Defense

When Does Buying Russian Rocket Engines Become Trading With The Enemy? “An iron curtain has descended across Europe.” With these memorable words Winston Churchill announced the onset of the Cold War. Within a couple of years massed armies were arrayed along the line borders that divided the North Atlantic Treaty Organizat ...
Senator John Cornyn’s Speech On Defense Acquisition Reform This speech was given by Senator John Cornyn at the Lexington Institute’s Capitol Hill Defense Acquisition Reform event on June 24, 2015. It’s a real pleasure to be able to speak with you this afternoon about something as critical to our nation as defe ...
Top Job For Boeing’s Hyper-Competitive New CEO: Shoring Up Defense Business (From Forbes) Tuesday's announcement that Dennis A. Muilenburg will become the 10th CEO in Boeing's 99-year history did not come as a big surprise to insiders, but it still will set a different tone for the world's biggest aerospace company.  For starters, Muilenbur ...
EVENT: Defense Acquisition Reform – Wednesday, June 24, 2015 The Lexington Institute is organizing a Capitol Hill forum on Wednesday, June 24th to discuss ways of streamlining management and procurement at the defense department. The forum will be a series of back-to-back presentations by subject matter experts. ...
Watchdog Agency Warns Of “Weaknesses” In Nuclear War Command Links (From Forbes) U.S. nuclear strategy depends on the threat of retaliation to deter aggression.  However, effective deterrence requires more than having an arsenal of bombers and missiles that can target potential attackers.  It also requires being able to detect an a ...
The Marines Desperately Need A New Ship-To-Shore Fighting Vehicle (From Forbes) The U.S. Marine Corps is the world's premier naval expeditionary force.  But getting from ship to shore is a tricky task even when enemies aren't shooting at you, and the Marines have to assume that in future wars they will be.  So it has to be a matte ...
What Do We Do The Day After ISIS Is Defeated? Slowly, like a leaky faucet, U.S. and coalition forces are returning to Iraq. There is no reason to believe that the Obama Administration’s decision to deploy another 450 soldiers will be the end. Nor is there any reason to believe that the U.S. will b ...
ISIS, Ramadi and the Evolving IED Threat It is time to stop referring to ISIS as Islamic extremists, terrorists or certainly the JV team. We can no longer afford to underestimate this adversary. This was the mistake the Byzantine and the Persian Sassanid Empires initially made when confronted ...
Crazy Crusade To Kill Ex-Im Bank Hurts America, Helps China (From Forbes) If you want to understand why the economic recovery has been so anemic, look at America's trade deficit.  It's so huge it shaved a full percentage point off economic growth last year, and the impact was even greater during the first quarter of this yea ...
A Big Week for Missile Defense In case you haven’t noticed, missile defense has become mainstream. Israel has deployed the Iron Dome, a nationwide defense against short-range rockets and ballistic missiles. The Iron Dome system proved remarkably effective in last year’s conflict wit ...
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