Defense
What’s In It For America? How Trump Would Change Our Global Posture If He Wins The Presidency (From Forbes)
Contrary to what his critics claim, Donald Trump's views on how Washington should change its foreign policy are coherent and consistent. First, he thinks economic globalization has been bad for America, so he would rethink free trade and the notion of ...
British Defense Ministry Continues To Pioneer Transformation Of Military Logistics
The current budgetary environment requires that the Department of Defense (DoD) make the most efficient use of all its resources – money, personnel and time – reducing costs and improving outcomes wherever possible. According to the Under Secretary of ...
Attempts To Downplay Growing Russian Military Threat Won’t Wash
Thankfully, the Russian military is not ten feet tall. No one said it is. But that is the way some unnamed civilian Pentagon officials want to spin the legitimate concerns of senior military officers regarding the challenges posed by the improved capab ...
Five Reasons Defense Companies Need To Be Really Big To Survive (From Forbes)
Recent Pentagon complaints that the defense industry has become too concentrated are misguided. Bigness is a prerequisite for surviving in a business where the threats that drive demand are unpredictable and the monopsony customer can't be counted on ...
GM’s Technology Revolution: Why The Pentagon Should Put Its Next Innovation Center In Detroit (From Forbes)
The Pentagon is pressing hard to foster greater commercial-military collaboration in innovating, but it needs to look beyond the narrow confines of Silicon Valley and Boston. One place worth visiting is General Motors headquarters in Detroit, where Am ...
Putin Strategy Fails To Stop Deployment Of Missile Defenses In Europe
Today marks the first significant setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Europe. For more than two years, Russia has been on the march in Europe and elsewhere, undermining the political and economic systems of neighboring countries, ...
The U.S. Army Needs To Say “No Mas” To WAS
Wide Area Security (WAS), what used to be called stability operations, is supposed to be one of the U.S. Army’s core competencies. It involves much more than providing security for rear areas or occupying enemy territory during the course of hostilitie ...
America Needs A New Kill Vehicle To Defeat Incoming Nukes (From The National Interest)
The only deployed technology designed to protect the American homeland from long-range ballistic missiles today is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) that is carried on GMD interceptors and separates ...
McCain Panel Focus On Cost Of Secret B-21 Bomber Could Force Restructure (from Forbes)
The Senate Armed Services Committee is reviewing the Pentagon's fiscal 2017 budget request, and one area where committee chairman John McCain is sure to focus is the Air Force's B-21 bomber. The Air Force desperately needs a more survivable, maintaina ...
If Senate Votes To Ban Russian Rocket Engines, Military Access To Space Will Be At Risk
This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee will review the defense department's budget request for the fiscal year beginning October 1. One of the changes to the request committee chairman Senator John McCain is proposing is a ban on imports of th ...