Defense
How President Trump Can Avert A Crisis In U.S. Space Policy (From Forbes) President-elect Trump may be facing a crisis in U.S. space policy during his tenure thanks to the cost-driven policies pursued by his predecessor. Because current space policy tends to favor a low price-tag over risk-reduction, the government has back ...
Will General Mattis Have a Back Seat on the Trump Train? The ambitious and unwieldy Trump policy agenda will likely generate severe budget and deficit tensions in his coalition sooner than expected. And there appears to be more momentum and agreement behind the president-elect's infrastructure, tax cut and ...
Five Questions The Reagan National Defense Forum Should Be Addressing (From The National Interest) This weekend the 2016 Reagan National Defense Forum (RNDF) will be held at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. The topics chosen for discussion this year were selected months ago. All of them address important subjects. But I have a feeling ...
Trump May Be About To Derail The Pentagon’s Nuclear Plans (From Forbes) During his campaign for the White House, president-elect Donald Trump repeatedly cited the need to modernize America's aging nuclear deterrent. However, because of the complexities surrounding a presidential transition, Trump's election may result in ...
Aircraft Carriers: The Unique Value of America’s Most Famous Combat System Aircraft carriers are the preeminent expression of U.S. military power. The United States is the only nation that operates a fleet of large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. With unlimited range and the capacity to destroy hundreds of surface ta ...
Donald Trump’s Best Military Weapon: A Bigger U.S. Army (From The National Interest) Today, the U.S. military is overextended, underfunded and in danger of being outmatched by rivals such as Russia and China. Unless the new President takes seriously his commitment to make the U.S. military so powerful nobody “will mess with us,” he may ...
Forget About Too Big To Fail, Our Military Has Become Too Small To Succeed (From The National Interest) After the 2008 financial crisis, the government decided that there are some banks that are too big to fail without risking the entire economy. The U.S. military is becoming too small to risk failure, except when confronting an existential threat. There ...
Boeing’s Big Push Into Services Will Bolster Revenues And Returns, Reduce Cyclicality (From Forbes) Boeing, America's biggest exporter, disclosed Monday that it will reorganize its business with the goal of tripling services revenues to $50 billion over the next ten years. It also revealed that the next head of its commercial-aircraft unit will come ...
5 Reasons Why Selling the Embraer A-29 Super Tucano Attack Aircraft to Nigeria is a Good Idea Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist terrorist organization and an ISIS affiliate, must be defeated. Since its founding in 2009, Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands, killed more than 20,000 and created nearly 3 million refugees. In 2015 it won the world’s ...
Five Ways President Trump Will Reduce the Danger To America Of War In Europe (from Forbes) Foreign policy elites on both sides of the Atlantic are aghast that president-elect Trump might change Washington's approach to European security. However, the changes he seems inclined to make could be good for America. First, he will seek common gr ...