Defense

Defense Logistics: Global Reach, Global Power (1) With an award expected this summer for U.S. Transportation Command's major new procurement, DTCI, it is a good time to look at the progress the American military has made outsourcing and . . .
Air Show Ennui: There’s More Going On In Space This is the week of the Paris Air Show, a glitzy excuse for aerospace executives and their government customers to network far from the prying eyes of politicians. Such contrived venues seldom produce any . . .
Netting the Navy: Key Initiatives This report is the second in a series of studies that several colleagues and I are sponsoring to explain the importance of naval networking to a national audience. In the years since the cold war ended, global . . .
PBL: A Success Story Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the purchase of support as an integrated, affordable, performance package designed to optimize system readiness and meet performance goals through long-term support . . .
Pentagon Purge: Lessons From The Succession You don't need to be a defense expert to see the biggest lesson of Friday's leadership purge at the Pentagon. When you're in the military, losing wars is a bad career move. That's what America is doing in . . .
Performance-Based Agreements: The Future of Defense Weapons Systems Support The United States military faces two related crises. First is the tightening of defense budgets, certainly as the U.S. presence in Iraq winds down, but increasingly likely regardless. Second are the growing costs of . . .
Future Navy: Open Architecture May Matter More Than Iraq The Iraq war so dominates the current defense debate that other military topics get short shrift from politicians and journalists. Their reasoning seems to be that until we figure out how to defeat a ragtag . . .
THAAD Brings New Capability To Ballistic Missile Defense The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program brings a unique contribution to the U.S.-led Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) because it is the first element developed explicitly to shoot down . . .
Global Warming: A Last Chance for the Skeptics Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham described journalism as the "first rough draft of history." Perhaps rough draft of hysteria would be a better phrase to use in describing some of the . . .
The Defense Industry in a Changing Media Landscape I've been looking forward to this meeting since Alexis Allen first invited me a month ago, because I used to teach media-military relations at Georgetown University and even published a book on the subject in . . .
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