Tackling Hypersonic Threats: Offense Or Missile Defense?

Tackling Hypersonic Threats: Offense Or Missile Defense?
Tackling Hypersonic Threats: Offense Or Missile Defense?

Offensive missiles are much cheaper than missile defenses. So is the best defense a good offense?

Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’

Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’
Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’

SIMI VALLEY, CALIF.: “I don’t how we buy it back without a real bloodbath,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham. “It” is the $500 billion, 10-year cut to defense spending imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011, popularly (mis)called sequestration. Graham, one of Donald Trump’s harshest critics in the GOP, is not alone in thinking the…

Everybody Loves ‘Mad Dog’: Mattis Pick Reassures Allies

Everybody Loves ‘Mad Dog’: Mattis Pick Reassures Allies
Everybody Loves ‘Mad Dog’: Mattis Pick Reassures Allies

SIMI VALLEY, CALIF.: You might not think a man nicknamed “Mad Dog” would put America’s allies at ease. But that’s the buzz here at the Reagan Library’s annual defense conference, where Donald Trump‘s choice of Gen. James Mattis to run the Pentagon met with enthusiastic praise from the right, from the left, and from overseas.…

Amos & Dempsey: Don’t Just Stop Sequester, Save The Ground Force

Amos & Dempsey: Don’t Just Stop Sequester, Save The Ground Force
Amos & Dempsey: Don’t Just Stop Sequester, Save The Ground Force

REAGAN LIBRARY, SIMI VALLEY, CA: Sometimes you have to listen closely to the soft-spoken Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sometimes the Commandant of the Marine Corps says “hey, Sydney!” and hands you his message on a plate. But this Saturday, both Army Gen. Martin Dempsey and Marine Gen. James Amos were talking about…

Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?

Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?
Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?

Less than three weeks from today, a four-star-studded convoy of Obama administration appointees will head west to the modern GOP’s most hallowed ground, the Ronald Reagan Library – and burial site – in Simi Valley, Calif. The one-day conference is a rare attempt to build a national consensus on defense both between the parties and,…