Colin Clark

Colin Clark, the founding editor of Breaking Defense, is now our Indo-Pacific Bureau Chief, based in Sydney, Australia. In addition to his foundational efforts at Breaking Defense, Colin also started DoDBuzz.com, the world’s first all-online defense news website. He’s covered Congress, intelligence and regulatory affairs for Space News; founded and edited the Washington Aerospace Briefing, a newsletter for the space industry; covered national security issues for Congressional Quarterly; and was editor of Defense News. Colin is an avid fisherman, grill genius and wine drinker, all of which are only part of the reason he relishes the opportunity to live in Australia.

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Posts by Colin Clark

New Cyber Advisor To OSD Policy

New senior cyber advisor for OSD policy, Maj. Gen. John Davis was director, operations at Cyber Command. 1.usa.gov/SU9Wol colinclarkaol

GOP Tax Saint Norquist Takes On Defense Spending; DoD Dough Does Not Create Jobs

UPDATED: Deleted Comment We Wrongly Attributed to Norquist That Came From Cato Website. WASHINGTON: That anguished sound you hear is the gnashing of teeth and grumbling among defense Republicans in reaction to comments today about the defense budget by Grover Norquist, he of the unbreakable pledge signed by most Republicans to never raise taxes. “Conservatives […]

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‘Toxic Brew’ Leads To Worsening Chinese-Japanese Ties; More Protests Pledged

WASHINGTON: Relations between China and Japan continue to worsen as a Hong Kong Chinese group promised major protests in September. And two of America’s top Peoples Liberation Army analysts tell us things may well get worse, given the long-simmering enmities between the two countries and the “toxic brew” of the region’s unresolved territorial claims and […]

Congress

White House Extends Export Administration Act, Again

WASHINGTON: This Congress may be worse than almost any other in history but you can’t lay the blame at its feet for its failure to reauthorize the Export Administration Act. I’ve been writing about this for more than a decade and the bill just never gets passed because members get cold feet and aren’t able […]

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Air Warfare

Marine Version Of F-35 Performs First Airborne Weapon Drop

Its supporters have argued for much of the last year that the F-35 was further along and in better shape than its critics were willing to give the program credit for. The plane, they argued, was close to combat-ready and once the first weapons tests occurred, people would see the truth of it. Well, the […]

New MDA Director Nominated

New Missile Defense Agency director nominated: Rear Adm. James Syring up to vice admiral. Syring is PEO for Integrated Warfare, NAVSEA aoldefense

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