Author Archives: Merrick "Mac" Carey
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Public-Private Partnerships
September 14, 2007- Merrick "Mac" Carey Presentation to The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University It has been six years and three days since the Al Qaeda attack on the American homeland. I doubt anyone in this room woke up on September 12th, assuming [Read More...] -
Defense Logistics: Global Reach, Global Power (1)
July 13, 2007- Merrick "Mac" Carey Issue Brief With an award expected this summer for U.S. Transportation Command’s major new procurement, DTCI, it is a good time to look at the progress the American military has made outsourcing and privatizing key functions of government. From Iraq [Read More...] -
Naval Networking and E-2C
January 11, 2007- Merrick "Mac" Carey Issue Brief The key to the operation of modern complex systems in the information age, whether in the military or the commercial sector, is networking. Networking allows individual elements of the system to share information and coordinate their activities thereby [Read More...] -
Naval Forces Provide Leverage With Iran
September 28, 2006- Merrick "Mac" Carey Issue Brief As Iran’s jihadist government presses its pursuit of nuclear technology, the U.S. defense establishment is developing plans for conflict with that Alaska-sized country. The Army, Marine Corps and allied land forces are currently stretched thin with difficult missions [Read More...] -
Mid-Term Election Prospects
September 19, 2006- Merrick "Mac" Carey Issue Brief George W. Bush is the first president since FDR to pick up Congressional seats for his party in his first two mid-term elections. The last president to pick up seats in all three mid-terms was James Madison, and [Read More...] -
Four Camps in the Terror War
August 21, 2006- Merrick "Mac" Carey Issue Brief The two American political parties are splitting into four camps on how to handle the Terror War. With the defeat of Senator Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary, and the possible takeover of both Houses of Congress this [Read More...] -
Multi-tasking Subs
March 1, 2006- Merrick "Mac" Carey Article Published in Proceedings magazine The nation’s submarine force is at flank speed ahead on multiple fronts. Submarines are making critical contributions to the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The community is looking toward increasing the submarine construction rate in [Read More...] -
Speech to Goochland County, VA, Republicans
February 28, 2006- Merrick "Mac" Carey It’s great to be here, and I appreciate the invitation to speak to your organization. I thought I would take a quick look at the contemporary policy and political scene, and share some observations with you that might be useful. [Read More...] -
Industry’s 9/11 Response
February 27, 2006- Merrick "Mac" Carey Article Published in Defense News On September 10th, 2001, our military, industrial, and intelligence apparatuses were not well configured for the terror war. Yet they have responded with impressive speed and success. America has sliced up Al Qaeda, overthrown two [Read More...] -
Speech to Fairfax County, Virginia Young Republicans
September 21, 2005- Merrick "Mac" Carey It’s great to be here in Fairfax County, and I appreciate the invitation to speak to your organization. I thought I would take a quick look at the contemporary policy and political scene, and share some observations with you that [Read More...]