Author Archives: Merrick "Mac" Carey
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How Trump Saved The Abrams Tank (From RealClearDefense)
January 21, 2025- Merrick "Mac" Carey The full text of this article is available below and on the RealClearDefense website here. Soon after his first inauguration in January 2017, President Trump saved the Abrams tank. What started as a Fox News interview on lowering the [Read More...] -
“Woke” Generals, The European Technology Wasteland, And Iran A Paper Tiger: Podcast With Mac Carey
December 9, 2024- Merrick "Mac" Carey Lexington CEO Mac Carey appeared on the “Situation Room” podcast on Patriot TV on December 7, 2024. You can watch it here. Trump transition and the potential “woke” controversies at the Pentagon: President-elect Donald J. Trump personally appointed General [Read More...] -
President Trump Should Give Poland ITAR Relief (From RealClearDefense)
November 26, 2024- Merrick "Mac" Carey The full text is available below and on the RealClearDefense website here. President-elect Donald J. Trump likes Poland, and he and President Andrzej Duda are friends. But like many other American friends, Poland is caught in the long waiting [Read More...] -
Poland Will Be The New NATO Abrams Tank Center For Sustainment And Co-Production
October 21, 2024- Merrick "Mac" Carey This article is also available in Polish here. The first of the Polish Army’s 250 new M-1 Abrams V3 tanks, the most modern version, will soon be delivered to that stalwart East European ally. Those combat vehicles will focus [Read More...] -
NATO’s Eastern Priority Tilt, And Task (From RealClearDefense)
July 9, 2024- Merrick "Mac" Carey At the NATO summit in Washington this week, rather than just a birthday celebration, the alliance should commit to strengthening its front-line conventional deterrence credibility. The record number of NATO allies meeting the 2% defense spending target is a [Read More...] -
Against All Odds, Army Making Solid Progress On Modernization (From RealClearDefense)
April 1, 2024- Merrick "Mac" Carey Today the United States and the U.S. Army are once again positioning for a two-front war, as we did in the Spanish American war, World War Two, and during the Cold War. The U.S. is the chief outside architect of [Read More...] -
The Microsoft Russian Hack Raises Major Questions For Policymakers
January 24, 2024- Merrick "Mac" Carey In a legally required filing, Microsoft on January 19 disclosed that senior executives’ e-mail accounts had been hacked by “a nation-state associated threat actor” widely believed to be Nobelium, a cybercriminal group affiliated with Russia’s government. This is the [Read More...] -
Lexington Institute: Statement on Hamas Attacks on Israel
October 11, 2023- Merrick "Mac" Carey Sometimes events take place that are so heinous, so out of the realm of acceptable behavior that it is incumbent on all honorable individuals and organizations to speak out. Such an event occurred this weekend in Israel. The Lexington Institute [Read More...] -
The Commerce Department Clips Russian And Chinese Wings (From 1945)
June 27, 2023- Merrick "Mac" Carey Long considered a Beltway backwater, the Commerce Department has become one of the central stages of national security policymaking. With the announcement that it would begin accepting applications for $52 billion in semiconductor subsidies that Congress approved last year as [Read More...] -
Jefferson’s Political Revolution
July 1, 2022- Merrick "Mac" Carey Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, so it is probably too late for you and me to achieve such a notable level of fame. He also attempted, in his draft, to blast the [Read More...]