Defense
Clear and Present Danger
To The Editor:Jonathan Schell's essay concerning our ongoing nuclear crisis ["The Unfinished Twentieth Century," January] correctly notes that the Clinton Administration's plans to develop an anti-ballistic . . .
Submarines and Intelligence (3): Bock Buy Saves Money
The Lexington Institute has published several essays on the seldom-discussed subject of submarines and intelligence. The Navy's nuclear-powered attack subs have a rapidly growing role in the collection of both . . .
Submarines and Intelligence (2): Time to Rebuild
Over the past ten years, the strategic intelligence taskings for the Navy's nuclear-powered attack submarines have doubled. During the same period, the number of attack subs in the active fleet declined . . .
Defense Industry’s Real Problem: Capricious Pentagon
The Pentagon is sponsoring a study by the Defense Science Board (DSB) to figure out what has gone wrong with the defense industry. In the two years since senior policymakers blocked the merger of top. . .
Submarines and Intelligence: The Missing Link
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has completed a comprehensive study of attack-submarine requirements in the years 2015 and 2025. The study is a follow-up to the 1997 Quadrennial Defense . . .
The “Unplugged” Battlefield: Marine Corps Modernizes Its Tactical Communications
A running joke in the Marine Corps is that the two most common after-action comments following a field exercise are, "We learned a lot," and, "Comm [communications] was fouled up again." With luck, the latter statement . . .
Don’t Turn A Blind Eye To The Need For Subs
When Blind Man's Bluff, the story of the Navy's Cold War submarine fleet, was published in 1999, the Navy distanced itself from the book, citing security concerns and a policy to not discuss submarine . . .
Plan for Defense Spending
By Loren Thompson, Ph.D. David Ignatius really hit the nail on the head in his February 13 analysis of the defense industry's decline. The industry's problems can be succinctly summarized as depressed . . .
50 Subs Not Enough For Navy Security Mission
It has been argued that some of the major weapon systems developed during the Cold War have yet to demonstrate they remain relevant and are successfully adapting to the new threats to global security. To . . .
New Century, Old Question: Can Europe Keep Up?
In 1968, French journalist J.J. Servan-Schreiber published a hugely influential book called The American Challenge that argued Europe was falling behind. It wasn't the Soviet Union that worried him so much . . .