This week’s election draws to a close a race for President driven by identity politics—affinity by race, class, gender, etc.—rather than ideological competition or policy differences. As a result, resolution of the political contest will not unto itself unlock the calcified… Read more »
In what may be his last act to shape defense authorizations, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is pulling out all the stops to remake the Pentagon. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) is advancing a National Defense Authorization… Read more »
At the end of 2014, the CEO of naval shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, Mike Petters, delivered an address at the Atlantic Council entitled, “Playing the Long Game”. In it, Petters made the case for the chief executive’s leadership antidote to… Read more »
Signs of spring abound: The forsythia is in bloom; the crack of baseball’s opening day resounds; and the DoD Comptroller’s “Green Book” once again issues forth. The National Defense Budget Estimates for FY 2017, or Green Book, so-called by the… Read more »
Last month, while the world’s elites were gathering in Davos, Switzerland for Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, I was in Washington hosting an address by the acquisition executive of the U.S. Special Operations Command, James “Hondo” Geurts. While the setting… Read more »
The Atlantic Council, where I hold a fellowship, recently published an anthology of short fiction and graphic art it curated over the first year in our Art of Future Warfare Project. Entitled War Stories From the Future, the collection makes… Read more »
Several recent headlines– “Senators Call For Oversight On LRS-B Cost Estimates” “Oshkosh Wins JLTV Award” “Kendall ‘Open-Minded’ On Sharing RD-180 Replacement Costs” “Can Secretary Carter win over Silicon Valley?” –got me thinking about menswear and defense acquisition and why they are… Read more »
Five years beyond the inflection marked by the Great Recession’s bottom and Iraq War’s end, the market for mergers and acquisitions in aerospace and defense is finally heating up and taking shape. At this halfway point through 2015, the value… Read more »
There is no mistaking what’s foremost in Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work’s mind these days. Twice in two days last week, he used a tangential speaking obligation to underscore the key tenets of his call for a new offset… Read more »
Innovation is back in vogue at the Pentagon. In his last major address as Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel announced the Defense Innovation Initiative, challenging the defense enterprise to “pursue innovative ways to sustain and advance our military superiority for… Read more »