Defense
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 ...
Why Killing Ex-Im Bank Would Be Bad For America
On March 24, Loren Thompson addressed a meeting of the Aerospace Industries Association Supplier Management Council in Washington, D.C. concerning the importance of reauthorizing the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Ex-Im Bank, as it is often called, is the o ...
Point Paper: Plans To Modernize Military Health Records Will Harm Warfighters Rather Than Help Them
The Department of Defense is planning to award a contract this year for replacement of its current healthcare records system with a "state-of-the-market" successor. At a projected acquisition cost of $11 billion, the Defense Healthcare Management Syst ...
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 ...