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…
Russian Strategic Bombers Conduct More Than 16 Incursions of U.S. Air Defense Zones
‘Spike’ in Bear H flights over past week seen as test of U.S. air defenses by Bill Gertz • Washington Free Beacon Russian strategic nuclear bombers…
NATO After Ukraine: Military Modernization in Europe
by Peter Huessy NATO faces a challenge to modernize and sustain its nuclear posture and missile defense deployments in Europe at a time of declining defense budgets on the one…
The Diplomacy of Missile Defense
by Peter Huessy The long thirty one year debate over missile defenses for the United States begun with the President Reagan announcement of the strategic defense initiative in March 1983…
Missile Defense Agency Successfully Destroys Target in Flight with Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System
June 27, 2014, Washington, D.C. – On June 22nd, the Missile Defense Agency and a high tech industry team that designed and built the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system conducted a…
Russia Test Fires Six New Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
Putin orders military exercises amid new Ukraine tensions by Bill Gertz Russian strategic air forces fired six new, precision-strike cruise missiles in test launches Friday amid new tensions between Moscow…
The Missile Defense Deniers
by Peter Huessy On Sunday June 22, high over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing, the Joint Functional Component Command,…
Pros and Cons of Drone Strikes in Iraq
by Patrick Tucker On Friday, President Barack Obama ruled out sending U.S. troops back into Iraq to fight the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, or ISIS, fighters as they take…
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 –…
Providing for the Common Defense
by Peter Huessy Forty-three years ago, on Memorial Day 1971, I was traveling home to Vermont following two years of study at the International Division of Yonsei University in Seoul…
ASP’s Nuclear Fairy Tales and Misconceptions
by Peter Huessy Despite the fact that our Triad of forces has been a nuclear umbrella that has kept the nuclear powers from going to war against each other for…
Will Obama ground America’s top tank-killer?
Cutting the functional and economical A-10 would be a mistake by George Landrith Budget cutters are rumored to have their eyes on the A-10 Thunderbolt, thinking that retiring it may…
Even the Hapless Jimmy Carter Wasn’t This Bad
by Jack Kelly Leaders of other countries don’t respect President Barack Obama, said 53 percent of respondents in Gallup’s annual World Affairs poll, conducted Feb. 3-6. That only 53 percent…
Ronald Reagan, “You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.”
Ronald Reagan said to conservatives, “You’re the troops. You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.” A young soldier stands guard in the cold, looking out over no-man’s-land through to…
The Iran Enigma
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi History, in her disposition toward intellectually gifted peoples and nations, appears as fickle as the gods of ancient times were wont to be of…