Defense
BAE Systems Is Building The Electronic Weapons That Will Win World War Three (from Forbes)
Future warfare with peer adversaries will be largely about exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum, and the Electronic Systems unit of BAE Systems is the dominant player in that mission area. Headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, Electronic Systems ...
Deterring To Defend: Delivering On NATO’s Promise
Russia’s invasion and illegal occupation of parts of Ukraine in March 2014 was a wake-up call for the international community. It also shattered the already fragile relations between Russia and the West. With these actions, Vladimir Putin’s Russia had ...
WTO Finds Airbus Destroyed U.S. Jobs, Stole Market Share Through Massive Pattern Of Illegality (From Forbes)
Ten years after the U.S. Trade Representative first filed a case with the World Trade Organization concerning European aircraft subsidies, Washington was definitively upheld by the global body. It found that four European governments had engaged in a ...
U.S. Security In A Proliferated World Will Require A New ICBM (from The National Interest)
It’s really quite simple: deterrence of an attack on the United States by a hostile nation rests, ultimately, on the nuclear triad -- intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and bombers. While each leg ...
Five Reasons The Navy’s Aircraft Carriers Are Becoming More Vital To U.S. Security (From Forbes)
One of the most persistent fashions in military circles is predicting the demise of the aircraft carrier. However, the demand signal from regional combatant commanders suggests carriers are becoming more important to national security, rather than gra ...
NATO’s Urgent Effort to Deter Russian Aggression
Russia’s hybrid warfare and anti-access, area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities have caused great concern among neighboring nations. Moscow’s aggressiveness is viewed as seeking to weaken the NATO alliance and European partnerships. As a result, many Europea ...
Five Reasons The U.S. Army Will Lose Its Next War In Europe — Maybe In 2017 (from Forbes)
U.S. Army planners believe they may face war with a near-peer adversary sometime in the next five years. That probably means fighting Russia in Europe, but it doesn’t mean the Army has a full five years to prepare. It may mean war breaks out next yea ...
Is the U.S. Navy Moving too Fast on its New Frigate? (from National Interest)
On top of all the changes that continue to ripple through the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program like the aftershocks that follow a major earthquake, OSD and the Navy have asked the two teams – one led by Lockheed Martin with Marinette Marine and the o ...
Boeing Unveils “Purpose-Built” Air Force Trainer In Must-Win T-X Competition (From National Interest)
On September 13, Boeing revealed the plane that it hopes will win the Air Force's T-X trainer competition. Four teams are vying for the right to deliver 350 trainers and associated ground equipment such as simulators. T-X will replace aging T-38 trai ...
5 Reasons Why the Current Strategy for Assured Access to Space Is Too Risky (from National Interest)
The United States Air Force is pursuing a high risk strategy to provide assured access to space. It is betting heavily on the ability of the two primary launch providers, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX, to develop new reliable launch vehic ...