Defense
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, ...
NATO’s Last Chance: Invest Its Scarce Resources Wisely or Accept Strategic Irrelevance
Click here to download the full report as PDF. For more than two decades, NATO spending on defense has declined to levels today that are perilously close to disarmament. Senior U.S. officials have repeatedly warned NATO that its failure to invest adeq ...
Ex-Im Bank: How A Small Agency Delivers Big Benefits For America’s Economy
Executive Summary Click here to download the full study as PDF. The Export-Import Bank is the official export credit agency of the U.S. government, established during the Great Depression to create jobs by facilitating the export of American-made goods ...
U.S. Air Dominance in a Fiscally Constrained Environment: Defining Paths to the Future
Dominant airpower is essential to virtually every operation the U.S. military conducts. It is an essential component of the U.S. military’s “DNA.” Budget cuts, shrinking force structure, poor investments in modernization, technological innovation and a growing anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) threat are combining to call into question the Department of Defense’s ability to maintain dominant air power in future conflicts.
The Right Way To Modernize: The Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance Low Planes
The U.S. Army maintains a small fleet of fixed-wing aircraft for providing timely reconnaissance to its commanders during combat operations. The most capable such planes are EO-5C Airborne Reconnaissance . . .