Defense
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 ...
This Is No Time To Be Buying Additional Russian Rocket Engines No military in the world is as critically dependent as ours on space. Reliance on space assets for military purposes requires assured access and assured access is a function, in turn, of the ability to lift payloads into space at a variety of altitudes ...
Air Force Can’t Rescue Many At-Risk Warriors Without More CV-22B Ospreys (From Forbes) The U.S. Air Force maintains an elite community of warriors whose job it is to rescue at-risk combatants and civilians. Sometimes they are downed pilots, sometimes they are troops trapped behind enemy lines, sometimes they are non-combatants who could ...
Greece Has A Long History of Defending the West Only five of 28 NATO members meet the alliance goal of dedicating two percent of gross domestic product to defense: the United States, United Kingdom, Estonia, Poland and Greece. As threats increase around the European continent, including a potential ...
Marines Say Amphibious Combat Vehicle Is A Must-Have As Danger Of Going Ashore Grows (From Forbes) Amphibious warfare is the defining mission of the U.S. Marine Corps, but it's getting increasingly dangerous. Many littoral states now have anti-ship missiles that can hit amphibious warships far over the horizon. And once Marines get ashore, they ha ...
On Vladimir Putin, Black Swans And Pink Flamingoes A few years back there was a popular concept in international affairs and intelligence analysis called the Black Swan Theory. The theory, popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, sought to explain the prevalence in human affairs of big but highly improbab ...
U.S. Rearmament Must Begin Now The current struggles in Washington over the FY2016 National Defense Authorization Act, increases or decreases in overseas contingency operations spending, busting or keeping budget caps and the duration of any continuing resolution make for great thea ...
Five Ways The Pentagon’s Anti-Merger Outburst Will Backfire (From Forbes) Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall delivered some muddled pronouncements on defense mergers last week, suggesting that companies like Lockheed Martin shouldn't be allowed to get too big even if their size raises no antitrust issues. That view do ...
Perhaps It Is Time To Downsize AT&L In a recent speech at a defense and aerospace industry conference, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall repeated the long-held view of the Obama Defense Department that major defense corporations should not be allowed to merge. Mr. Kendall and the ...