The Marines Onboard the USS America: The Remaking of the Amphibious Strike Force

12/05/2016
2016-12-04 By Todd Miller “We’d always say ‘if its really a bad air to air (A2A) threat, get some additional jets up there, get some more capability.’  I have no pause or hesitation that this jet will dominate in an A2A environment, would dominate in a strike environment, dominate in…

Shaping a Trump Policy Template

12/03/2016
2016-12-03 By Harald Malmgren The election of Donald Trump as the next US President surprised most pollsters, political leaders in both major political parties, and the mainstream media. Broadly based political unrest seems to have materialized in the form of a populist revolt against Congress, the President, federal bureaucracy, lobbyists,…

The Canadian Government, Defense Procurement, and Software: Out of Phase with Western Defense Development and Modernization?

12/02/2016
2016-11-29 By Danny Lam The Liberal regime needs to be cognizant that Canada will always be a modest sized customer in the world arms market. As such, unique and irregular Canadian requirements and unorthodox procurement processes will sharply inflate cost and create long term issues of sustainability. Kludgey Canadian equipment…

Creating Terror-Free Zones: How a Citizen Organization is Helping in the Philippines

12/02/2016
2016-11-28 By Albert  Santoli, President, Asia America Initiative The Philippine archipelago of 7,000 islands and water passages of trade, defense and communications form a strategic crossroad vital to the security to the entire Pacific Region and the West Coast of the United States. The strategic relationship between the United States and the…