Defense
U.S. Military Driving Towards Effective Ballistic And Cruise Missile Defenses Of late, virtually all the media’s and public’s attention on matters military has been focused on events in western Iraq and eastern Syria. The fight against the Islamic State is important, but it is by no means the only theater of conflict for the U.S ...
The RD-180 Replacement and the Future of the U.S. Rocket Motor Industrial Base Click here to download the full study as PDF. Introduction 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 hav ...
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 ...