Defense Budget
The Pentagon Needs A Software Update—Literally
The Department of Defense now faces an increasing challenge: how to empower its personnel to make faster, more informed decisions in a world overwhelmed by data and complexity. A memo...
Budget Cuts Sank the Seawolf-class Submarine
The Seawolf’s most defining characteristic may be its price tag.
A Homeland Missile Defense Agenda for the Next President
The United States has gone to great lengths to defend Israel and Ukraine against air and missile attacks. On October 13, the Department of Defense announced plans to equip Israel...
Three Cheers for the Military Industrial Complex
As a crucial presidential election looms, with a world on fire and threats of multiple wars dotting the globe, we need to take stock of where America is and where...
Excessive Defense Spending is Counterproductive
This month, the Senate requested a 3.4 percent increase in defense spending for the 2025 fiscal year. This is an increase from the planned 1 percent increase that former House...
Can Defense Commissaries be Fixed?
In submitting the 2025 defense budget, Pentagon leadership emphasized that the top line set by the Fiscal Responsibility Act imposes a real decrease to the financial trajectory needed to modernize...
Mistake: Congress Caved to China in its Latest Defense Bill
China couldn’t have asked for a better outcome in this year’s NDAA, but the American people should demand one. Congress should fix this —quickly. Congress’s latest defense bill represents an...
The 2024 NDAA—Bipartisan Hope Amid Partisan Chaos
As the 118th Congress wraps up its first session this month, its performance in meeting its primary annual task of funding the federal government, and particularly national defense (the only...
MAGA Republicans Shouldn’t Forget About Cutting Defense
Although after the profligate fiscal policies of the Trump administration, it is difficult to take seriously that substantial spending cuts were the reason that Trump and the MAGA Republicans were...
Ten Defense Budget Questions Biden Must Answer
As President Joe Biden finalizes his defense budget for FY2024 and his defense program for FY2024–2028, he needs to address at least the following ten major. How he handles these...
Britain to Double Defense Budget in Response to Russia’s War
British defense secretary Ben Wallace announced in an interview on Sunday that the British government would boost its defense spending from roughly £50 billion ($54 billion) in 2022 to £100...
Report: High Inflation Is Disrupting U.S. Military Power
Inflation is a persistent problem and in addition to making groceries and gas more expensive, it has also been affecting the Pentagon. A new report from the National Defense Industrial...