In my latest WPR column, I try to think through specifically who gets hurt by the migration of retired generals and admirals into the defense industry: For a variety of reasons, traditional defense suppliers have huge advantages over newcomers, even when the technologies in question...
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On Friday evening, InksptsGulliver and I got into a long argument about the appropriate role of ideology in defense policymaking, and consequently of the meaning of “progressive” and “conservative” defense.
Bernard Finel suggests that my rant last week about progressive thought on defense slighted existing progressive defense analysts. I partially agree, but only partially. The essay that I wrote was.
First off, let me recommend some reading on a couple of defense issues. Galrahn has an excellent post (really, the latest of a long, long series of excellent posts) on the dual Littoral Combat Ship buy. See also UltimaRatioReg who, with typically purple prose, raises...
Idea: Today, the United States has virtually no interest in the modernization of the British nuclear force. To the extent that the United States has influence over British defense decisions,.
Visit your nearest Lockheed Martin dealer today: Via Trimble.
This article, about Pakistan's preference for F-16s is pretty interesting: Pakistanis are fascinated, if not obsessed, with F-16 fighter jets. It is the best fighting aircraft in the fleet of the Pakistan air force, allowed to be flown by only the country’s best pilots. Video...
An alternative title to this article might have been "Russia's arms industry a pathetic shambles." Russia is to embark on the biggest overseas arms shopping spree in its modern history.
Among other things, they cut defense spending. In the United States, it's impossible to cut defense spending, because the world's reserves of whiskey/sexy/democracy/freedom depend utterly on the ability of the.
Davida Isaacs and I have an article at TAPPED on Iron Man 2 and defense contracting: Explosions, tattoos, and Scarlett Johansson notwithstanding, the disputes between Tony Stark and his antagonists revolve around ownership of the rights to the Iron Man technology. Iron Man 2 is...
Over at ID, I respond to some noodlings on baseball and naval force structure.
I have a short article up at World Politics Review about the sale of the French Mistrals to Russia: France's decision to negotiate the sale of four Mistral-class Amphibious Transport.