Defense

The U.S. Has No Defense Against A Russian Nuclear Attack. Really. (From Forbes) If the Obama Administration gets its wish, the U.S. will spend about a billion dollars per week in fiscal 2016 defending countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq against various threats.  It will spend nothing on actively defending the American homeland ...
Netanyahu’s Victory Reaffirms Classic Formula: First Security, Then Peace And Prosperity To a large degree, the Israeli election was a referendum on the policies of the Obama Administration with respect, not just to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but to the overall security situation in the Middle East. Like the 2014 U.S. midterms, which ...
Missile Defense: Why America Has Almost No Protection From The Greatest Threat It Faces, And What To Do About It Click here to download the full study as PDF. Findings in Brief Nuclear war is the only foreseeable threat to America’s survival in this century, and Russia is the most plausible nation from which a large-scale nuclear attack might originate. Other cou ...
Chairman Rogers Gets It Right On Strategy To Replace Russian RD-180 Rocket Engines One of the biggest and most complex security challenges facing the Department of Defense today is providing assured access to space. The U.S. military and Intelligence Community (IC) are highly dependent on space-based systems for a host of vital missi ...
As Army Modernization Collapses, Suppliers Begin Slipping Away (From Forbes) Faced with a shrinking force structure, declining readiness and congressionally-mandated caps on spending, the U.S. Army has drastically curtailed spending on new technology.  Its modernization plan for the rest of the decade now consists mainly of upg ...
The Pentagon Must Recognize Defense Companies’ Hierarchy Of Needs Almost everyone who has ever taken a psychology class in college was introduced to Abraham Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of needs. In essence, the theory postulates that all human beings possess a series of five basic categories of needs running fro ...
Why Aerojet Will Win The Race To Replace Russian Rocket Engines (From Forbes) The Air Force needs a new rocket engine.  Congress has directed it to stop using Russian engines that power the first stage of its workhorse Atlas V launch vehicle by 2019, and at the moment the only viable alternative to Atlas for lifting the heaviest ...
If Deputy Secretary Work Wants More Innovation, He Should Study The Lessons Of The Rapid Equipping Force Over the past several years, the U.S. Army has gotten something of a bad rap for being unable to innovate and think creatively. In part, this was the result of some significant acquisition missteps. To those who equate innovation with technology, the A ...
Ex-Im Bank Battle Illustrates How GOP Could Lose The White House In 2016 The core principles of modern conservatism, contrary to what critics allege, are not grounded in religion or ideology.  They are grounded in simple common sense.  Budgets should be balanced.  High taxes distort behavior.  Welfare erodes the human spiri ...
Good Agreement, Bad One Or None At All, The Arms Race In The Arabian Gulf Will Intensify The debate in Washington regarding the pros and cons of the putative agreement between the P5 and Iran on limits to its nuclear programs is focused either on theological questions, such as is a bad agreement better than none at all, or technical detail ...
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