Defense

Six Principles for the National Guard’s Cybersecurity Role Protecting the Grid (from National Interest) With its recent but growing investments in cyber capabilities, the National Guard is well positioned to play a larger role in protecting critical infrastructure from cyber as well as physical attacks.  Some 13 states now have cyber units within their G ...
Revolutionary F-35 Fighter Reaches Its Most Important Milestone (From National Interest) Fifteen years after development began, the F-35 fighter is operational with the U.S. Air Force.  This is a crucial turning point for the tri-service program, because the Air Force will buy over 70% of the domestic production run, and its F-35A variant ...
Surprise Bid For Two New Planes Could Wreck Air Force Modernization Plan (From National Interest) Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James apparently was taken by surprise when subordinates unexpectedly surfaced a plan to buy two new types of attack aircraft last week.  Her initial public response -- "Where would we get the money?" -- goes to the hear ...
Drone Wars: Defeating the Unmanned Threat will Require A Firestorm Of Energy (from National Interest) The results of the next Offset Strategy are beginning to appear on the world’s battlefields. Unfortunately, it is not the U.S. military that is deploying these capabilities. Instead it is our competitors and adversaries that are exploiting the revoluti ...
Nuclear Force Modernization Costs Much Less Than You Think (From National Interest) Pentagon officials testified before Congress earlier this month that modernization of the nation's aging nuclear deterrent will cost $350-450 billion over the next 20 years.  Sounds like an astronomical amount, right?  Well, it turns out Americans will ...
Russia: The Hybrid State As Adversary (from The National Interest) Russia is the ultimate hybrid threat. Russia is unique insofar as it is controlled by a cabal that has many of the characteristics of the non-state groups that have acquired hybrid capabilities and developed strategies based on their use. Moreover, man ...
The U.S. Air Force’s Incoherent Plan To Replace The A-10 Warthog (from The National Interest) With the Air Force seemingly determined to change its plans for close air support every fiscal quarter, it was just a matter of time before it hit upon a really bad idea.  So here it is: the service wants to buy propeller-driven planes for supporting g ...
Why The Baltic States Are Where Nuclear War Is Most Likely To Begin (From National Interest) History may one day record that the greatest strategic blunder in history was the failure of U.S. leaders to take the possibility of nuclear war between America and Russia seriously once the Cold War ended.  A case in point is the security commitments ...
New Cruise Missile Crucial To Nuclear Deterrence (From Breaking Defense) Critics of US nuclear plans claim the Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) weapon — an aircraft-launched nuclear cruise missile — can be eliminated without harming America’s security interests. But the LRSO provides America with a unique capability to deter adv ...
Marine Corps Is Busy Inventing Its Own Third Offset Strategy The senior leadership of the Pentagon is scurrying hither and yon in pursuit of the new vaunted Third Offset Strategy. Their efforts include going to Silicon Valley, Austin and Boston in order to establish relationships with sources of innovation in th ...
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