Defense
Proliferation Of Surface-To-Air Missile Threat Will Require Investment In Airborne Countermeasures
Commercial and even military aircraft can no longer count on being able to fly the friendly skies. This is the lesson brought home by the downing of MH17 over Ukraine. These same air defenses have also brought down Ukrainian military jets including bot ...
Behind Air Strikes On ISIS A Big Air Operation Is Underway
To date, there have been approximately 240 coalition air strikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since air operations began nearly a month ago. On the first night of operations against ISIS in Syria, the U.S. put most of its best assets into the ...
Air Force Can’t Let Budget Woes Abort Search For A Reliable Successor To Russian Rocket Engines
In the years since the Cold War ended, the federal government has repeatedly put America's leadership in space at risk by embracing bad ideas. These ideas typically promise to deliver faster, cheaper, more flexible solutions to what historically have b ...
Another View: Who Has The Will To Win Wars, And Why?
The following commentary was sent to us in response to a blog I posted on September 26 concerning U.S. Army inquiries into the human element of war. The writer focuses on the importance of belief and values in sustaining the will to win wars -- with sp ...
Why Defense Has A Secure Future In Boeing’s Business Mix (From Forbes)
Boeing's commercial jetliner business is going gangbusters. Its defense business isn't. Whenever the fortunes of major business lines within a publicly traded company diverge like that, some bright investment analyst poses the question of why the str ...
U.S. Military Needs Greater Investment In Targeting Capabilities
During the 1991 Gulf War, much of the media attention was garnered by the then rather nascent U.S. capability to deliver precision-guided munitions. Only about 7.5 percent of all the ordnance used by the Coalition during that conflict could be classifi ...
The Army’s One Liner Should Be “To Have And To Hold Land”
Each of the Armed Services needs to be able to articulate its basic purpose in a single sentence. The Marine Corps has rightly defined itself as “the Nation’s 911 force.” Don’t ask the Corps to win the big fight or do community policing; they are in an ...
The Key To Any A2/AD Offset Strategy Is Defeating Incoming Missiles
U.S. defense officials have become almost frantic about what they see as the need to find a way of offsetting the perceived loss of American military-technological preeminence over prospective adversaries. Our adversaries have gone to school on our app ...
Bright Idea: Navy Turns To Ohio-Based Energy Focus Inc. For An Illuminating Breakthrough (From Forbes)
Every once in a while I come across a new technology application in the defense arena that is so elegant I wonder why somebody didn't think of it sooner. The latest breakthrough is replacement of thousands of fluorescent lights on Navy warships with L ...
The Next U.S. Asymmetric Advantage: Maritime Lasers to Counter the A2/AD Challenge
Executive Summary Click here to download the full study as PDF. The United States Navy is confronted by an expanding array of both qualitative and quantitative threats to its ability to conduct its fundamental missions of forward presence, sea control, ...