Navy Winner in $50B AEI Budget Drill, Army Comes Up Short
The Navy was the big winner when teams of national security experts were tasked with finding and reallocating $50 billion…
CENTCOM Commander: U.S. ‘Completely Focused’ on Responsible Afghanistan Withdrawal
U.S. Central Command’s top officer stressed today that the military is “completely focused” on responsibly withdrawing from Afghanistan by Sept.…
Cotton Calls for a $26B Uptick in Planned Defense Supplemental
A member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committee is calling for a $26 billion addition to this year’s…
House Foreign Affairs Chair Royce Critical of U.S. Policy Toward Iran
The perception among American Middle Eastern allies and partners is that “we have tilted to Iran” since concluding the nuclear…
Panel: U.S. Needs to Rethink Strategy to Defeat Radical Islam
Fourteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center the U.S. still…
Sen. Gardner: Administration Unwilling to ‘Name Names’ in Cyber Security Breaches
“The administration will not name names” when it comes to serious breaches of cybersecurity in the government’s own data files…
Panel Tells HASC Fight Against ISIS Will be Long, Could Require Larger U.S. Presence
While putting combat brigades into the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) is not…
Panel: Russia Long Term Economic, Political Outlook is Bleak
Russia is in a period of slow deterioration — economically and politically — with a regime that has neither a…
AEI Panel: U.S. Should Do More to Quell Sectarian Divide in Iraq
“No one is advocating re-invading Iraq” or sending the United States down “a slippery slope to have 200,000 troops in…
Think Tank Panel Tells House U.S. Military Faces More Challenges, Suggests Pentagon Spending Reforms
When a quartet of defense budget experts was asked how it would spend the Pentagon’s money now versus last year,…