Deterrence In an Increasingly Dangerous World
By George Landrith • American Military News North Korea has test fired five new missiles and claims to have successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. Iran too…
Congress’ Fiscal Straightjacket Continues Putting Our Nations Security At Risk
by George Landrith • Daily Caller National security conservatives and military experts have long warned about steep cuts to the defense budget in recent years. These warnings…
F-35 vs. A-10 Matchup Isn’t ‘Silly’ After All
by Gillian Rich • Investor’s Business Daily A matchup between Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE:LMT) F-35 vs. the older A-10 Warthog isn’t so “silly” after all. The Pentagon’s…
The Budget Caps and America’s Security Needs
by Peter Huessy The President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget makes a defense spending request that exceeds the Budget Control Act (BCA) spending cap for FY16 by $35 billion with a…
Playing at Nuclear Roulette
by Peter Huessy The President’s defense budget has been submitted to Congress and at $585 billion is getting a lot of attention. One area of controversy is the nuclear modernization…
Nuclear Coercion
by Peter Huessy Cutting $70 billion over the next ten years from America’s nuclear deterrent is the goal of a number of proponents of global zero. The cut would be…
Diplomacy Failed in Iran: Fund Missile Defense
by George Landrith • Townhall The US and several other nations have been in “talks” in hopes of negotiating with Iran to stop its nuclear…
Nuclear Deterrence is Job #1
By Peter R. Huessy On September 18th, a senior group of professional nuclear deterrent experts gathered in Washington, D.C. to hear the top nuclear deterrent and policy leaders in the…
Coalition Letter Supporting Fully Funding Missile Defense
TO: Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Sen. Thad Cochran, Chairman, Senate Appropriations…
Keeping the Bear at Bay
Helping Europe with missile defense would show Russia that the U.S. is serious. The U.S. needs to show that Putin’s ambition will be checked. by Peter Roff The world –…
With greater risks, weaker capability is a bad strategy
by George Landrith Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to invade neighboring nations to rebuild the former Soviet-era empire. Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons. North Korea…
National Security Fairy Tales: US defense spending vs. the rest of the world
by Peter Huessy “The US spends more money on defense than all the countries in the rest of the world together.” Sound familiar? Years ago, Ben Cohen of Ben and…
Reagan’s Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security (“Star Wars”)
Tonight we’re launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. by Scott L. Vanatter Just over two years as our president, Ronald Reagan concluded an…