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Biden's Defense Budget Is Detached From Reality
The Administration’s defense budget request fails to account for the world in which our warfighters must operate. It would reduce their capacity to...
Defense Budget
More Missions, Fewer Resources: Biden Revives a Failed Defense Recipe
As the Biden administration settles in, it is becoming more apparent that their plan for defense is to revive the Obama era’s tried-and-failed...
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China Hikes Defense Budget Again as U.S. Weighs Flatlining Pentagon Spending
Trying to preserve a veneer of democratic legitimacy, the Chinese government goes through the political theater of a meeting of its rubber-stamp...
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The Known Unknowns of China's Defense Budget
The Chinese Communist Party is notorious for obscuring how it runs the government of the People’s Republic of China. Its defence budget is...
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The Dangers of Trimming the Post-Coronavirus Defense Budget
If America ever chooses to tackle this debt problem, then constraining growth in defense spending and finding new Pentagon efficiencies should be part...
Defense Budget
Congress Should Pursue Pentagon Business Reforms
SUMMARY In periods of budget increases, reforms and efficiencies tend to fall by the wayside. That should not be the case.
Defense Budget
Guidelines for a Better—and Necessary—Round of BRAC
Summary President Trump’s 2018 budget request asked Congress to authorize a new round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). Six years in a row,...
Trump's Disrupt First, Negotiate Second: Greenland in Focus
By Meda Parameswara Reddy • RealClearDefense
In Seeking Peace With Beijing, Taipei Is an Asset, Not a Burden
By Alexandru Filip • RealClearDefense
Strike First: Israel's Inevitable Doctrine for the Iranian Axis
By Lance Gordon • RealClearDefense
It’s Not President Trump but Thomas Friedman Who Should Be Ashamed
By Francis P. Sempa • RealClearDefense-is-an-arenavirus-that-causes-Lassa-hemorrhagic-fever%252C-a-type-of-viral-hemorrhagic-fever-(VHF)-in-humans-a-500x500.jpg&w=128&q=75&dpl=dpl_DbjZqQQ1HxBX2f1hVuij3MDW3XJa)
Putin, Plague, and America’s Biodefense Gap
By Ryan Kane • RealClearDefense
U.S. and Japan Begin Naval Exercises Near Taiwan
By Mari Yamaguchi • Associated PressU.S. and Japan Begin Naval Exercises Near Taiwan
By Mari Yamaguchi, AP
U.S. Navy, Gecko Robotics Surge AI Maintenance Contract
By Ceder, Simkins, Navy T.
Ghost Shark XL-AUV Payload Bay Seen For First Time
By Thomas Newdick, The WarZone
Dakota Meyer Tapped As Barracks Task Force Senior Advisor
By C. Stassis, MC Times
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