Defense
How Submarine-Launched Systems Can Overwhelm Chinese Warships In The Taiwan Strait (From Forbes)
The danger of a Chinese amphibious assault on Taiwan is the central driver of U.S. defense strategy. China's military advantages in the region are growing, and it is not clear that most U.S. warfighting systems will be able to operate near Taiwan in th ...
Air Force’s Sentinel ICBM Program Is Struggling, Potentially Impacting Nuclear Deterrence (From Forbes)
Bloomberg News reports that the Air Force's effort to replace its aging ICBM force is facing substantial cost growth and multiyear delays. Called Sentinel, the program involves developing a new missile to replace Minuteman III and replacing a vast infr ...
Pentagon Makes It Official: U.S. Industrial Decline Is Undermining National Defense (From Forbes)
Earlier this month the Pentagon released its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy. Its tone is strikingly similar to industrial assessments conducted during the Trump administration. That is arguably a good thing, in the sense that it demons ...
Intelligence Community Search For A Large Language Model Poses Unique Challenges
(The following guest essay explains technical challenges associated with developing an AI Large Language Model suitable for use by the intelligence community. The authors are chief executive officer and chief data scientist of Kingfisher Systems.) In a ...
Why The U.S. Needs A Third Site For National Missile Defense (From Forbes)
The U.S. currently has two sites dedicated to defending the American homeland against ballistic missile attack. The major site is at Fort Greely in Alaska. A much smaller site is at Vandenberg AFB in California. The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency sa ...
Superhornets Strike Back. The World’s Just Watched A Turnaround In Tactics Worthy Of A Hollywood Thriller (From Fox News)
On Thursday night, over 100 weapons struck 60 targets in 16 Houthi rebel areas across Yemen. The scope of the strike on 16 different areas tells me that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has been watching the Houthis and developing targets for months. At ...
What Would The U.S. Defense Posture Look Like In A Second Trump Presidency? (From Forbes)
Former President Donald Trump has a decent shot at winning reelection in 2024. Contrary to popular perception, that would not portend an unpredictable presidency, at least when it comes to defense. Trump has bedrock convictions about war and peace that ...
America Will Have To Heavily Arm NATO’s Six Frontline States If Ukraine Falters—Especially Finland (From RealClearDefense)
Amid the chaos of last year’s House of Representatives Speaker fight, Congressional aid to Ukraine became a casualty. When Kevin McCarthy, a supporter of the Ukraine war effort, was ousted, that support was not shared by his successors and several of h ...
Military Threats Are Growing, But Military Spending May Not Follow Suit (From Forbes)
Military threats are growing steadily. The logical response would be to increase defense spending accordingly. However, four trends are converging to make that response less likely. First, the Pentagon has already received sizable after-inflation spend ...
Tanks Are Crucial To Ukraine’s Future Battlefield Success. The U.S. Needs To Provide Them. (From Forbes)
Ukraine's offensive failed because it could not overcome entrenched Russian defenders. In the absence of decisive air power--which neither side possesses--the only way to penetrate such defenses is with massed armor. Kyiv has a collection of disparate ...