Defense

America Is Really Bad At Foreign Interventions. Why Does Biden Think Ukraine Will Be Any Different?

America holds a long list of failed interventions based on bad intelligence: Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Panama, Haiti, Serbia, Grenada, Iran, South Vietnam, Congo, Cuba, Guatemala, Albania and the Dominican Republic, among others. It doesn’t take an intelligence genius to predict the ultimate outcome of our latest dalliance in Ukraine.

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This Boondoggle Shows Why We Must Reform The Pentagon’s Acquisition Process

You might think the largest procurement program at the Department of Defense would also be the best run. Instead, the Lightning II, also called the F-35, remains one of the biggest embarrassments at the Pentagon. The program is so crippled by cost overruns and delays that Snoopy and his doghouse seem more likely to get off the ground.

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US Navy Personnel Need To Be Refocused On A Warrior Ethos—Starting With The Basics

The past seven years haven’t made the job of being a ship commander in the Western Pacific any easier. Seventh Fleet’s area of responsibility sprawls over 36 maritime countries encompassing 50 percent of the world’s population. It faces the densest shipping environment on earth and routinely confronts China, North Korea, and Russia. Ships like the McCain keep sea lanes open and often sail, alone, under the full knowledge that thousands of Chinese anti-ship missiles like the YJ-12, YJ-18, YJ-83, DF-21, and DF-26 are trained on its every move.  

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Biden’s Two-State Solution For Israel: Michigan And Nevada

The blind religion of today’s modern American progressive deems strength immoral and whiteness a sin. Likewise industry and wealth are the products of a corrupt patriarchy, and therefore unjust. Despite the fact that 20 percent of Israelis are of Arab descent, to progressive thinking, Israel’s strength, prosperity, and whiteness make them oppressive occupiers of territory they’ve inhabited since the days of Moses. 

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