Defense
Why China’s Bid To Become A Superpower Is Doomed To Failure (From Forbes)
Beijing makes little secret of its desire to overtake and surpass America in the mastery of forces driving global influence. In other words, it aspires to be a superpower. However, that does not look likely. Its economy is slowing. Its population is ag ...
Finland Must Prepare To Defend NATO’s Longest Border With Russia (From RealClearDefense)
Finland’s entry into NATO significantly alters the security environment in Europe. Now that it and Sweden (provisionally) are members of the alliance, the Baltic Sea has been turned into a NATO lake. In addition, NATO proximity to Russia’s Kola Peninsu ...
Five Reasons Software Is Eclipsing Hardware In Pentagon Technology Plans (From Forbes)
The Defense Department's modernization plans are increasingly driven by software rather than the hardware that once defined military power. There are numerous reasons for this trend, the most obvious of which are that software enhances the performance ...
Lockheed Martin Reports ‘Rapid Progress’ On Crucial Next Generation Interceptor (From Forbes)
The current system for countering ballistic-missile attacks on the US homeland by rogue states may not be capable of coping with future developments in the North Korean nuclear arsenal. The problem is that long-range missiles equipped with multiple war ...
America Is Closing The Hypersonic Weapons Gap (From 1945)
The U.S. is in a race to develop and deploy hypersonic weapons. It is a race in which it seeks to catch up to its great power competitors, Russia and China. Hypersonic weapons are complex systems. Developing them requires not only expertise in a host o ...
Leidos-Microsoft Partnership Is Latest Sign AI Is Taking The Defense Industry By Storm (From Forbes)
Fortune 500 federal contractor Leidos disclosed on the last day of July that it was forming a strategic partnership with Microsoft to bring artificial-intelligence solutions to public-sector customers. Over the last several years, every major defense c ...
Five Ways The Ukraine War Could Become A Nuclear Conflict (From Forbes)
Despite frequently warnings from Russian officials that the Ukraine war could lead their country to use nuclear weapons, much of official Washington does not take the possibility seriously. That is a mistake. There are multiple ways in which war-relate ...
As Pentagon Works To Rebuild The US Industrial Base, FTC Targets America’s Most Innovative Companies (From Forbes)
The twin blows of a global pandemic and war in Ukraine have alerted US policymakers to extensive vulnerabilities in the U.S. industrial economy. Pentagon planners are worried about the economy's ability to sustain a war effort, and rightly so. Meanwhil ...
Congress Pushes For Much-Needed Reforms Of The Foreign Military Sales Process (From RealClearDefense)
The U.S. is still the arsenal of democracy, providing well over $150 billion in security cooperation assistance to some 58 countries in 2021. One of the main avenues for providing friends and allies with needed military capabilities is the Foreign Mili ...
The Air Force’s AWACS Radar Planes Are Relics. Congress Needs To Speed Production Of Their Replacement. (From Forbes)
The Air Force's fleet of E-3 AWACS radar planes is on its last legs. The most decrepit aircraft will start heading to the boneyard this year, and finding spare parts for the remaining planes is becoming difficult. After all, the Boeing 707 jetliner on ...