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Air Warfare
An EU Air Force Is Impossible; Fortunately, It's Not Necessary.
Early last month, as David Cenciotti of The Aviationist reported, A-10Cs of the Maryland Air National Guard were again practicing landings and...

Europe
An EU Army Is Impossible; Fortunately, It's Not Necessary.
To rebuild robust land forces, Europeans should think a little like Americans, a little like Russians, and otherwise for themselves. Shortly after the...

Defense Budget
Can Defense Industrialists Work with Trump?
Whatever opprobrium the president is owed, his administration's more important initiatives deserve attention. Donald Trump’s twin business advisory...

Uncategorized
Avoiding Despair About Military Radio Communications Is the First Step Towards Robust Solutions.
The US Army may be taking a knee in its pursuit of modernizing its battlefield radio communications. After fifteen years of pursuing its Warfighter...

Supply Chain
Is Imported Aluminum a Threat to American National Security?
National security, the late economist Merton Miller once reminded me, gets invoked to justify all sorts of tomfoolery. Last month, I wrote about the...

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Exports and End-Use
Don’t ask for audits in the middle of the war on ISIS. In a report this week, Amnesty International expresses its annoyance that “the US Army failed...

Defense Budget
Is Imported Steel a Threat to American National Security?
It hasn’t been, it isn’t now, and it probably won’t be in the future. Last month, President Donald Trump promulgated a memorandum on “ Steel Imports...

Military Strategy
Need for Speed: Will Hypersonic Weapons Pay Off?
Last month, Guy Norris reported for Aviation Week & Space Technology on how the Chinese government has revealed a national plan for hypersonic...

Pentagon
R&E + A&S > AT&L
It’s old news by now, but in February 2018, the Pentagon’s under secretariat for acquisition, technology, and logistics (AT&L) will be split into two...

Cyber Warfare
Will DARPA Get Its Cylons Back?
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal , Daniel Michaels and his team write of how what’s “Driving U. S.

After the Midterms, the Right Strategy Against Iran
By Lance Gordon • RealClearDefense
The Color Revolution Came Home
By Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
When Access Becomes the Fight
By Richard Byno • RealClearDefense
What the 2026 Midterm Results Mean for U.S. Strategic Competition with Rivals
By Dean Chen • RealClearDefense
Measurable by Design: Project Meridian
By Alex Willard • RealClearDefense

New USAF Force Design Bets on Technology
By Stephen Losey, Air & Space Forces
DoD Pushes $450M in Loans To Bolster U.S. Space Companies
By Hitchens, BrDefense
The U.S. Navy Needs a New Battlecruiser. Will It Get One?
By Sadler & Ouellette, NatInt
U.S. Army Rehearses Rapid HIMARS Rocket Launcher Deployment
By Global Defense N.
Coding Commander's Intent into Unmanned Systems
By Thomas Baumstark, Proceedings
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