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Gaza Operation Underscores Need For Counter Drone Capabilities
July 15, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Israel’s ongoing fight to defend itself against terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas provides an important yardstick by which to measure the growing military capability of these groups. With support and training from states such as Iran, Hezbollah and [Read More...] -
Iraq Opportunity Costs: What America Could Have Had If It Never Invaded (From Forbes)
June 27, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D With policymakers contemplating whether to re-inject U.S. forces into Iraq, now is a good time to contemplate the opportunity costs America incurred the last time it intervened there. Costsofwar.org calculates that the U.S. has spent $1.7 trillion on the military [Read More...] -
Congressional Accounting Error Threatens Full Test Of JLENS System
June 24, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. Over the past decade, as it worked to secure the homeland and simultaneously fought two conflicts in Southeast Asia, the Department of Defense (DoD) invested in a wide range of new and innovative capabilities. Many of these, while contributing to [Read More...] -
Sunday’s Missile Defense Test Could Prove More Important Than What We Do In Iraq
June 23, 2014- Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D On Sunday the Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful test of the latest Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) built by Raytheon for the National Missile Defense system. It’s an arcane program that few people understand outside the missile-defense community, but one [Read More...] -
Missile Defense of the American Homeland Must Be Transformed
May 23, 2014- Constance Baroudos, M.A. More countries have nuclear weapons today than ever before, and non-state actors are trying to join the trend. Deterrence of aggression using purely offensive forces is becoming trickier, and the U.S. therefore must strengthen its active defense of the homeland [Read More...] -
World’s Largest Ballistic Missile Arsenals Are Targeted On U.S. And Its Pacific Allies
May 5, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, the top Air Force officer in the Asia-Pacific region has one of the hardest jobs in the world. His Area of Operations (AOR) is by far the largest in the world, extending from India to the [Read More...]
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