Last week I read the alarming headlines. West Point cadets will no longer be inculcated with and committed to the values of “Duty, Honor, Country,” the motto of the United States Military Academy since the end of the 19th Century….
The Yemeni-based Houthi rebel attacks on global commerce and trade finally produced a response from the Biden administration (and the United Kingdom) in the form of targeted air strikes on Houthi military facilities, such as “command and control nodes, munitions,…
A Congressional Research Service report (RL30563, issued May 2, 2022) tallies the total F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program at 2,456 aircraft. Including development costs, this works out to $2.4 trillion, the largest defense aircraft procurement ever. From the…
American optimism and protectionist interest groups have the nation’s icebreaker fleet frozen in place as a Mississippi production plant relearns how to produce the hardened steel necessary to protect icebreakers from the hostile environs in which they’ll operate. William Mauldin…
September is suicide-prevention month — an appropriate time to reflect on the tragedy of veteran suicides. You’ve likely heard that “22 veterans die each day by suicide.” But in 2019, that number suddenly dropped to 17 daily, according to the…
China has provocatively added a 10th “dash” to its map of the South China Sea, and this dash extends around Taiwan. The public release of the new 10-dash map has angered China’s neighbors, including the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Brunei,…
Two separate espionage cases have been opened in California this week, each indicting a sailor for passing military secrets to the People’s Republic of China. The first case alleges that Jinchao Wei sent national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials…
The military has a recruiting problem the likes of which it hasn’t experienced in 50 years. For reasons domestic — a public that perceives its fighting forces to be focused on social engineering and progressive signaling while entry-level jobs abound…
Lately, military-age males have stayed away from the military in droves. General officers and senior civilians in the Pentagon blame a poor public education system and decades of video games for creating a generation of young men not mentally and…
