Defense
Now Only NATO Unites Europe The European Union (EU) was never truly about economics. It was always a political organization. Actually, its primary purpose was to ensure peace and security for the continent. This was a major reason why the EU was generally tolerant of failures by ...
Lieutenant General Donald J. Wetekam’s Speech: Defense Acquisition Lieutenant General Donald J. Wetekam (Ret), Senior Vice President, AAR Corporation gave a speech at Lexington’s Defense Acquisition Forum on June 3, 2016. Acquisition reform is crucial to sustaining the technological edge of America’s military. With de ...
Louis Kratz’s Speech: Defense Acquisition Mr. Louis Kratz, Vice President, Lockheed Martin Corporation, gave a speech at Lexington’s Defense Acquisition Forum on June 3, 2016. Acquisition reform is crucial to sustaining the technological edge of America’s military. With defense budgets capped ...
Maybe Today’s International Security Environment Is More Like 1618 Than 1938 Devotees of the Guardians of the Galaxy series of books might remember the line “History doesn’t repeat itself but sometimes it rhymes.” A popular meme in the works of defense and foreign policy experts for the past several years is the degree to whic ...
Lexington Summer Intern: Danny Lessig My name is Danny Lessig and I am from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Currently, I am a rising senior at Davidson College majoring in political science and French and participate in Davidson’s choir and the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity during my free time. Th ...
Brigadier General John Tuohy’s Speech: National Guard’s Role in Cybersecurity for the U.S. Power Grid This speech was given by Brigadier General John Tuohy at the Lexington Institute’s Capitol Hill event on the National Guard’s Role in Cybersecurity for the U.S. Power Grid on June 21, 2016. BG Tuohy is the Assistant Adjutant General of the Washington A ...
The Navy Is Smart To Consider Private Sector Solution For Helicopter Pilot Training The Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA and pronounced as if it were Ol’ Blue Eyes) has two problems, both common to many parts of the U.S. military. First, he has to conduct training for helicopter pilots using a fleet of old, obsolescent and expensi ...
The Jones Act And Homeland Security In The 21st Century For nearly a century, the Jones Act has protected the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base and ensured the continuation of an American merchant marine. Since September 11, it has also become an important instrument for the protection of the U.S. homeland ...
As Foreign Arms Sales Surge, Washington Struggles To Speed Approvals (From Forbes) U.S. foreign military sales have increased from $28 billion in 2013 to $34 billion in 2014 to $47 billion last year as the Obama Administration seeks to shift some of the burden of regional security to overseas partners. The government currently recei ...
GCC Ballistic Missile Defense Is Also A Priority For The United States Missile defense cooperation remains one of, if not the most, important aspects of the multilateral relationship between the United States and its allies in the Arabian Gulf. The U.S. defense industry has greatly benefitted from this multilateral relati ...