Defense
Contractors On The Battlefield Civilian contractors have a larger presence on today’s battlefields than ever before. Over a decade ago, as the U.S. military began downsizing, it began transferring many of its support functions to private . . .
Joint Common Missile: Why Argue With Success? Here's a fantasy. Imagine three military services agreed on the need for a versatile air-to-ground missile that could precisely destroy a wide range of elusive targets -- everything from camouflaged armored . . .
Tankers: How Northrop Can Win The Deal Of The Century Monday's announcement that Boeing will offer its 767 jetliner in the competition to build a next-generation aerial refueling tanker was no surprise. The 767 is similar in size to 500 Eisenhower-era . . .
The 2008 Budget: A Peak, or a New Pattern? On Monday, the Bush Administration released details of its proposed military budget for 2008. According to Steven Kosiak of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, it is the biggest . . .
Sea-based Missile Defense: The First Line of Defense for U.S. Homeland George S. Patton once averred that when Samson slew a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass the weapon was surely en vogue for centuries. The U.S. Navy’s Aegis Weapon System. . .
Hear No Evil: Closing the Gap in Language Resources On February 26, 1993, terrorists exploded a bomb under New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring a thousand. At the time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held tapes and . . .
The National Guard Needs More Stryker Brigades President Bush's decision to surge U.S. forces into Iraq will require the activation of additional National Guard brigades in order to preserve a rotation base. No longer is the Guard a strategic reserve, one . . .
The Slow Death of American Air Power As the author of the Air Force chapter in the book being released today, I set two tasks for myself... -- First, to describe the continuous erosion of U.S. air power that has unfolded since the fall of the Berlin Wall. -- Second, to explain the peculiar dynamics of Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, which not . . .
The Slow Death of American Air Power Now that America has an Islamo-centric security posture, any danger that doesn't fit within the counter-fundamentalist framework tends to be ignored. That's sort of ironic, since the biggest military threats to . . .
Naval Networking and E-2C The key to the operation of modern complex systems in the information age, whether in the military or the commercial sector, is networking. Networking allows individual elements of the system to share . . .