Defense
President Obama’s First National Security Test
Vice President-elect Joe Biden was wrong when he said, “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.” Well, it was more like six hours. Yesterday, as other...
Chemical & Biological Threats: Surveillance as the First Line of Defense
Chemical and biological agents, whether in the form of weapons employed by terrorists or rogue states, toxic spills or naturally occurring pandemics, pose a significant risk to the ...
Memo to Demo’s: Missile Defense Is Our Top Military Need
With America's economy facing the worst outlook in three generations, it isn't hard to figure out where the next administration -- the Obama Administration -- will focus most . . .
Satellite Cancellation Raises Questions About Army Plans
Pentagon policymakers tentatively decided this weekend to terminate a competition for the military's next generation of communications satellites. The program was supposed to give each. . .
Five Reasons Weapons Spending Won’t Fall
The Reagan Revolution has collapsed. Over the next eight years a resurgent Democratic Party will raise taxes, re-regulate the economy and rethink free trade. Judging from the size of the. . .
The U.S. Navy’s Most Successful Shipbuilding Program
To a casual observer, the drumbeat of negative news about naval shipbuilding must make it sound as though the entire fleet modernization program is in disarray. The Navy Secretary canceled. . .
Future Security: Keeping TSAT On Track Is Essential
Over the last eight years, America's military has been transformed. Unfortunately, it has been transformed as much by the actions of our adversaries as by the vision of change that. . .
Missile Defense: The World Has Changed
Today marks the beginning of a new federal fiscal year, and it doesn't take great insight to grasp that this year's budget deliberations are likely to be a bit different from those of. . .
Why The Navy Wants To Rethink Its Next Destroyer
In mid-summer the Navy outraged some of its strongest supporters on Capitol Hill by proposing to end a next-generation destroyer program after building only two vessels, potentially squandering. . .
United Nations Has A Better Solution For Cluster Bombs
The global community is gradually moving to ban conventional weapons that are deemed too indiscriminate in their effects to comply with prevailing standards of behavior in . . .