Defense
Missile Defense: Time For A New Kill Vehicle
Missile defenses deter countries from launching missile attacks and seek to defeat those who do. But the only existing technology designed to protect the American homeland from incoming intermediate- and long-range ballistic missiles today is the Groun ...
Key Member Of Anti-ISIS Coalition Demands U.S. Use V-22 Tiltrotor For Rescues
The same day that the world had to confront a new level of barbarism from ISIS in its latest snuff video, it was also revealed that the coalition against this abomination which the Obama Administration had so painstakingly built had developed a gaping ...
Captain Carter Should Steer His Titanic Department Right At The Iceberg
One of the most interesting theories I have ever heard about the sinking of the Titanic is that the liner could have survived if, rather than trying to avoid the collision, Captain Edward John Smith, had steered directly for the iceberg. You might reme ...
The Burn Video: Why ISIS Did It (From Forbes)
News coverage of the ISIS video featuring immolation of a captured Jordanian pilot has been predictably emotional. If you haven’t seen the video, you can be excused for assuming that the jihadist group is run by sadistic lunatics. If you have seen it ...
U.S. Cannot Arm Ukraine And Also Buy Russian Rocket Motors
Are the West and Russia heading for a showdown over Ukraine? The preponderance of the evidence would strongly suggest that the answer to this question is yes. Moscow-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine are intensifying their offensive against the governme ...
Pentagon Budget Headed Below 3% Of GDP As Warfighting Edge Wanes (From Forbes)
At first blush, the Obama Administration’s 2016 budget request looks like good news for America’s military. The purchasing power of the Pentagon’s regular budget would rise 6% from this year’s level, and much of the increase would go to under-funded w ...
The Ghost Of The U.S. Military Future
How can we convince the Scrooges on Capitol Hill to end the madness that is sequestration, open their purses and provide some budget relief to the U.S. military? In testimony, op-eds, studies and articles in learned journals, everyone with an ounce of ...
What Downturn? Top Pentagon Contractors Turn In Strong Results Despite Soft Demand
With military spending having peaked in 2010 and current expenditures capped under the Budget Control Act, you’d think defense company earnings would be suffering by now. So far, though, the downturn seems to be taking a surprisingly small toll on pro ...
How Many Generals Does It Take To Indict The President’s Counterterrorism Strategy?
The answer is three when they happen to be among the best individuals ever to wear stars on their shoulders. In a trifecta of withering critiques, former Army Deputy Chief of Staff, General Jack Keane, former commander of U.S. Central Command, Marine C ...
The One Task Ashton Carter Can Accomplish As Secretary Of Defense
You have to admire the commitment to public service of individuals such as the incoming Secretary of Defense, Dr. Ashton Carter. To accept the task of managing the Department of Defense in the final two years of the Obama Administration is an example o ...