My father remembers a trip with my grandfather to the U.S. Military Academy in the early 1960s to watch a baseball game. They loved the game, but what...]]>
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment.
]]>The new documentary adds some needed context that was missing from the miniseries.
]]>The top U.S. military official got a whirlwind tour of a Lockheed Martin Corp. plant as the Pentagon attempts to assure contractors that it will provide...]]>
The Ukraine War has been dubbed the first drone war—and the first "StarLink War"—considering the publicly apparent role of advanced technologies in the conflict....]]>
CAMP PENDLETON, California — Inside a hulking white tent in an expeditionary command base next to the Pacific Ocean, projectors render a...]]>
WASHINGTON — HII has unveiled the latest model for its Remus series of unmanned undersea vehicles, the Remus 130, aimed at missions such as data collection, offshore...]]>
The Defense Department is still operating under a 2021 policy that sets a goal for active duty units to spend three months at home for every month they spend deployed, a...]]>
The United States does not have enough icebreaker ships to compete in the Arctic the way Russia can with its much larger fleet, a U.S. military commander warned.
]]>Air Force Commits $3.7 Billion to Sentinel ICBM in 2025
The United States Air Force has allocated a significant amount of its budget for the development of the Sentinel...]]>
With Kim Jong-un's recent statements that he considers the Republic of Korea (ROK) the "primary enemy" and no longer seeks peaceful unification, analysts in...]]>
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
]]>European discussions about sending troops obscures the fact that several NATO countries already have boots on the ground.
]]>"There's a path to autonomy ... It's going to be a graduated scale, or I kind of envision it as stair steps," Army Aviation Branch Chief Maj. Gen. Michael McCurry...]]>
General Electric Aerospace's T901 engine will power the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache and Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft fleets.
]]>Testing Collaborative Combat Aircraft—the unmanned, autonomous aircraft that will fly alongside crewed fighters with the goal of beefing up the future Air Force...]]>
In the next phase of the Army's EWPMT program, the service wants to tackle architecture issues.
]]>WASHINGTON — As the Army develops new ways to strike an adversary at longer ranges and with more than just steel, two units in Europe are learning what that means on...]]>
Wargames, as old as civilization, have evolved from lines in the sand to bytes in the cloud. Despite evolving technologies, experts insist the games remain...]]>
The Army has inked a contract with defense giant Lockheed Martin for a platoon's worth of what would be the U.S. military's most...]]>
Space Force pushing initiatives with allies to co-invest in programs and shore up supply chains
]]>WASHINGTON — Project Convergence started relatively small, with limited soldier participation.
At its inception in the Arizona desert in...]]>
The Army wants to introduce more obfuscation and deception for its units and command posts to "hide in plain sight" in the spectrum, according to top officials.
]]>The Revolutionary Communist Party (RevCom's) USA is an explicitly Marxist organization. It works toward the...]]>
Let's incentivize public service by prioritizing loan repayment for those who earn it
]]>As timelines compress for General Dynamics to deliver a new ballistic missile submarine for the U.S. Navy on schedule, the Pentagon reportedly is beginning to...]]>
WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation...]]>
Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he...]]>
Noted political forecaster Nate Silver has Ayotte with a 52.2 percent chance of winning re-election, while the RealClearPolitics polling average has her leading...]]>
Hillary Clinton is campaigning on the creation of no-fly zones in Syria, one of the few big breaks she has made from President Obama while campaigning for the White...]]>
Donald Trump is so forceful in his public presence and pronouncements that many observers simply assume he would be a decisive commander in chief. However, being decisive...]]>
The Washington foreign policy establishment is salivating at the thought of a Hillary Clinton presidency, which promises to be more interventionist than...]]>
The great challenge we face today is how to reconcile the imperative of global leadership with the necessity of reining in its costs.
]]>America's space program is suffering from significant under-investment — both the weak Obama-Clinton economy and a lack of strategic vision are major...]]>
Former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn writes that Donald Trump is an apprentice in the nuclear world. Worse, he has no appetite for learning.
]]>The GOP nominee's insistence that "our country has no idea" who hacked election targets follows numerous instances of resisting findings that implicate the Russian...]]>
The war in Afghanistan, reforming veterans assistance programs and looming defense spending caps got only passing mentions at the three big presidential forums.
]]>For the first time since the dawn of the Cold War, Republicans have nominated a presidential candidate who's often been proudly more dovish than...]]>
The presidential nominee's call to abandon America's ally will result in chaos on the peninsula and perhaps, ironically, deeper U.S. involvement, says...]]>
Communism is all about power and control. During the tyranny of the Soviet Union, one of the clearest examples of this was the Berlin Wall—a physical...]]>
5th Annual Reagan National Defense Forum to be held on December 1-2, 2017
President Obama, Commander Harris, ladies and gentlemen, and all American citizens:
I stand here at Pearl Harbor as the prime minister of Japan.
If we...]]>
The power utilities responsible for producing and delivering electricity are generally under-resourced for the task of preventing or limiting damage from cyberattacks. But one...]]>
The Wall Street Journal recently sat down with Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, to discuss the U.S. and and allied exercises in Europe,...]]>
After 35 years in aerospace, I find myself passionate about defense acquisition reform because the stakes are high, the challenges are deep, and the...]]>
To provide information on the upcoming Mad Scientist Conference to be held at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, Washington DC from 8-9 August...]]>
The NDAA authorizes funding at the level of the President's fiscal year 2017 budget request, and includes $602 billion of discretionary spending for national defense - $543...]]>
The following is a May 12, 2016 message from Cheif of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson to Navy flag officers and senior civilians on leadership and values in...]]>
The Wall Street Journal sat down recently with Gen. Philip Breedlove, the top commander of U.S. and alliance forces in Europe, to discuss tensions with...]]>
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered his own wide-ranging foreign policy speech as he took the floor for the weekly GOP address. McCain bashed President Obama's...]]>
WASHINGTON - Today, Chairman Thornberry released his proposal for H.R. 4909, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. To view the bill text...]]>
Newly available testimony from the Korean War has shed some light on why the war remained limited, and on how the Americans viewed the extent of their commitment...]]>
Islamist terror attacks are on the rise, but this has not caused the Obama administration to waver in its goal to welcome at least 10,000 Syrian...]]>
Seventy-five years ago, the world blew up in just six months. World War II ostensibly started two years earlier, when Germany invaded Poland. In truth, after the...]]>
â??All this violence and barbarism has paralyzed the French left since January 2015,â? Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to enter a conservative primary for next...]]>
How an obscure academic and a marginalized philosopher captured the minds of the Kremlin and helped forge the new Russian nationalism.
]]>Gray zone competitions vary in location and character and are currently the preferred alternative to challenging U.S. supremacy in the contemporary security environment....]]>
Had Turkeyâ??s military succeeded in toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last Friday, by seizing and consolidating power, and the public acquiesced, how would...]]>
KYIV, Ukraine—The Nice terror attack spurred finger pointing among France's political elite about insufficient security during Bastille Day celebrations, as well...]]>
Marking the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), state-run CCTV News ran a three-part series, â??Understanding the...]]>
Anyone who served in the military understands the underlying principle of getting the bottom line up front. Because in a war zone there is always a chance the...]]>
The national interests of the US, Russia, China, France, and Britain inevitably diverge. Since the founding of the UN, each nation has waged war, or supported...]]>
These days, terrorism seems not just more lethal and more common, but more widespread. The death toll in recent weeks speaks for itself: 22 people dead in...]]>
Today on the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen speaks with Retired Admiral Scott Swift, former Commander of the U.S....]]>
On today's episode of the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen speaks with Rep. Elaine Luria (VA-02), Democratic Vice Chair...]]>
REVIEW — In the early fifties, when the Soviet Union demonstrated its nuclear prowess and launched the first satellite into space, the world...]]>
The story occupies the spaces in the lives of Veterans that is too often submerged within novels, film and popular media. If you are looking for a safe and...]]>
War between the United States and China in the western Pacific is a real possibility in the next several years. Although both sides have conducted military exercises...]]>
At stake in the clash over Taiwan is not only control of the South China Sea, but also control of what Nicholas Spykman called the "Asiatic...]]>