Defense
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 ...
Why President Trump Needs A Five-Year Defense Plan On Day One (From Forbes)
President-elect Donald Trump's goals for revitalizing U.S. military capabilities are similar to those that president-elect Ronald Reagan espoused in 1981. One lesson to be learned from Reagan's success in rebuilding a hollow military is that it's impo ...
Trump Defense Priorities Right On The Money (from The National Interest)
A memo from acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Brian McKeon to his staff reporting on the interactions he had with the defense transition team was just made public. The memo explained that the goal of the Department of Defense (DoD) transitio ...
How Trump Can Fix The F-35 Fighter Program Without Hurting American Warfighters, Workers Or Allies (From Forbes)
The F-35 fighter program is a technological marvel, but as president-elect Trump has suggested, it doesn't need to cost as much as it does. Somewhere between 20-30% of program costs result from compliance with government regulations -- regulations tha ...
America’s Marines Need The Amphibious Combat Vehicle Program To Counter Russia And China (From The National Interest)
The U.S. military has a dilemma. Having forgone more than a generation of modernization and facing rising adversaries who are investing in modern military equipment, it has to make a choice: focus on near-term modernization, buy what is available in or ...
Trump Should Reject the Convention On Cluster Munitions
When it comes to trade agreements, the newly elected President Donald Trump has been explicit that such arrangements must benefit the U.S. and be based on the principle of maintaining a level playing field. The Obama Administration’s policy with respec ...
Boeing Defense Headquarters Moving To The Nation’s Capital (From Forbes)
The Boeing Company has decided to move the headquarters of its defense and space unit to the nation's capital from Saint Louis, joining a migration that in recent decades has seen most of the Pentagon's biggest suppliers relocate top brass to the D.C s ...
Five Reasons Trump’s Twitter Attack On The F-35 Fighter Is Dead Wrong — And Dangerous (From Forbes)
President-elect Donald Trump's latest attack on the aerospace industry targets the F-35 fighter. He says program costs are out of control. Not so: the most common version of F-35 will cost less than Trump's Boeing 757-200 when it was new, and nobody ...
How Trump Can Invest In Infrastructure And Make America’s Military Great Again
During his winning campaign and in the month since, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to make America great again by, in part, massive infrastructure spending and rebuilding the U.S. military. History provides a valuable lesson for the incomin ...