Defense
Sunday, May 19, 2013
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4/16/2013
Introduction
The case for focusing on air dominance has its roots in the most successful of U.S. military operations. One built around it was the invasion of Normandy. Air dominance was the basis of the whole plan as briefed to General George Marshall in early 1942. “The basis was
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Features
2/27/2013
Introduction
The United States has enjoyed global air dominance for many decades. No U.S. soldier on the ground has been killed by hostile aircraft since the Korean War, and no U.S. pilot in the air has been killed
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2/7/2013
Historically the focus of the defense acquisition and sustainment system has swung pendulum-like between two policy objectives. At one end of the arc, the goal is effectiveness: insuring that the military
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10/3/2012
Findings In Brief
The U.S. Air Force operates a fleet of six dozen intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft based on the old Boeing 707 airframe that are essential to the success of the joint force.
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Defense Articles
| 10/3/2012 |
Findings In Brief
The U.S. Air Force operates a fleet of six dozen intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft based on the old Boeing 707 airframe that are essential to the success of the joint force.
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| 7/9/2012 |
Research Study
Findings In Brief
The information revolution has transformed every facet of commerce and culture, including the military enterprise. Unfortunately, it has also empowered extremists, criminals
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| 6/18/2012 |
Executive Summary
The U.S. defense budget is challenged perhaps as never before in modern times from without and within. The 2010 bipartisan Budget Control Act (BCA) imposed minimum reductions of some $480 billion over
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| 5/15/2012 |
Executive Summary
One of the most important issues to be addressed at the NATO Alliance’s upcoming summit in Chicago will be progress towards addressing significant capability gaps revealed by military operations in Iraq,
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| 5/2/2012 |
Research Study
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In the 2012 strategic guidance released in January, the president and Department of Defense (DoD) admit the global strategy of this country is now limited in reach and power due
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| 3/7/2012 |
Executive Summary
For nearly eighty years, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has been the lender of last resort for U.S. companies seeking to sell their goods abroad. Ex-Im Bank, as it is called, provides loans, loan guarantees,
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| 2/29/2012 |
Executive Summary
When Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002, it brought together 22 separate government organizations ranging from the U.S. Coast Guard to the Border Patrol. A number of these
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| 1/17/2012 |
Findings In Brief
During the Cold War, the U.S. military acquired a vast network of public-sector industrial facilities and private-sector suppliers. Over time, a division of labor emerged between the two segments of the
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| 1/10/2012 |
Remarks to the Space Enterprise Council
Thank you for the opportunity to be here today.
Unlike some of you, I do not spend a lot of my time on space.
I am a defense generalist, which means that one day I may be writing about undersea
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