Defense

Heritage Foundation’s Index Of U.S. Military Power Will Help Change The Discussion Today, the Heritage Foundation rolls out its 2015 Index of U.S. Military Power. Modeled after that institution’s extremely useful and widely cited Index of Economic Freedom, this new document is likely to stand alongside the IISS’s annual Military Bala ...
Ex-Im Bank Death Would Devastate Thousands Of Small Businesses (From Forbes) If Congress does not vote to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank by June 30, America's sole export credit agency will cease operating -- at a time when other countries such as China and South Korea are stepping up their own assistance to exporters (Chin ...
British MoD Again Shows Our DoD How To Transform Defense Procurement In a period of declining defense budgets but growing threats to national security, the Department of Defense (DoD) is struggling to figure out how to do more with less. This is the central challenge facing the new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter. I ...
Pentagon Pricing Zealots Put The Screws To Pratt & Whitney (From Forbes) On February 17, Bloomberg News reported the Department of Defense Inspector General had subpoenaed pricing data from engine-maker Pratt & Whitney that the company had "repeatedly refused to turn over" to its Air Force customer.  Coming as it did on ...
Missile Defense: A Common Kill Vehicle Will Improve Performance And Save Money The Missile Defense Agency aims to develop a common kill vehicle (CKV) to address future ballistic threats in 2025 and beyond. A CKV will take many years to develop, but it will boost the capacity of missile defense systems to neutralize complex threat ...
Our Enemies Intend To Fight On The Ground And So Should We For years now, the dominant meme in discussion of the future of U.S. national security, generally, and military forces, in particular, has been the challenge posed by adversaries using so-called asymmetric strategies and tactics. At the lower end of th ...
F-35 Fighter: Five Reasons Why Slowing The Pentagon’s Biggest Weapon Program Would Backfire (From Forbes) The F-35 fighter program is unique in just about every respect, including the scale of resources required to bring it to fruition.  Unfortunately, that scale makes it an easy target for those who would like to turn it into a bill-payer for other priori ...
DoD’s Acquisition Reform Initiatives Are Looking In The Rearview Mirror Why is it so unbelievably difficult to reform the Department of Defense’s (DoD) acquisition system? There have been perhaps a dozen major Pentagon reform initiatives over the past several decades. Only a few have demonstrated any staying power much les ...
As FAA Relaxes Civilian Drone Rules, Military Drone Plans Falter (From Forbes) The FAA's decision to loosen rules governing the operation of commercial and recreational drones in civil airspace is good news for a wide array of users.  Political pressure helped to bring about the change.  Ironically, though, political constraints ...
Chuck Hagel, American Patriot Friday the 13th is, or was, Chuck Hagel's last day at the Pentagon.  The nation's 24th defense secretary is being replaced by a very different sort of person -- a renowned intellect and shaper of policy no doubt, but not a product of the American heart ...
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