Author Archives: Merrick "Mac" Carey
Sequestration And The Military Depots The defense department’s logistics system and supply chain face unprecedented challenges. Most obvious is the continuing and growing pressure on defense budgets. Pentagon officials have begun to focus on reducing costs in the supply chain in their attempts to cope [Read More...]
Romney’s Choice For Vice President Could Be Crucial In Election Outcome and Beyond Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has maintained his status as likely GOP presidential nominee in 2012, and early speculation is starting on his most important personnel decision: a nominee for Vice President. The VP choice is important, because the Vice [Read More...]
Military Logistics Sector Has Positioned Itself Well For Any Downturn In Spending With all eyes on the Congressional Super Committee and potential sequestration of defense department funding, many observers are wondering what Washington’s budget wars may mean for the $100 billion military logistics and sustainment business. Over the last ten years years [Read More...]
Lexington Founder Jim Courter Turns 70 Former Congressman and Base Closing Chairman Jim Courter turns 70 today. Courter is also Chairman of the Lexington Institute, where he has been a key organizer, policy advisor and fundraiser since we opened our doors in 1998.
I met Jim [Read More...]
New Times Demand New Ideas: Defense Contractors Should Consider Commercial Diversification On Friday I posted a blog on the brutally difficult planning environment A&D strategists find themselves in. And as the blog was being posted the world’s third largest economy and a very close American ally, Japan, got swamped by a [Read More...]
Big Changes Coming For A&D As Pax Americana Slips Away The U.S. aerospace and defense sector is on pins and needles. No one can exactly pin-point it, but there is a whiff of big change in the air, the expectations of a pivotal shift in the sector’s fortunes. With all [Read More...]
Economic Miracle In China China has been reporting annual growth rates of 8-10 percent for as long as anyone can remember. Those are the highest growth rates in the recorded history of economics, and while they have been met with some skepticism at the [Read More...]
Reagan’s Legacy Is In Doubt The country has just finished an impressive celebration of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. It was an appropriately uplifting series of events and discussions in honor of the Great Communicator.
Yet a low fog crept in on the birthday party as [Read More...]
Romney Has Right Personality, Wrong Policies For GOP Primary Voters GOP presidential primary voters tend to prefer long-distance runners for their nominees. Successful candidates often have to run multiple times to win recognition from these discerning voters. Think Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., Dole and McCain.
And those voters have a [Read More...]
Happy New Year, And Thank You For A Great Year Lexington Institute’s staff is scattering into the hinterlands for the holidays. Unless something really big happens over the next ten days, you won’t be hearing much from Lexington or this web-site until the new year. I’d like to end the [Read More...]