Defense
QDR Climax: Friendly Fire Hits Joint Strike Fighter
Next Monday, the senior management of the nation's military establishment will gather to decide what it has learned from the Quadrennial Defense Review. That congressionally-mandated assessment of . . .
Ten Ways Iraq Is Like Vietnam (And One Way It Isn’t)
Critics of the U.S. counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq complain that the military relies too much on metrics like enemy body counts to measure success. But national media maintain their own body count . . .
Finding The Enemy: The Pentagon’s Biggest Problem
Hurricane Katrina seems to have turned all the dire predictions of a fiscal "perfect storm" into literal truth. The added spending required for Gulf Coast cleanup has led some cynics to conclude that the . . .
Future Challenges Facing U.S. Air Power
My mission today is to describe the challenges facing American air power in the years ahead. I plan to do that by briefly assessing the major threats to global stability and then focusing on a range of . . .
Can the Space Sector Meet Military Goals for Space?
Military transformation as currently interpreted relies heavily on next-generation satellites to provide U.S. forces with advanced reconnaissance, communications, and navigation. However, the performance . . .
Reforming DHS’ Business Processes
The events of recent weeks demonstrate clearly that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs a new business model that will allow it to address better the complex demands of its mission. Many of the . . .
Spy Satellites: What’s Up with FIA?
Reporters chasing the story of how a program to build next-generation photo-reconnaissance satellites might be restructured encountered something unexpected last week -- a National Reconnaissance Office . . .
Pentagon Declares War — On The Defense Industry
Reporters chasing the story of how a program to build next-generation photo-reconnaissance satellites might be restructured encountered something unexpected last week -- a National Reconnaissance Office . . .
Speech to Fairfax County, Virginia Young Republicans
It's great to be here in Fairfax County, and I appreciate the invitation to speak to your organization. I thought I would take a quick look at the contemporary policy and political scene, and share some . . .
Technology Lessons from Katrina
Most of the lessons the nation's pundits seem to be taking away from Hurricane Katrina concern politics, which is what you'd expect from a collection of liberal-arts majors. But engineers looking for less . . .