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Remember the Future Combat System (FCS)? This was a complex “system-of-systems” which involved manned and unmanned ground and aerial vehicles,...

In the late 1990s, defense hawks and doves were involved in an intense debate over missile defense. The Clinton Administration...

It takes a crisis to concentrate the mind. Faced with unusually bellicose rhetoric from the regime in Pyongyang, the Obama...

Army planners are rethinking how their service will acquire 700 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters over the next 14 years in...

It is generally agreed that the additional cuts to the defense budget required by sequestration will do more than just...

Beggars can't be choosers. When a government accumulates trillion-dollar deficits year after year, eventually there is a day of reckoning....

The United States has enjoyed global air dominance for many decades. No U.S. soldier on the ground has been killed...

With the sequestration doomsday clock clicking ever closer to midnight, the Pentagon has weighed in with its apocalyptic predictions. As...

There is no question that the United States has the best military in the world. The United States is unique...

The U.S. military faces two fundamental challenges. The first is the need to downsize in the face of increasing budgetary...