Andrew Krepinevich, distinguished senior fellow and former president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discusses his new report — Preserving the Balance – A US Eurasia Defense Strategy — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Read the Report – In “Getting Defense Acquisition Right,” Frank Kendall, the Obama administration’s under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, discusses how to improve the defense acquisition.
Roger Sexauer, executive vice president for business development at DRS Technologies, discusses naval lasers, guns, propulsion and power systems with Defense & Aerospace Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Surface Navy Associations’ 2017 symposium and tradeshow in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 10-12, 2017. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of SNA is sponsored by Raytheon.
Preserving the Balance: A Eurasia Defense Strategy by Andrew Krepinevich, distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, focuses on the United States’ long-standing interest in preventing the rise of a hegemonic power on the Eurasian land mass capable of dominating its human, technical and material resources. Such a development would represent a major threat to U.S. national security. With this core interest in mind, the strategy presented in this paper calls for major changes in the U.S. defense posture. Among them: shifting to more of a forward defense posture; according top priority, in deed as well as word, to the Western Pacific Theater; taking on greater risk in the European and Middle East theaters than has been the case since the Cold War’s end; developing a competency in the ability to compete based on time; emphasizing new concepts of operation and a different division of labor between the United States and its allies; and last, but far from least, according high priority to the social dimension of strategy, to include developing and advancing persuasive strategic narratives to the American people, the citizens of allies and prospective strategic partners, and the revisionist powers’ populations. This paper is the first in a series of papers that CSBA will be releasing in coming weeks. Upcoming reports will include strategies tailored to Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
John Perry, director of business development for weapons systems at BAE Systems, discusses automated ammunition handling for naval guns, new projectiles and electromagnetic cannons with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Surface Navy Association’s 2017 symposium and tradeshow in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 10-12, 2017. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of SNA is sponsored by Raytheon.
R. Scott Forney, president of General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group, discusses the company’s electromagnetic catapults and arresting gear for the US Navy’s new Ford-class aircraft carriers, electric propulsion and rail guns with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted during the Surface Navy Association’s 2017 symposium and tradeshow in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 10-12, 2017. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of SNA was sponsored by Raytheon.
Capt. Howard Markle, USN, commander of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, discusses reducing backlog on warship maintenance with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted last month at the Puget Sound Naval Museum in Bremerton, Wash.
Mike Yeagley, vice president for global defense at PlanetRisk, discusses the company’s open-source data software tools for prediction and analysis including tracking individuals worldwide with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at NATO Allied Command Transformation’s Chiefs of Transformation Conference in December 2016.
The “Non-State Strategy for Saving Cyberspace,” by Jason Healey, nonresident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, starts with the clear goal: a sustainable cyberspace so that the Internet and connected technologies will at least as free, open and secure for our kids and grandkids as it is for us. In cybersecurity, the way to do this is to try to shift the balance so defenders have the advantage over attackers. To do this, the lever must be placed not in government, but in the private sector which has the agility, subject matter expertise, and ability to directly change cyberspace in ways the government cannot.
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle East Security Program today released a new report by United States Central Command Commander General Joseph L. Votel and a number of contributing authors, “#Virtual Caliphate: Defeating ISIL on the Battlefield Is Not Enough.” In the report, Gen. Votel makes the case that even after it loses its territory, ISIL will still retain a virtual safe haven, and that it is critical to pursue a long-term strategy to defeat ISIL online, as well as on the physical battlefield.