Defense
Churchill Ascends To Prime Minister: 75th Anniversary Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of Winston Churchill taking power as Prime Minister of Britain (May 10, 1940) and, perhaps, saving Western Civilization from sliding into darkness. 20-20 hindsight is often the norm when we read history, and it is onl ...
Five Signs Afghanistan Is Becoming An American Success Story (From Forbes) Fourteen years into a frustrating counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan, the U.S. and its 40-odd coalition partners seem to have made major progress in stabilizing the war-torn country. Afghan security forces, who now have the lead in protecting t ...
Nuclear Weapons Enable Peace When President Barack Obama urged all countries to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their security strategies, no foreign leaders followed. In fact, several countries continue to modernize their nuclear delivery systems: Russia, China, India, Paki ...
Army Needs Better Guns On Its Stryker Fighting Vehicles In Europe Fast (From Forbes) In 2013 the U.S. Army brought home the last of its Abrams and Bradley tracked armored vehicles from Europe. It probably wasn't a total coincidence that less than a year later, Russia began its campaign to dismember Ukraine. So now the Army finds its ...
The Boeing-Lockheed Martin Bomber Team is the Most Qualified (From Aviation Week & Space Technology) The Air Force's future bomber program is so secret that it's impossible for outsiders to judge the merits of proposals submitted by the two industry teams. However, it is relatively easy to judge which team is more qualified to successfully execute th ...
Naked To Nuclear Attack: Democrats Hand The GOP A Winning Defense Issue For 2016 (From Forbes) The GOP is struggling to regain the reputation it once enjoyed as the party that understands how to defend America. One relevant issue that Democrats have handed Republicans on a silver platter is national missile defense, the ability to intercept bal ...
F-35 Program Continues To Make Progress Despite Negative GAO And IG Reports Somewhere along the way, government auditors and the Washington press corps got the mistaken idea that the program to design and develop the most complex fighter aircraft in history must go off without a hitch. Somehow many observers, including some wi ...
The Minuteman III ICBM’s Future LGM-30 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) form the land component of the nuclear triad that provides deterrence along with air and sea legs. The purpose of strategic deterrence is to prevent nuclear war by ensuring that costs and ...
Five Reasons Why Silicon Valley Won’t Partner With The Pentagon (From Forbes) Last week, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter visited Silicon Valley in pursuit of a partnership between the Pentagon and America's premier innovation hub to leverage emerging technologies. Once tech executives see what it means to work with today's P ...
Top Pentagon Contractor BAE Systems Inc. Will Sell Most Service Lines, Focus On Tech (From Forbes) BAE Systems Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the world's third-biggest military contractor, will sell services businesses generating $1.5 billion in sales annually so that it can focus almost exclusively on technology. In an understated announcement from ...