Tag: Pentagon

Why 2021 looks so much like 1981 — and why that should scare us...

Why Pentagon weapons programs rarely get canceled despite major problems...

Focusing on the wrong threats, including a New Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

I Pence calling the shots when it comes to the Pentagon?

Will the Biden administration dare cut military spending?

If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, there are ample reasons for apprehension about the top of the military and foreign-policy team that Biden has begun to install for his presidency.

A post-coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first.

"And this is the time to jam some military procurement into this year that you didn't get last year?"

One thing is inescapable: as the disaster aboard the Theodore Roosevelt indicates, the U.S. military must reconsider how it arms and structures its forces and give serious thought to alternative models of organization.

"If there was ever a time to fundamentally change our national priorities, now is that time."