Defense
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 ...
Five Reasons Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization Is Important To National Security (From Forbes)
Unlike export-credit agencies in other countries, the U.S. Export-Import Bank does not finance overseas sales of military items. However, its loan and insurance programs nonetheless have important benefits for national security. First, they sustain d ...
Navy Getting Extra Acquisition Mileage By Exploiting Existing Platforms
At its Cold War peak, the U.S. Navy deployed just shy of 600 ships including four battleships, 14 aircraft carriers, more than 40 cruisers, nearly 60 destroyers, about 100 each of attack submarines and frigates and some 60 amphibious warfare ships. Wit ...
Apres Andy Marshall, ce qui va arriver?
After Andy Marshall, what will happen? Large bureaucracies, like great ocean liners or stubborn pachyderms, are difficult things to move. This is particularly true of the Department of Defense (DoD). Only a handful of individuals have had a lasting imp ...
Marine Corps Modernization Challenge: How To Get Ashore In The Future (From Forbes)
General Joseph F. Dunford, the newly-installed Commandant of the Marine Corps, has inherited a dilemma from his predecessor: How to prosecute successful amphibious operations against increasingly capable littoral adversaries with a shrinking budget. A ...
The National Guard Is Becoming More Important To The Army, Not Less
The way some soldiers in the Regular Army talk about the National Guard, you'd think we were living through the early post-Vietnam era rather than a time of multi-front wars in which the Guard has played a vital part. President Johnson opted to rely on ...
Even Before Sequestration Hits, Military Readiness Is Declining
While deployed U.S. military forces continue to perform superbly in ongoing combat operations against the Islamic State, training and assisting Afghan forces, providing humanitarian support in West Africa and conducting forward presence in Asia, Europe ...
The Army Had To Learn To Play Defense
Winning NFL teams excel at defense. Just look at leaders like Detroit, Denver, San Francisco, New England and San Diego. The best defenses don't just keep the opposing offense from scoring, they create opportunities to score by causing fumbles and inte ...
Lockheed Martin’s Fusion Breakthrough Is Just One Piece Of Its Fast-Growing Energy Portfolio (From Forbes)
Lockheed Martin made quite a splash this week when it disclosed work on a compact fusion reactor that could be ten times more efficient than existing fusion designs. The company says a 100 megawatt version of the reactor capable of providing electrici ...
Five Reasons America’s Army Won’t Be Ready For The Next War (From Forbes)
There's a saying that when war comes, the first casualty is truth. When peace comes, the first casualty usually is the U.S. Army. Whether it is fighting in Anbar Province or on Capitol Hill, somehow the Army always manages to take the most casualties ...