RCD America's security and prosperity is at high risk today, largely because of bad policies backed up by too weak armed forces. Consider our U.S. maritime complex. Decades of neglect and...
Osborn, Warrior M. The pace at which the People's Republic of China is building and adding Navy ships and aircraft carriers is not likely to be overlooked at Pentagon and throughout the...
Hitchens, BrDefense GEOINT 2024 — Rather than focusing on one type of the technology, the Army is seeking out a diverse range of alternatives to GPS satellites to provide positioning,...
DefOne The Marine Corps will send small logistics drones to every logistics battalion in the service by 2028, officials said at the Modern Day Marine conference—part of the Corps' overall...
Josh Luckenbaugh, NatDefMag COLORADO SPRINGS — Lockheed Martin recently launched a pair of small satellites the company hopes will showcase how space can enable the...
Military.com The Marine Corps' new amphibious combat vehicle, or ACV, debuted in the Philippines as part of its first overseas deployment after more than a year-and-a-half of limited...
DNews ORLANDO — The U.S. is gaining valuable insights about the performance of its technologies amid electronic interference as Ukrainian troops use them on the front lines, according to...
USNI N. Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is back in the Red Sea and has been deployed for more than 200 days, according to USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker data....
Todd South, Army Times Thousands of enemy troops pour across the border, invading the sovereign nation of Pirtuni — a staunch U.S. ally. The "Donovians" rush infantry, armor and...
NIPP INTRODUCTION The United States is approaching a crossroads on homeland missile defense. As a result of rapid...
Bloomberg The Pentagon has sent Congress a classified request to shift $300 million in funds to speed development and purchasing of its first Replicator drones, an effort to field thousands...
Army Technology Elbit Systems has secured a contract to deliver Iron Fist active protection systems (APS) to support the modernisation of the U.S. Army's Bradley M2A4E1 infantry fighting...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/05/07/us_armys_bradley_ifvs_getting_iron_fist_aps_1029899.html
Dodge, Providence Matthew Kroenig and Daniel Negrea have charted a new path for Republican foreign policy
Providence While some have argued Israeli-Arab normalization will never happen, recent cooperation against Iranian missile attacks proves otherwise
Center Sq. (The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs pledged to protect veterans and address any problems identified by federal watchdogs after an Inspector General...
Francis P. Sempa, The Russell Kirk Center As the United States pours more resources into the Ukraine War and the conflicts in the Levant, our policymakers could do worse than reflect on a...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/05/06/the_geography_of_the_peace_at_eighty_1029634.html
DefenseOne NO LESS THAN IN YESTERDAY'S ERA OF COUNTER-TERRORISM, SOF ARE INDISPENSABLE IN TODAY'S GREAT POWER COMPETITION.
Patrick Drennan, The Hill Things aren't looking good for Ukraine. Russian
Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski, TAC A new book examines weaknesses in China's meritocratic system—and in our own.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/04/25/meritocracy_and_the_great_power_competition_1027368.html
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/04/26/odysseus_at_home_1027698.html
Ellie Cook, Newsweek
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/29/the_plan_to_defeat_russia_revealed_1021587.html
Jamie Dettmer, Politico
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/29/ukraine_scrambling_to_dig_enough_trenches_1021592.html
Iain Martin, The Times
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/29/its_time_we_talked_about_the_fall_of_kyiv_1021590.html
Holly Ellyatt, CNBC
Igor Kossov, Yahoo
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/29/portrait_of_the_russians_two_years_later_1021594.html
Reuters
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/29/russia_violates_polands_air_space_1021593.html
Mark Temnycky, The Hill
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/29/russia_understands_power_not_peace_1021589.html
A Little, Resp. Stat.
Chad De Guzman, Time
Associated Press
Alexandra Sharp, FP
Yoko Kubota & Liza Lin, WSJ
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/28/china_seeks_to_soothe_anxieties_of_us_ceos_1021326.html
Y Sharma, Univ. World News
Isaac Hanson, Verdict
Richard Vanderford, Mint
S Pifer & J Herbst, Atlantic Council
Noah Kirsch, The Daily Beast
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/27/the_pope_continues_to_pressure_ukraine_1020975.html
Alice Scarsi, Express
Charlie Bradley, Express
Meaghan Tobin et al., New York Times
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/03/26/has_china_lost_its_taste_for_the_iphone_1020677.html
Zachary Folk, Forbes
Sherelle Jacobs, Telegraph
Ocean County Register
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/01/31/pull_american_troops_from_the_middle_east_1008496.html
Hadeel Al-Shalchi, OPB
N Zilber, Christian Science Monitor
Stephen Collinson, CNN
Matthew Petti, Reason
R Heinrichs et al., Prov. Mag.
John Bacon et al., USA Today
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/01/31/the_mix_up_that_led_to_deaths_in_jordan_1008499.html
Anthoni van Nieuwkerk, Daily Maverick
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/01/31/icj_ruling_wont_change_israels_behaviour_1008501.html
Dan Sagalyn, PBS
George Bass, Washington Post
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/12/25/a_korean_war_christmas_miracle_1000977.html
Albert Lores & Christian-Zsolt Varga, Guardian
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/12/25/war_knows_no_holidays_1000973.html
Nick Miller, The Athletic
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/12/25/football_and_the_christmas_truce_1000979.html
Adria Goins, KFOR
Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union Tribune
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/12/25/marines_share_christmas_eve_with_veterans_1000968.html
Angelica Stabile, Fox News
Jeremy Bowen, BBC
Anna Conkling, Daily Beast
Genevieve Holl-Allen, The Telegraph
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/11/14/could_tony_blair_end_the_gaza_war_992492.html
Francis P. Sempa, RealClearDefense
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/11/10/the_forever_wars_hidden_costs_991950.html
Hitchens, BrDef THE FIRST LOCKHEED MARTIN NGI IS FORECAST FOR DELIVERY TO THE WARFIGHTER AS EARLY AS FISCAL 2027, ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY.
Todd South, Army Times WASHINGTON — As the Army develops new ways to strike an adversary at longer ranges and with more than just steel, two units in Europe are learning what that means on...
Defense One A U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND EXERCISE SHOWS THAT OPERATIONS CAN—AND SOON MUST—BE CENTERED ON LIVE DATA FEEDS.
John Hill, Army T. General Electric Aerospace's T901 engine will power the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache and Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft fleets.
Mikayla Easley, DefScoop "There's a path to autonomy ... It's going to be a graduated scale, or I kind of envision it as stair steps," Army Aviation Branch Chief Maj. Gen. Michael McCurry...
John A. Tirpak, A&SF Mag Testing Collaborative Combat Aircraft—the unmanned, autonomous aircraft that will fly alongside crewed fighters with the goal of beefing up the future Air Force...
Mark Pomerleau, DefenseScoop In the next phase of the Army's EWPMT program, the service wants to tackle architecture issues.
Laura Heckmann, NatDefMag Wargames, as old as civilization, have evolved from lines in the sand to bytes in the cloud. Despite evolving technologies, experts insist the games remain...
Military.com The Army has inked a contract with defense giant Lockheed Martin for a platoon's worth of what would be the U.S. military's most...
DefScoop The Army wants to introduce more obfuscation and deception for its units and command posts to "hide in plain sight" in the spectrum, according to top officials.
Space News Space Force pushing initiatives with allies to co-invest in programs and shore up supply chains
Colin Demarest & Jen Judson, Defense News WASHINGTON — Project Convergence started relatively small, with limited soldier participation. At its inception in the Arizona desert in...
Francis Sempa, RCDefense War between the United States and China in the western Pacific is a real possibility in the next several years. Although both sides have conducted military exercises...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/06/10/american_sea_power_in_the_asia-pacific_939897.html
Rep. Mark Green, RCDefense Communism is all about power and control. During the tyranny of the Soviet Union, one of the clearest examples of this was the Berlin Wall—a physical...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/06/12/xi_jinping_tear_down_this_wall_940181.html
The Guardian
Francis P. Sempa, Real Clear Defense At stake in the clash over Taiwan is not only control of the South China Sea, but also control of what Nicholas Spykman called the "Asiatic...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/05/13/chinas_caribbean_sea_899279.html
Shapiro, WashExam Let's incentivize public service by prioritizing loan repayment for those who earn it
Alexander Soule, CT Insider As timelines compress for General Dynamics to deliver a new ballistic missile submarine for the U.S. Navy on schedule, the Pentagon reportedly is beginning to...
Scott Swift & John Sorensen, RealClearDefense Today on the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen speaks with Retired Admiral Scott Swift, former Commander of the U.S....
Faddis, AND Mag. WALK-OUT TO PROTEST ROE V. WADE SCHEDULED FOR 26 MAY The Revolutionary Communist Party (RevCom's) USA is an explicitly Marxist organization. It works toward the...
Dustin Volz, WSJ SEARCHES IN NATIONAL-SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS CAME WITHOUT WARRANTS, COULD STOKE PRIVACY CONCERNS IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Elaine Luria & John Sorensen, RealClearDefense On today's episode of the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen speaks with Rep. Elaine Luria (VA-02), Democratic Vice Chair...
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation 5TH ANNUAL REAGAN NATIONAL DEFENSE FORUM TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 1-2, 2017
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2017/02/01/5th_annual_reagan_national_defense_forum_289956.html
Editors, Small Wars Journal President Obama, Commander Harris, ladies and gentlemen, and all American citizens: I stand here at Pearl Harbor as the prime minister of Japan. If we...
Amy Chozick, New York Times Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he...
Saagar Enjeti, Daily Caller Noted political forecaster Nate Silver has Ayotte with a 52.2 percent chance of winning re-election, while the RealClearPolitics polling average has her leading...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/11/08/is_the_pentagon_losing_a_staunch_ally_287401.html
Kristina Wong, The Hill Hillary Clinton is campaigning on the creation of no-fly zones in Syria, one of the few big breaks she has made from President Obama while campaigning for the White...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/11/07/clinton039s_big_difference_with_obama_287363.html
Loren Thompson, TNI Donald Trump is so forceful in his public presence and pronouncements that many observers simply assume he would be a decisive commander in chief. However, being decisive...
Barbara Slavin, Voice of America The Washington foreign policy establishment is salivating at the thought of a Hillary Clinton presidency, which promises to be more interventionist than...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/10/26/will_clinton_resist_her_inner_hawk_287005.html
Sam Nunn, Wall Street Journal Former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn writes that Donald Trump is an apprentice in the nuclear world. Worse, he has no appetite for learning.
Evan McMullin, The National Interest The great challenge we face today is how to reconcile the imperative of global leadership with the necessity of reining in its costs.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/10/24/why_i039m_running_for_president_286960.html
Robert Walker & Peter Navarro, SN America's space program is suffering from significant under-investment — both the weak Obama-Clinton economy and a lack of strategic vision are major...
Michael Crowley, Politico The GOP nominee's insistence that "our country has no idea" who hacked election targets follows numerous instances of resisting findings that implicate the Russian...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/10/21/trump_sides_with_putin_over_us_intelligence_286872.html
Leo Shane III, MT The war in Afghanistan, reforming veterans assistance programs and looming defense spending caps got only passing mentions at the three big presidential forums.
Steven Yaccino & Steven Yaccino, Bloomberg For the first time since the dawn of the Cold War, Republicans have nominated a presidential candidate who's often been proudly more dovish than...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/10/13/hillary_clintonrsquos_military_targets_286611.html
Michael O'Hanlon, Wall Street Journal The presidential nominee's call to abandon America's ally will result in chaos on the peninsula and perhaps, ironically, deeper U.S. involvement, says...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/10/12/trumprsquos_dangerous_korean_gamble_286594.html
Robert Farley, The Diplomat Newly available testimony from the Korean War has shed some light on why the war remained limited, and on how the Americans viewed the extent of their commitment...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/10/04/why_the_korean_war_remained_limited_286367.html
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs, Providence Journal Islamist terror attacks are on the rise, but this has not caused the Obama administration to waver in its goal to welcome at least 10,000 Syrian...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/08/04/syria039s_terrorist_diaspora_284509.html
Amanda Macias, BI â??All this violence and barbarism has paralyzed the French left since January 2015,â? Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to enter a conservative primary for next...
Victor Davis Hanson, NR Seventy-five years ago, the world blew up in just six months. World War II ostensibly started two years earlier, when Germany invaded Poland. In truth, after the...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/29/when_a_war_went_worldwide_75_years_ago_284340.html
Charles Clover, Foreign Pol. How an obscure academic and a marginalized philosopher captured the minds of the Kremlin and helped forge the new Russian nationalism.
Larry Kay, SWJ Gray zone competitions vary in location and character and are currently the preferred alternative to challenging U.S. supremacy in the contemporary security environment....
Aaron David Miller, WSJ Had Turkeyâ??s military succeeded in toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last Friday, by seizing and consolidating power, and the public acquiesced, how would...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/22/what_if_turkey039s_military_coup_succeeded_284109.html
Samantha Hoffman, et al., War on the R. Marking the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), state-run CCTV News ran a three-part series, â??Understanding the...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/18/china039s_state_security_commission_283978.html
Nolan Peterson, Daily S. KYIV, Ukraine—The Nice terror attack spurred finger pointing among France's political elite about insufficient security during Bastille Day celebrations, as well...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/18/france_grapples_with_how_to_combat_terrorism_283972.html
George Friedman, Mauldin Econ. The national interests of the US, Russia, China, France, and Britain inevitably diverge. Since the founding of the UN, each nation has waged war, or supported...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/15/there039s_no_such_thing_as_an_illegal_war_283893.html
Mike Galloucis, W. Times Anyone who served in the military understands the underlying principle of getting the bottom line up front. Because in a war zone there is always a chance the...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/15/why_obama_must_pardon_gen_david_petraeus_283885.html
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic These days, terrorism seems not just more lethal and more common, but more widespread. The death toll in recent weeks speaks for itself: 22 people dead in...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/07/15/is_terrorism_getting_worse_283884.html
Lex. Inst. The power utilities responsible for producing and delivering electricity are generally under-resourced for the task of preventing or limiting damage from cyberattacks. But one...
Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal recently sat down with Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, to discuss the U.S. and and allied exercises in Europe,...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/06/20/gen_mark_milley_talks_europe_283125.html
Scott E. Chandler, Lexington Institute After 35 years in aerospace, I find myself passionate about defense acquisition reform because the stakes are high, the challenges are deep, and the...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/06/15/achieving_dod_acquisition_goals_282942.html
U.S. Army TRADOC, SWJ Blog To provide information on the upcoming Mad Scientist Conference to be held at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, Washington DC from 8-9 August...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/06/01/tradoc_g-2_call_for_papers_282524.html
Dept. of Defense
SASC, U.S. Senate The NDAA authorizes funding at the level of the President's fiscal year 2017 budget request, and includes $602 billion of discretionary spending for national defense - $543...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/05/17/senate_armed_services_committee_ndaa_2017_282072.html
Adm. J. Richardson, USNI The following is a May 12, 2016 message from Cheif of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson to Navy flag officers and senior civilians on leadership and values in...
Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal sat down recently with Gen. Philip Breedlove, the top commander of U.S. and alliance forces in Europe, to discuss tensions with...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/05/03/qampa_with_gen_philip_breedlove_281618.html
Evelyn Rupert, The Hill Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered his own wide-ranging foreign policy speech as he took the floor for the weekly GOP address. McCain bashed President Obama's...
Rep. Mac Thornberry, HASC WASHINGTON - Today, Chairman Thornberry released his proposal for H.R. 4909, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. To view the bill text...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/04/25/fy17_national_defense_authorization_act_281376.html