The Right’s Unilateral Disarmers
For several years now, some on the political right have portrayed the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Exim) as an exemplar of...
Defense Procurement Policy
Shutting down national security
On October 15th, our military personnel will receive their paychecks as usual, thanks to a last-minute act of Congress passed...
A tale of two Obamas
Barack Obama was even more prominently featured in the news on Sunday than is usual for a President of the...
The Future of Unmanned Flight
The infrastructure of the Air Force is aging. The average age of an airplane is 25 years, and even older...
Doing in defense
At this writing, many details of the debt ceiling deal wrangled out over the weekend remain fuzzy. One thing is...
2011 Freedom Flame Award: John Lehman
The past June, the Center for Security Policy awarded former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, father of the 600...
Huawei? No way
Last summer, a Chinese telecommunications giant founded by a former People's Liberation Army (PLA) engineer was rebuffed in its effort...
EADS/Airbus Government Ownership, Protection, Intervention & Subsidies
President Obama's new National Security Strategy begins with a pledge of American leadership and the assertion that "the center of...
Scandalous air tanker decision: Despite corruption, EADS favored over U.S.-based Boeing
Within days, the Obama Pentagon is expected to decide which supplier to rely upon for what is, arguably, the cornerstone...
EADS/Airbus Government Ownership, Protection, Intervention & Subsidies: The Effect on American Free Enterprise and National Security
President Obama’s new National Security Strategy begins with a pledge of American leadership and the assertion that “the center of...
Disastrously ‘transforming’ defense
Barack Obama came to office promising to "fundamentally transform" America. As President, he has done so with most obvious and...
WSJ picks wrong issue in Air Force tanker debate
It's highly unusual for The Wall Street Journal to be gulled into ignoring the most important part of an issue...
Hail to the Chiefs
Last week was not a good one for proponents of social re-engineering of the U.S. military. They had been buoyed...
Underestimating China
On a recent visit to Australia, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus downplayed the threat posed by China's rapid modernization...
Countering Beijing’s new weapon
According to the incoming commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Robert F. Willard, "In the past decade or so,...
Contract Dispute
Honest conservative partisans from either side of the KC-X "tanker war" should concede that there were no perfect choices in...