Laird, SLDinfo During my visit to Europe earlier this Fall, the surprise announcement of the Morrison Administration’s decision to shift from their French alliance to deliver a long-range diesel submarine to acquiring nuclear submarine capability thro…
Space News WASHINGTON — Satellites in space provide essential services in support of national security and the civilian economy. The U.S. government, however, does not technically consider space systems “critical infrastructure,” which is slowing down…
Loren Thompson, Forbes When it comes to foreign relations, Washington sometimes seems to be its own worst enemy.
U.S. political leaders routinely say and do things that seem calculated to alienate allies and other overseas partners.
President Biden is…
Benjamin Brimelow, 1945 With the possible exception of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, no ships in the Russian navy are as important or held in higher regard than Kirov-class, or Russia’s nuclear battlecruisers.
At 827 feet long and with a dis…
USNI News A cascade of failures – from a junior enlisted sailor not recognizing a fire at the end of their duty watch to fundamental problems with how the U.S. Navy trains sailors to fight fires in shipyards – are responsible for the five-day blaze th…
Jon Harper, National Defense Magazine Since 9/11, personnel-related expenditures have ballooned for the Defense Department. While reining in such costs could free up money for modernization, doing so would come with political and manpower risks that m…
Al-Monitor The IRGC commander was enumerating U.S. failures in the region only hours after reports that Israel was allocating a special budget for a military strike on Iran.
Stephen Bryen, Center for Security Policy The Financial Times originally reported on October 16 that China had tested a hypersonic nuclear missile in late August that was launched in low earth orbit, circled the earth and then failed to hit its target…
Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense Brig. Gen. William Glaser, head of the Army’s Synthetic Training Environment effort, said his team is “very proud” of One World Terrain because it “really just started off as an idea within the simulations community,…