace them with some 11 ...
Greece’s Place in the New Russian-NATO Cold War Moscow’s recent aggressive actions have resulted in General Joseph Dunford declaring Russia the greatest security threat to the United States. Moscow poses an existential threat to Washington because it has a large nuclear arsenal, which Russian Presid ...
The U.S. Army Needs A “Small Five” Modernization Strategy The organization and capabilities of today’s Army have much to do with the success of a handful of modernization efforts known collectively as the “Big Five.” The Big Five consisted of the Abrams main battle tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle, the Apac ...
Why America Can’t Beat China Without A New Bomber (From Forbes) China has embarked on a strategy to dominate East Asia, which will require displacing America from its leading military role in the region.  If that leads to war, the U.S. will need a much more capable heavy bomber fleet than it possesses today.  Geogr ...
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