Defense

F-35 Critics Disappointed Again: Navy Variant Makes Successful Carrier Landing Just a couple of years ago, critics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program were pointing to a problem with the tail hook on the carrier version or C-variant as another sign that the program was doomed to failure. Land testing had shown that the ...
Election Outcome Is Good News For Defense Industry (From Forbes) Although the defense industry tries to avoid taking sides in political races, there isn't much doubt that this week's Republican electoral surge is good news for the sector.  First, the GOP has a long history stretching back to the Vietnam War of suppo ...
What Republicans Think About Defense Now Matters When a party is in the minority on Capitol Hill what it thinks about national security can make for interesting, even amusing, fodder for news stories but doesn't matter much. This is particularly the case on matters of national security where the Cons ...
Navy-Marine Corps Team Closes Ranks Behind Future Amphibious Warship (From Forbes) The U.S. Marine Corps is the world's premier practitioner of amphibious warfare.  But being able to use the sea as a maneuver space and basing domain requires specialized equipment, including a dedicated fleet of amphibious assault and docking ships.  ...
Atlas Launches, Antares Explodes: Some Lessons For Washington (From Forbes) This has been a week of ups and downs for America's space community -- literally.  On October 28, an Antares launch vehicle being used by Orbital Sciences Corporation to ferry cargo to the International Space Station exploded shortly after liftoff.  Th ...
From The End Of Wars To Endless Wars When President Obama began his second term he took what was then viewed as a justifiable victory lap for having ended the U.S. military involvement in Iraq. In addition, he sought to articulate a new national security strategy, one distinct from those ...
The U.S. Military’s Most Enduring (Perhaps Only) Strategic Advantage: Amphibious Warfare When the Cold War ended, the U.S. military was the biggest, baddest and most sophisticated in the world. It had the world’s only deployed stealth fighters and bombers, the sole blue water Navy with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, missile firing crui ...
West Should Help Liberate Eastern Europe From Miasma Of Russian Gas Russia’s political bag of tricks has four tools in it that the Kremlin is employing very successfully in its attempts to destabilize former Soviet Republics, defy NATO and the European Union and otherwise act like a great power. These are: 1) the Russi ...
After Decades Of Lagging Modernization, The Air Force Is Losing Its Edge (From Forbes) When the Air Force became independent from the Army in 1947, it could rightly claim to be the force of the future.  The advent of long-range bombers, atomic bombs, and intercontinental ballistic missiles made America's youngest military service not jus ...
U.S. Needs A Rocket Engine Competition (From Aviation Week) The United States was one of the two initial space-faring countries. Without assured access to space, the United States will cease to be a Great Power. It is almost impossible for those who have grown up in the era of Apollo, Moon landings, the Shuttle ...
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