Defense
The U.S. Army Faces Defeat In Europe. One Day Of Federal Spending Per Year Can Save It. (From Forbes)
The Romans had a saying that if you want peace, prepare for war. The U.S. Army is having trouble following that dictum because its budget for buying new weapons has been slashed by three-quarters during the Obama years. As a result, Russian forces in ...
Slow Pace Of New Air Force Radar Plane Could Prove Fatal To U.S. Soldiers (From Forbes)
The Air Force's fleet of 16 Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) planes is on its last legs. At any given time, half of the fleet is unavailable due to maintenance needs. It won't be long before all the planes must retire. But ...
The Adaptive Engine Transition Program Will Revolutionize Combat Aircraft Performance (from The National Interest)
American air power is critical to mission success – it provides precision strike, rapid logistics, detailed reconnaissance and air dominance while denying those advantages to adversaries. It is essential that the U.S. continue to advance its air power ...
White House Approves Boeing, Lockheed Fighter Sales To Gulf States (from Forbes)
The White House has approved sales of U.S. fighter jets to three Persian Gulf states, and begun the process of notifying Congress. Congress can block the sales, but probably will not given the impact on U.S. jobs and the need to counter inroads by Ira ...
BAE Systems Is Building The Electronic Weapons That Will Win World War Three (from Forbes)
Future warfare with peer adversaries will be largely about exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum, and the Electronic Systems unit of BAE Systems is the dominant player in that mission area. Headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, Electronic Systems ...
Deterring To Defend: Delivering On NATO’s Promise
Russia’s invasion and illegal occupation of parts of Ukraine in March 2014 was a wake-up call for the international community. It also shattered the already fragile relations between Russia and the West. With these actions, Vladimir Putin’s Russia had ...
WTO Finds Airbus Destroyed U.S. Jobs, Stole Market Share Through Massive Pattern Of Illegality (From Forbes)
Ten years after the U.S. Trade Representative first filed a case with the World Trade Organization concerning European aircraft subsidies, Washington was definitively upheld by the global body. It found that four European governments had engaged in a ...
U.S. Security In A Proliferated World Will Require A New ICBM (from The National Interest)
It’s really quite simple: deterrence of an attack on the United States by a hostile nation rests, ultimately, on the nuclear triad -- intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and bombers. While each leg ...
Five Reasons The Navy’s Aircraft Carriers Are Becoming More Vital To U.S. Security (From Forbes)
One of the most persistent fashions in military circles is predicting the demise of the aircraft carrier. However, the demand signal from regional combatant commanders suggests carriers are becoming more important to national security, rather than gra ...
NATO’s Urgent Effort to Deter Russian Aggression
Russia’s hybrid warfare and anti-access, area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities have caused great concern among neighboring nations. Moscow’s aggressiveness is viewed as seeking to weaken the NATO alliance and European partnerships. As a result, many Europea ...