Defense
Navy Destroyer Plans Don’t Make Sense
If you think that having three surface warfare officers in a row at the helm of the U.S. Navy has created a bias in favor of surface combatants, then you must not be paying attention to news about naval . . .
Missile Defense: The Navy’s Role Is Growing
The post-Bush missile defense debate is already underway inside the Beltway and the Pentagon. One of the primary focuses is what role the U.S. Navy will play in the wake of their highly successful Aegis shots . . .
Tanker Controversy: Questions The Air Force Must Answer
It is now three months since the Air Force shocked the world by awarding the contract for its next-generation aerial-refueling tanker to Northrop Grumman and the European parent of Airbus. Throughout that time, service officials. . .
A History Lesson On Why The F-22 Fighter Is Essential
Imagine that in 1902, Secretary of War Elihu Root had told President Teddy Roosevelt the difficulty of suppressing the Philippine Insurrection proved future weapons would need to be useful in conducting . . .
Doctor Gates Hangs Out His Shingle
Many of you may remember the famous Peanuts cartoons in which Lucy would play the psychiatrist, offering to diagnose Charlie Brown’s problems for five cents a session. Well, a new therapist has hung out . . .
Obama and McCain Share Many Views on Defense
The conventional wisdom about American politics is that the nation has become deeply polarized since the Vietnam War, with voters increasingly crowding to opposite extremes of the political spectrum. For . . .
The Military Beyond Iraq
The next president will confront a series of national security challenges that are in many ways as daunting as those made by President’s Truman and Eisenhower at the start of the Cold War. Then the . . .
The Next Quadrennial Defense Review Needs To Be Delayed
It is now nearly 20 years since the Berlin Wall was breached, providing a powerful symbol of communism's impending collapse. That event also marked the end of an era in American defense . . .
Boeing And The Air Force At War: The Damage Spreads
If you want to understand how former allies end up going to war -- or former lovers end up getting divorced -- take a look at how Boeing and the Air Force are treating each other in their angry . . .
Economic Security: The Coming Era of Re-Regulation
Remember the Reagan Revolution? It's over. For 30 years, the political system has been dismantling the burden of taxes and regulations imposed on the economy by the New Deal. When Ronald Reagan won . . .