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President Barack Obama’s 2009 Prague speech called for greater moral leadership on nonproliferation, and the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review pledged to put nonproliferation “atop” the U.S. nuclear agenda. But a little-noticed recent agreement with South Korea is the latest example that, in practice, this administration has done neither well, both on and off the peninsula.
Much like in the movie “Groundhog Day,” when the same day repeated over and over for the main character, the U.S. Department of Defense closed out 2012 like it did 2011, staring down the barrel of another half-trillion dollars in budget cuts.
Only Washington strikes a last-minute deal to avert a fiscal cliff by setting the stage for an even worse train wreck two months down the road.
The mid-November flare-up in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip, marked another step in the burgeoning trend of involvement by nonstate cyber actors in conflicts.
Is this July 1929, with financial Armageddon lurking around the corner? Or is this “fiscal cliff,” when tax hikes and spending cuts converge with potentially catastrophic economic results, merely a speed bump and warning that can be carefully negotiated over the coming months rather than on a crash basis? Or are we missing something much larger?
With negotiations to avert sequestration stalled, Pentagon officials are lobbying the White House for more flexibility in executing mandated cuts — if they happen.
Now that North Korea has defiantly violated United Nations sanctions by launching a satellite into orbit, the international community must immediately impose penalties on any nation that engages in business with Pyongyang.
Order in nature tends to break down; the same is true of civilizations. As an analyst, I find this immutable law both frightening and palpable. Decay will proceed — the only question is at what pace and whether it can be denied.
The last decade of investment in research, development and operations has yielded important space-based mission capabilities that differentiate the United States and its allies in the execution of national security objectives. These capabilities reaffirm the fruits of our labor, and our dedication to a strong national security space program is paying off.
With less than a month left for Congress and the White House to strike a deal to avert $500 billion in automatic defense cuts, the Obama administration has finally allowed the Pentagon to start planning how to implement them. It’s a good move and marks a full reversal for the administration that had steadfastly argued it was a waste of time to plan for cuts that might never happen.
In a critical milestone, China last week for the first time landed an aircraft on its first aircraft carrier. The event surprised some Western analysts who had dismissed mounting evidence Beijing was rapidly improving its carrier capabilities.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel killed the proposed union between EADS and BAE Systems, arguing the new company would siphon defense jobs from Germany to Britain. So to save jobs, one of Europe’s most powerful leaders rejected a transaction that would have benefitted overall European industry.
Over the past decade, the United States has witnessed remarkable advances in personal communications technology. Most of us now take for granted the ability to share all forms of information quickly, efficiently and cheaply. Our men and women in uniform have that same expectation.
In 2000, 170 U.S. House members voted against giving China permanent “normal trade relations.” They didn’t feel more free trade with China would lead to Chinese political reforms.
Some say the weather was a factor in the Israel-Gaza truce — the looming winter storm would obstruct Israeli airstrikes.
The U.S. presidential election is over, the sun is peeking from behind the clouds, and life in America can be truly wonderful, once again, right? Well, maybe not so easily. Some people might say it’s “morning in America” again, but that dark cloud obscuring the sun is our national debt.
“The future ain’t what it used to be,” as Yogi Berra wisely observed. There was a time when the goal of most intelligence agencies was to steal that one secret that would reveal an enemy’s intentions. The most difficult challenge was to crack a code, snatch a document or capture a signal that would expose the plans of rival superpowers, rogue nations or terrorists.
In unveiling its newest acquisition reforms last week, the United States joined Britain and France in moving to make exportability a key part of developing future weapons.
Bureaucracies don’t go down without a fight. The Pentagon is no different from any mature organization that becomes oversized, wasteful and often ineffective.
With a brief, 10-minute first flight Oct. 31 of its second advanced fifth-generation fighter jet, China is accelerating its airpower challenge. Meeting this challenge will require a greater investment in next-generation technology and better exploitation of current technology.
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