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Parameters
Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing.   |
National Defense
March 2005
Roxana Tiron |
Pentagon Strategists Ponder Value of High-Tech Weapons The Pentagon's sweeping review of strategy and programs is expected to bolster investments in sensors, networks, information technology and precision-guided munitions. |
National Defense
August 2005
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture. |
National Defense
August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s. |
Parameters
Summer 2006
Colin S. Gray |
Stability Operations in Strategic Perspective: A Skeptical View Stability operations, the demand for them and the provision of new capabilities to perform them well, are the downstream product of larger decisions on U.S. foreign policy and strategy. |
National Defense
March 2006
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
QDR Lays Out Strategy, But Can We Afford It? At first glance, the fiscal year 2007 defense budget reflects the arduous challenges facing the administration in trying to balance long-term strategy and requirements against immediate priorities and fiscal pressures. |
National Defense
November 2013
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Fresh Thinking Needed in Quadrennial Defense Review In order to maintain a robust national defense enterprise, we must make hard choices about systems, people, force structure, infrastructure, investments, operations and management. |
National Defense
March 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
In the Latest Pentagon Strategy, Uncertainty Rules An elaborate plan recently unveiled by the Defense Department aims to prepare the military services to cope with a wide range of threats to national security during the next 20 years. |
National Defense
March 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Strategy Drills Air Force strategists preparing for an upcoming war game are setting their sights on 2025, mapping out scenarios for how the service will organize, equip and train its forces two decades from now. |
National Defense
May 2014
Dan Parsons |
Special Operations a Valuable Tool In Dealing With Bloody African Conflicts Deploying small numbers of specially trained troops, namely Army Special Operations Forces that are well versed in supporting indigenous troops, can pay dividends, said Michael D. Lumpkin, assistant secretary of defense. |
National Defense
March 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Review: Beltway Dogfighting at Its Best Military officials have, in recent weeks, been diligently articulating their thinking on how each service contributes to the overall national security strategy. |
National Defense
March 2010
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Budget and Quadrennial Review Sidestep Critical Issues The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and the fiscal year 2011 defense budget proposal seek to achieve some worthy goals, but acknowledgement of disconnects between program priorities and existing spending plans is missing. |
National Defense
December 2003
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
'Access' Challenges in Expeditionary Operations The fact that friendly nations are becoming sensitive about hosting U.S. forces should be a wake-up call. Eventually, the services will need to develop a joint vision and concept of operations for how to tackle these challenges. |
National Defense
December 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army: War Duties Should Warrant a Bigger Budge Despite their involvement in the war, the Army did not get a large increase in next years defense budget. |
National Defense
July 2014
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
What a Difference World Events Make The latest Quadrennial Defense Review was shaped by a rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, but urgent events elsewhere may nullify those assumptions. |
National Defense
November 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
More Than Money, Defense Needs Compelling Narrative Pentagon watchers already are warning that this is no time for business as usual, considering the domestic political climate and the fiscal crunch that could put defense spending in the cross hairs of a future deficit-reduction deal. |
National Defense
December 2005
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Military Not the Only Solution To Gaps in Disaster Response At a time of tightening budgets and competing priorities for defense and homeland security funds, one of the most contentious issues being debated at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill is whether the Defense Department should take primary responsibility in disaster response and relief operations. |
National Defense
February 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Rivalries Rekindled Over `Roles and Missions' The team spirit seen on the front lines typically does not translate into affable negotiations at the Pentagon's budget table, where the services wage bureaucratic wars for their share of a $420 billion defense pie. |
National Defense
May 2005
Roxana Tiron |
Future Pentagon Investments To Reshape Defense Industry Despite being heavily committed in the Middle East, Defense Department officials argue that long-range investment decisions must begin now if the military is to have crucial capabilities 20 years down the road. |
National Defense
August 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness? |
National Defense
February 2010
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Predicted Fiscal Train Wreck Fast Becoming a Grim Reality The defense budget is about to be released by the Obama administration and, with other documents, will provide the first real insight into the administration's long-term military and national security strategies. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Noah Shachtman |
The Great Weapons Debate The Pentagon wants to deploy a host of exotic new weapons systems. Critics say too much of this costly hardware is designed to fight the wrong war. |
National Defense
October 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
As Military Becomes More Reliant On Networks, Vulnerabilities Grow If problems are not addressed, the Pentagon could spend $200 billion during the next 10 years on a network with serious vulnerabilities, according to security experts. |
National Defense
September 2014
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Strategy in a Square Corner A square corner is an apt description of the situation now facing the Defense Department. It has a strategy laid out in the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review that could not possibly be executed with its current resources. |
National Defense
April 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
To Defense Industry, the Future Looks Uncomfortably Unfamiliar The defense industry is the only portion of the federal budget that the president sheltered from the axe. |
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John Keller |
The big defense cuts that didn't happen Many of the anticipated big cuts in the Pentagon's 2006 budget request have simply failed to materialize - yet. The U.S. Department of Defense budget request contains solid funding for electronics-rich programs such as the Air Force F/A-22 fighter-bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and the Army Future Combat System. |
National Defense
August 2010
Thomas A. Benes |
How Will the Defense Industry Adjust to New Fiscal Realities? Given the country's current fiscal and political environment, everyone, including defense industry leaders, is expecting changes in military spending and acquisition policy. |
National Defense
June 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Climate Change: What Should the Pentagon Do? Among the topics that are being debated in the Quadrennial Defense Review is the impact of climate change on U.S. national security. |
National Defense
August 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Spurs its Biological And Chemical Defense Programs The Pentagon is trying to buttress the military's defensive posture against biological and chemical weapons by focusing on the development of advanced vaccines and improved therapeutics. A surge in money is fueling this effort. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2011
Andrew Tonner |
Are Defense Stocks Really This Cheap? This out-of-favor sector could provide some serious bargains. |
