Defense
Navy Buys In Bulk To Save Money, Build The Fleet There has been renewed attention of late in defense circles with the subject of Pentagon spending reforms. The combination of increasing threats and declining budgets has given a new impetus to the subject. There is a sense that this might be the momen ...
THAAD Missile Killer Could Boost Army Role In Pacific (From Forbes) The U.S. Army is having a tough time defining its role in the Pacific theater of operations -- designated in 2012 by the Obama Administration as the prime focus of America's global security posture. The vast distances and limited basing options in the ...
Marine Corps Should Consider Robotic Adjunct To The Amphibious Combat Vehicle Today the Marine Corps released the long-awaited RFP for its Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV). This is the service’s latest attempt to replace the aging Amphibious Assault Vehicle. The ACV is the centerpiece of the Corps’ amphibious operations strategy, ...
President Obama’s April Fool’s Day Agreement With Iran The negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran are beginning to resemble amateur night at a standup comedy club. The sets go on too long and the monologues aren’t funny. But these negotiations may have an April Fool’s Day kicker, the diplomatic version of ...
Smartphones Are The Newest Weapons In The War With Islamic Terrorism The civilized world’s fight against Islamic terrorism is being fought on many battlefields, some old and others quite new. The old ones are the ancient lands of Mesopotamia, the Levant and North Africa. On these traditional battlefields, many of the wa ...
U.S. Should Deploy THAAD Missile Defense To South Korea Aggressors always hope that the conventional wars they start will be swift and decisive. Consider Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia, Japan’s offensive against the United States and Great Britain, North Korea invading South Korea, the Arab states versus ...
Surrounded: Why Saudi Arabia’s Security Is At Risk (From Forbes) Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen this week highlights the fact that the kingdom is increasingly surrounded by sectarian turmoil -- turmoil that may spread to its domestic political scene. To the south, Somalia and now Yemen both look to be failed, ...
Running Out Of Money Really Can Produce Some New Thinking Who would have believed it? The pressures of declining defense budgets, reinforced by the looming threat of across-the-board cuts to defense programs as a consequence of sequestration, have generated a wave of thinking from both inside and outside the ...
Pricetag For Pentagon’s Trillion Dollar F-35 Fighter Drops $60 Billion In One Year (From Forbes) The cost of the Pentagon's biggest weapon program is decreasing. The joint program office for the tri-service F-35 fighter last week disclosed a stunning $58 billion reduction in the projected cost of operating and sustaining the plane over its 55-yea ...
All Quiet On The Western Front: Counter-terror At Home Seems To Be Working It is a dicey proposition to write a blog on how well counter-terror operations are going. Knock on wood, the moment you publish it something could go real wrong. But since September 11, 2001 we Americans have not suffered another major attack on our ...