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  1. Editorial: We'll Always Have Paris

    The world's aerospace industries descend on Le Bourget for the 50th Paris Air Show at a turbulent time.

    • Jun. 9, 2013

  2. US Needs More Allies in Fight Against Piracy

    When director Kathryn Bigelow accepted an Academy Award in 2009 for her film, 'The Hurt Locker,' depicting a US Army bomb-disposal team, she thanked 'the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and aroun

    • Jun. 9, 2013

  3. Protect US Manufacturing Base

    The US defense industry has a proven playbook for success founded upon an elite manufacturing base. Today, faced with deep budget cuts, the challenge for the Department of Defense is ensuring that manufacturing base is available when crisis strikes.

    • Jun. 9, 2013

  4. Win Wars, Not Battles

    If there is one strategic weakness or Achilles' heel in American geostrategic thinking, it is a fixation on winning battles and not winning wars.

    • Jun. 3, 2013

  5. Editorial: Cut US Military Staff Bloat

    Three years ago as Defense Department spending was poised for a downturn, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates launched a broad efficiencies drive to cut staffs and stretch each dollar to cover higher-priority needs.

    • Jun. 2, 2013

  6. Time for Obama To Go Public on China's ASAT Program

    Reports indicate that China has finally tested at least part of a new, more advanced anti-satellite system. On May 13, China launched a rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.

    • Jun. 2, 2013

  7. Editorial: Plan for Asymmetrical Threats

    As America winds down its involvement in Afghanistan and President Barack Obama retools the nation's approach to fighting terrorism on a global scale, pressure is mounting to dismantle war-related activities such as JIEDDO, the Joint Improvised Explosive

    • May. 28, 2013

  8. Editorial: Japan Must Tread Carefully

    Japan's long-debated military renewal is being accelerated by the country's hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in response to China's increasingly aggressive drive to claim the Senkaku Islands long administered by Tokyo.

    • May. 28, 2013

  9. A Grand Strategic Narrative

    Each historical period needs a grand strategic narrative. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war, the United States had to decide whether the dominant '

    • May. 28, 2013

  10. Putting Focus on the Business of Defense

    Listening to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speak about the need to reform the Defense Department reminded me of times earlier in my career when similar warnings were issued, but not heeded.

    • May. 28, 2013

  11. Editorial: Strategy, Not Dollars

    Each time a US government department faces major challenges, the tendency of its leaders is to launch a strategic review.

    • May. 20, 2013

  12. Editorial: Stealth, Range Are Key

    The US Navy is poised for an unmanned revolution. Last week, for the first time, it successfully catapulted an unmanned jet from an aircraft carrier.

    • May. 20, 2013

  13. The 'S' Word: US Military Can Stay Best Despite Sequestration

    And so, sequestration has come. Sequestration is a reduction in funding without a reduction in programs, manpower, operational systems or infrastructure.

    • May. 20, 2013

  14. To Improve DoD Acquisition, Stop Reprogrammings

    Lost in the uproar about sequestration impacts on specific programs is that much of what's wrong with the Pentagon's finances is systemic or process related.

    • May. 20, 2013

  15. Reckless Abandon(ment)

    Despite massive furloughs looming, reductions in troop strength planned, fleets at anchor and air wings grounded due to severely curtailed operating funds, the Pentagon seems to be finding odd ways to dig itself out of the fiscal mess it is in.

    • May. 12, 2013

  16. Give US Industry a Seat at the Strategy Table

    Reading the history of US preparations for World War II is instructive.

    • May. 12, 2013

  17. Editorial: Pacific Collective Security

    While popular attention has focused on North Korea's extravagant and empty rhetoric, a far more dangerous conflict is brewing between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands.

    • May. 5, 2013

  18. Frontier Tension

    Amid all the media focus on China's maritime territorial disputes with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, the world nearly forgot that China still hosts the world's largest outstanding land border dispute with the world's largest democracy, India.

    • May. 5, 2013

  19. Clear the Air About 'Drone'

    From my experience as a senior civilian on the Air Force staff in the Pentagon from early 2002-10, including significant responsibilities involving the transfer of US aerospace systems to our foreign partners, I find the current discussion of so-called 'd

    • May. 5, 2013

  20. Clarify Air-Sea Battle

    Air-Sea Battle (ASB) has become a much-debated Pentagon concept to counter China's anti-access/area-denial challenge. Yet while allies welcomed America's military 'rebalance' toward Asia, they wonder what it means in concrete terms.

    • Apr. 29, 2013

  21. Embrace Cyber Executive Order

    The Chinese foreign minister issued a call March 10 for international cooperation on Internet espionage and called accusations of Chinese government involvement in recent hacking incidents an international smear campaign.

    • Apr. 28, 2013

  22. Editorial: Tread Carefully on MoD Privatization

    Britain has long prided itself as a military innovator in groundbreaking technology and novel business processes.

    • Apr. 28, 2013

  23. Editorial: Time To Consider Syria Options

    For two years, the international community has largely avoided involvement in Syria's increasingly bloody civil war.

    • Apr. 28, 2013

  24. Al-Qaida Threat to US Not Diminished

    The latest 'conventional wisdom' in counterterrorism holds that the threat to America posed by al-Qaida and its affiliates is greatly diminished since 9/11. Recent news headlines read: 'With Al Qaida Shattered, US Counter-Terrorism's Future Unclear' and

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  25. Bridging the Gap

    Throughout the US Department of Defense, military and civilian leaders see uncertainty and change. We need to find new ways to deliver results.

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  26. Editorial: Innovation Is Key

    The Boston bombings, a belligerent North Korea and an increasingly assertive China are stark reminders that the world remains a dangerous place.

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  27. Time for Realistic Budgeting

    No one is happy with the Obama administration’s $3.8 trillion fiscal 2014 budget proposal.

    • Apr. 14, 2013

  28. U.S. Service Interdependence

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has directed Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to conduct a review of military strategy in light of anticipated defense budget cuts extending over the next decade. Concurrently, the congressionally directed Quadrennial Defense Review, which has a similar objective, is underway.

    • Apr. 14, 2013

  29. Lyndon W. Obama?

    The shadow of North Korea’s latest provocations has obscured Iran and its nuclear ambitions. Another war on the Korean Peninsula would be a disaster for the Korean people, even though the military defeat of the North that is sure to follow would no doubt lead to the end of the Kim ruling dynasty.

    • Apr. 14, 2013
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