Defense
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 . . .
Helicopter Flap: How About Some Common Sense?
This week the Air Force is issuing a revised solicitation for its future search-and-rescue helicopter that service leaders hope will put the embattled program back on track. The Air Force is the only service . . .
Military Priorities: The New Majority Speaks
If you thought the Democratic Party was still mired in the anti-war, anti-military funk that followed America's defeat in Vietnam, then you haven't been paying attention to this week's mark-up of the fiscal . . .
T-SAT: A True Revolution In Military Communications
Imagine how far the American Revolution would have gotten if the Declaration of Independence had been written in Latin. Many of the Founders would have understood it because they were schooled in the . . .
Littoral Combat Ship and the Birth of A New Navy
I'm real pleased to be here today, discussing the most innovative and exciting vessel in the Navy's entire shipbuilding program. The schedule for today's event describes me as the luncheon keynote speaker, which means I'm supposed . . .