Defense
The US Needs To Counter Russia And China In Africa (From RealClearDefense)
The United States must start paying more attention to Africa. China and Russia are. For the past decade, Xi Jinping has steadily improved China’s African presence through significant infrastructure projects and financial investments. China recently cel ...
Poland Needs A Lot More Abrams Tanks, Fast
The US-Poland defense partnership is the key to NATO deterrence of Russian aggression. Why? Because Russia is rearming far faster than expected. The new strategic reality in Europe is that it will take tanks in Poland to stop Russia. “We are living ...
Current Conflicts Demonstrate Need For More And Better Tanks In Eastern Europe (From RealClearDefense)
Until recently, it was a commonly held view among Western defense experts was that the age of large-scale armored warfare ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and that the MBT, the central fighting platform of that period, was increasingly irrel ...
Lexington: April 19, 1775
On April 19, the Lexington Institute honors our namesake historical event. On April 19, 1775, a company of 70 defiant Massachusetts militiamen met the British redcoats at Lexington and in the battle fired the “shot heard round the world.” The Minute ...
Washington Asked Beijing To Control Tehran (From CBS Radio)
Just last week, the State Department was calling their counterparts in China asking Beijing to use its influence with Iran to call off its attack on Israel. While the US had terrific intelligence and knew about the attack, which took place on Saturday, ...
Israel’s Near-Perfect Missile Success Had A Special Line Of Defense (From Fox News)
Diplomacy and deterrence failed, but on Saturday the U.S. military stepped in to help protect Israel against the unprecedented attack from Iran. A near-perfect missile defense, beginning with U.S. planes and warships, brought down 170 drones, 30 cruise ...
US Is ‘Not As Prepared’ As We Should Be Amid Israel-Iran Conflict: Arnold Punaro (From Fox Business)
Due to conflicts and tensions on multiple fronts around the world, the US military has to significantly enhance its deterrence capability. Not only that, the US has to reestablish credibility that it will actually use its deterrence measures. It is not ...
Unexpected But Welcome: US Navy’s Amphibious Warship Plan Supported Across Political Parties & Government Branches (From Marine Link)
Here’s some good news for America’s sea power. While the U.S. Navy has initiated another review of its 30-year shipbuilding plan in the face of widespread dissatisfaction, one element within that plan has been praised: the decision to provide funding f ...
5 Reasons Why A Top Chinese Hacker Gang And Their Friends Could Wreak Havoc On US (From Fox News)
You may never have heard of Threat Actor Storm-0558, but this top Chinese hacker gang broke into the State Department computer systems via Microsoft Exchange Online last spring and read emails for several weeks before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken ...
Low Earth Orbit Is A High-Value Domain (From RealClearDefense)
Low Earth Orbit – known as LEO – is the future for communications satellites. It’s also a high-value domain for national security. And it’s getting crowded. Elon Musk’s Starlink has over 5500 satellites on orbit and just launched 23 more Friday morning ...