Author Archives: Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D
Hidden Danger: The Threat To America’s Networks
Research Study
• Digital networks are the nervous system of our civilization, essential to commerce and culture. The entire economy, from banking to utilities to manufacturing to healthcare, relies on internet-style communications. Even the military has reorganized for what it [Read More...]
Air Power: The Navy Needs More Super Hornets
Issue Brief
During the recent presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Barack Obama stressed in his principle defense position paper the need to preserve our military’s “unparalleled air power” and capacity for “power projection at sea.” Mr. Obama cited a few of [Read More...]
Economic Security: We Must Save American Manufacturing
Issue Brief
Many Americans find economics boring. For such people, Republican economics in the era of Bush and Reagan has been a godsend. The Republican economic model basically says, “deregulate everything, and then stand back so the market can work [Read More...]
Memo to Demo’s: Missile Defense Is Our Top Military Need
Issue Brief
With America’s economy facing the worst outlook in three generations, it isn’t hard to figure out where the next administration — the Obama Administration — will focus most of its attention. What could be worse than credit markets [Read More...]
Satellite Cancellation Raises Questions About Army Plans
Issue Brief
Pentagon policymakers tentatively decided this weekend to terminate a competition for the military’s next generation of communications satellites. The program was supposed to give each warfighter easy, secure access to the global information grid as part of the [Read More...]
Five Reasons Weapons Spending Won’t Fall
Issue Brief
The Reagan Revolution has collapsed. Over the next eight years a resurgent Democratic Party will raise taxes, re-regulate the economy and rethink free trade. Judging from the size of the nation’s trade and budget deficits, these steps are [Read More...]
Future Security: Keeping TSAT On Track Is Essential
Issue Brief
Over the last eight years, America’s military has been transformed. Unfortunately, it has been transformed as much by the actions of our adversaries as by the vision of change that President Bush’s Pentagon team advanced. Who could have [Read More...]
Missile Defense: The World Has Changed
Presentation
Today marks the beginning of a new federal fiscal year, and it doesn’t take great insight to grasp that this year’s budget deliberations are likely to be a bit different from those of previous years.
For starters, many believe [Read More...]
Why The Navy Wants To Rethink Its Next Destroyer
Issue Brief
In mid-summer the Navy outraged some of its strongest supporters on Capitol Hill by proposing to end a next-generation destroyer program after building only two vessels, potentially squandering billions of dollars in development money. The service said threats [Read More...]
United Nations Has A Better Solution For Cluster Bombs
Issue Brief
The global community is gradually moving to ban conventional weapons that are deemed too indiscriminate in their effects to comply with prevailing standards of behavior in wartime. Weapons such as land mines pose risks for non-combatants that are [Read More...]