Seth Cropsey
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Supply Chain
Open Warfare: Hidden Costs
As the world is re-learning, national security and economics are as inextricable as a mortise and tenon in a working wooden joint. Rising fuel prices...

Military Strategy
Strategy Trumps Industry
The United States is engaging in a dangerous exercise in bean-counting. The media hullabaloo over missile magazines and lengthy ship deployments is in...


Middle East
The U.S. Cannot Let Allied Fecklessness Stand
In the Middle East, the Trump administration risks snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Despite intense coordination between the U.

Military Strategy
Procurement Driving Strategy
Against the backdrop of a major U. S.

Military Strategy
The Hypersonic Threat
At the beginning of this year, North Korea claimed to have tested a hypersonic weapon. While doubts remain about the program’s technical maturity, the...

Military History
A Year That Will Live in Infamy
By the evening of December 7 th , 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt understood that the world crisis had taken a new, decisive turn. The United...

U.S. Coast Guard
Alaska's Strategic Importance to U.S. Security
From grave deficiencies in strategic lift and defense industrial base to submarine repair inadequacies, Yorktown Institute continues to highlight...

Maritime Strategy
Red Sea Blockade
On 6 March, a Houthi missile attack on a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen, killed three crewmen and forced evacuation of the burning ship. The...

Indo-Pacific/Asia
PRC Lawfare With Commercial Air Routes
A military jet fighter flies above the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island...

The Army’s AI Cyber Defenders Need a Proven Stand-Down Order
By Gleb Tsipursky • RealClearDefense
After the Silence
By Chase Skylar DeMayo • RealClearDefense
Defense Chip Procurement Needs a Recovery Test
By Percy Yixuanchen Yu • RealClearDefense
FORTRESS America Must Measure Missions, Not Megawatts
By Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense
After the Midterms, the Right Strategy Against Iran
By Lance Gordon • RealClearDefense

After the Silence
By Chase Skylar DeMayo • RealClearDefense
Underwater Arms Race Puts U.S. Naval Supremacy at Risk
By Tom O'Connor, Newsweek
New Facilities To Pump Out Upgraded F/A-18E/F Super Hornets
By Trevithick, WarZone
U.S. Navy Expands Tomahawk Warhead Production
By Naval News Staff, Naval News
SSN(X) Attack Boat Will be a Swift, Lethal Mothership for Undersea Drones
By USNI N.
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