Defense

Coast Guard Counter-Terror Plan Undercut By Aging Fleet After 9-11, America rediscovered its Coast Guard. The nation's smallest military service was buried in the byzantine Department of Transportation during the 1960s, and has been forced to operate on a . . .
Iraq — The Consequences Of Not Acting Now U.S. efforts to remove Saddam Hussein are now thoroughly entangled in the United Nations process. Although Colin Powell's campaign to dissuade the President from unilateral action was defensible on . . .
Renaming The Stryker Remember the legend of the Phoenix, the mythical creature that is consumed on its own funeral pyre only to be born anew and rise again from the ashes? A new Phoenix has arisen in the Bush . . .
Defeating Iraq With Photons Every military correspondent in America seems to be writing a story about how air warfare has changed since Operation Desert Storm in 1991. It's a pretty compelling story. Thanks to weapons like the stealthy . . .
UAVs: How Revolutionary? Last month's use of a Predator drone equipped with Hellfire missiles to kill Al Qaeda operative Abu Ali is being hailed by transformation proponents as further proof that future warfare will favor unmanned . . .
Delay In New Spy Satellites Could Endanger Warfighters This week Pentagon policymakers will begin revealing the investment choices they have made in putting together the fiscal 2004 defense budget. Most of the choices are smart. The Air Force's F/A-22 multirole . . .
Revolution Gone Awry This evening I want to express some doubts about military transformation. Since transformation has acquired an aura of unassailable virtue, I suppose I should begin by saying that I am not a Luddite. . .
Air Power: The Arithmetic of Victory (and Defeat) Next year will mark two important milestones in the history of American aviation. It will be the 100th year since the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, and the 50th year since an American soldier was . . .
Stryker Drives to the Future: Opponents Fail to Grasp New Strategic Challenges A new century requires a new military. This is what the transformation of the U.S. Army is about. Within a few decades, the U.S. Army will be almost unrecognizable. The key first step in this transformation is a . . .
Carrier Adrift: Delaying CVNX Has Big Consequences The Pentagon's latest Defense Planning Guidance identifies four weapons programs as candidates for cutbacks in the 2004-2009 spending plan. The Navy's candidate is its next-generation aircraft carrier. . .
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