War on the R.Some six months after Pearl Harbor, with American industry in a desperate rush to build tanks, planes and ships to defeat Japan, the Higgins shipyard had no choice but to relinquish a contract it had signed only months earlier to build ca…
Minxin Pei, Foreign AffairsCompetition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi JinpingOver the past few years, the United States’ approach to China has taken a hard-line turn, with the balance between cooperation and competition in the U.S.-Chinese r…
WSJA U.S.-based activist successfully made cracks in Kim Jong Un’s regimeuntil mishaps sent his group into hiding.ROMEOne morning in November 2018, North Korea’s top diplomat in Italy left his embassy’s compound with his wife. He told colleagues they …
Jon Harper, National Defense MagazineAUSTIN, Texas After years of fighting in desert-like conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps earlier in the decade was tasked with returning to its maritime roots. And with a renewed emphasis on fight…
J. Detsch, FPThe commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt had two direct calls with top Navy aides before his warning about the dire situation on board leaked publicly.Senior Navy officials were blindsided by a written plea for help from the commander …
Loren Thompson, ForbesDr. Will Roper, the U.S. Air Force’s top acquisition and technology official, is pressing his service to respond quickly and imaginatively to the stresses imposed on military contractors by the spread of coronavirus.Roper establi…
The HillThe COVID-19 outbreak is forcing all federal agencies to contemplate teleworking at scale. This creates unique challenges for the secretive intelligence community (IC), whose culture is anchored in security clearances, windowless buildings, cl…
Heritage F.The capabilities that the newly established Space Force can provide are vital to the nation’s defense. That fact, coupled with the minimal cost, makes the investment a fiscally and operationally prudent one. The Air Force should continue th…
Seattle TimesBoeing said late Thursday it will temporarily suspend operations starting Friday evening at the Philadelphia-area facility where it produces the H-47 Chinook and V-22 Osprey military rotorcraft. The site also conducts defense and commerci…