Rebeccah Heinrichs
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Extending New START Makes U.S. Nuclear Modernization Imperative
SUMMARY The United States has extended the flawed New START agreement with Russia for five years—receiving not a single reform for its agreement to...

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Our ICBMs Are Necessary and No They Are Not on Hair-Trigger Alert
A flurry of opinion pieces have called into question the Air Force’s decision to award the contract to begin building the country’s new...

Pentagon
Trump, National Command Authority and Lawful Orders
The Commander of U. S.

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Common Defense Through Missile Defense
North Korea may be preparing its sixth nuclear test since 2006 and conducting three missile launches since President Trump’s inauguration. Iran has...

North Korea
The Perils of U.S. Missile Defense
Rebeccah Heinrichs Just weeks after North Korea tested its fifth nuclear weapon, I found myself climbing down into a silo that houses a Ground-based...

Space Warfare
Space and the Right to Self Defense
Executive Summary The United States has for decades enjoyed pre-eminent military stature, due in large part to the overwhelming technological...

North Korea
Can North Korea's Ballistic Missiles be Stopped?
North Korea’s recent nuclear test is the 4th underground nuclear test since 2006. In a classic show of force meant to deter North Korea and assure the...

Russia
"Inexperience" is not to Blame for Waning U.S. Power and Influence
Russia’s aggressive military campaign in Syria proves Vladimir Putin has out-maneuvered Barack Obama and if he is not stopped he will continue to...

Military Strategy
U.S. Foreign Policy Is Overdue For Some Realism
According to a news report, Department of Defense officials admitted the United States might not be prepared to fight a sustained military conflict...

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Time to Get Serious About Nuclear Deterrence
The United States is behaving in such a way that does not lower the chances of nuclear conflict; to the contrary, this administration, so dedicated to...

In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense

Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZone
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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