Defense
Frank Rose: The Impact of Emerging Security Challenges on Strategic Stability
Frank Rose is Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, and a long-time Capitol Hill, Pentagon and State Department security leader. Attached is his "farewell address" at the University of Virginia after eight years in the Obama State Department, ...
Near-Term U.S. Army Modernization: Buying What Is Available and Buying Time
Executive Summary Click here to download the full study as PDF. The U.S. Army is rapidly losing its competitive advantages in high-end combat. The ability to achieve tactical overmatch, that combination of superior systems, intelligence, combined arms ...
“Distributed Lethality” Is The Surface Navy’s Strategy For The Trump Era (From Forbes)
The Navy's surface warfare community has embraced a new strategy for assuring sea control in the future that focuses on dispersing fleet assets rather than concentrating them. It is called "distributed lethality," and it is designed to greatly complic ...
Cyber Threats to the U.S. Electric Grid Are Real (From The National Interest)
On December 30th, the Washington Post incorrectly reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid through a Vermont utility. While this story ended up being an error as malicious code was found in a computer which was not connected ...
Why Donald Trump Must Prepare for War if he Wants Peace with Russia (from The National Interest)
How can the incoming President achieve a good relationship with Russia, one in which this country is respected by the Kremlin far more than it is at present? The answer can be found in the words of the ancient Roman, Vegetius. Mr. President-elect Trump ...
Sales Outlook Brightens For Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter (From Forbes)
When President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on December 22 that he had asked Boeing to price-out an alternative to the F-35 fighter based on the company's F/A-18 Super Hornet, he stunned the defense industry. Most observers had expected Super Hornet pro ...
President-elect Trump Needs To Prepare To Fight A Massive Information War (from The National Interest)
Yesterday’s hearings by the Senate Armed Services Committee on cyber threats highlighted the fact that the United States is at war on multiple fronts with Russia, China and several lesser powers. This is not a war in the traditional sense. It involves ...
Defense Contracting: The Pentagon’s Obamacare (from The National Interest)
The 115th Congress is now in session and the first order of business for the Republican majority is to repeal Obamacare. President-elect Trump campaigned on the slogan of repealing and replacing Obamacare. This was part of his general theme of making g ...
How Modernizing The U.S. Army Can Make Nuclear War Less Likely (From Forbes)
President-elect Trump has frequently cited the need to modernize America's aging nuclear arsenal. He's right: the Obama Administration took too long to commence recapitalization of the main bulwark we have against nuclear Armageddon. However, the way ...
How the U.S. Army Could Become Lethal Again (Thanks to Donald Trump) (from The National Interest)
Modern presidents tend to be either defense hawks or budget hawks. Some start as one kind and morph into the other, usually in response to a domestic or international crisis. President-elect Trump may be that rare leader who will try to be both at the ...