Defense
Democrats Warm To Defense Industry As Republicans Turn Away Two developments last week lend credence to the idea that the national political parties are trading places in their approach to the defense industry. On April 3, the Bush Administration's Navy Secretary . . .
Reconnaissance Assets Undercut By Pentagon Infighting The U.S. intelligence community faces daunting challenges. Threats have become more elusive. Collection priorities have shifted to languages and cultures that few Americans understand. Security restrictions . . .
Saving CSAR: Combat Search-and-Rescue At Risk In the years since 9-11, Air Force combat search-and-rescue helicopters have saved about 500 soldiers, sailors and airmen from dangerous situations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Having a dedicated fleet of . . .
Fate of Surface Navy Rides on Littoral Combat Ship When the cold war ended, the U.S. Navy faced a crisis of relevance. For the first time in living memory, no Red Navy or Imperial Fleet challenged America's control of the high seas. Having spent the entire . . .
Media Meltdown: Is The Notion of “News” Dying? Quick quiz: Which sector of the economy is facing such a bleak outlook that some analysts doubt it will ever recover? Housing? Autos? Wrong -- it's the news business! If you thought your favorite news outlet . . .
National Guard: Command, Control and Confusion? The geniuses who created the post-World War Two U.S. military command system knew that there were two essential truths about leading a large and complex military. The first was that there must be unity of . . .
Air Force: Great At Winning Wars, Not At Communicating There was a time when proponents of air power were too blunt for their own good. British Air Marshall Hugh Trenchard complained that Billy Mitchell tried "to convert his opponents by killing them." Gen. . . .
Vulnerabilities of Terror Groups A year ago, many around the world were watching the new film “Munich.” The drama begins with the sad story of the Olympic Games massacre by Palestinians, becoming all the more sad with the German . . .
The Logic of Maritime Domain Awareness The United States and it allies face a diverse array of security problems in the emerging global landscape, ranging from terrorism and insurgency to arms trafficking and illegal migration. Many of these problems . . .
It Can’t Happen Here Back in the 1960s, before Britney and Ludicris were even born, Frank Zappa was the most outrageous act in popular music. Zappa delighted in lampooning the complacency of middle-class America, most . . .