Defense
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 ...
The Air Force’s B-3 Bomber Isn’t As Secret As It Seems (From Forbes)
The Air Force isn't saying much about its future Long-Range Strike Bomber, which will probably be designated B-3 after the development contract is awarded this Summer. All it has really disclosed is that it wants 80-100 planes at an average cost of $5 ...
The Russian Threat: Why Missile Defense Must Be A Priority
According to a new Gallup poll 18 percent of Americans view Russia as the top threat to the United States. This indicates that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressiveness in Ukraine has begun to scare the American public. While 18 percent may not ...
Vulnerability of U.S. Weapons Systems Could Portend a “Cyber Armageddon”
The biggest national security story of 2015 is not the possible return of sequestration, the likelihood of a nuclear arms deal with Iran or even Russian aggression against Ukraine. Rather, it is that the Department of Defense’s (DoD) arsenal of weapons ...
The Ten Year Rule And Nuclear Negotiations With Iran
In 1919, the British government ordered its military leaders to formulate their war plans “on the assumption that the British Empire would not be engaged in any great war during the next ten years.” This ten year rule remained in force until March, 193 ...
Pentagon’s $11 Billion Healthcare Record System Will Be Obsolete Before It’s Even Built (From Forbes)
The Department of Defense has embarked on an $11 billion project to modernize its much-criticized healthcare record system. The existing system supports medical and dental services for 9.6 million active-duty military personnel and their dependents, b ...
U.S. Shouldn’t Stop Investing In Counter IED Technologies
If you watched American Sniper you might have noticed the differences in the equipment U.S. forces employed between Chris Kyle’s first and fourth deployments to the war zone. In his early tours Kyle and U.S. forces moved around in unarmored Humvees, ma ...
The Risk Of Not Moving Quickly To Develop A New U.S. Rocket Motor
Last year, as Moscow began its campaign to conquer the Ukraine and relations between the West and Russia deteriorated, the U.S. Senate passed a law forbidding the U.S. military from buying additional launch services from any company using Russian-desig ...
Scout SV Recon Variant Completes Design Review, Setting A New Standard For Tracked Armor
Here's a quick quiz to determine how much you know about technology trends in armored fighting vehicles. Which U.S. military service is developing a new tracked fighting vehicle that will set the global standard for mobility, survivability and situati ...
Five Reasons The ISIS Fight Isn’t About Islam (From Forbes)
There's a debate going on in Washington about how to characterize the ISIS terrorist group. President Obama wants to downplay the Islamic character of the organization, arguing as many mainline Muslim groups do that it is "un-Islamic." Others say tha ...