Category: Emerging Defense Challenges

Wall Street Journal Features Ghost Fleet

By August Cole

The Wall Street Journal features Ghost Fleet, cowritten by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole, in a discussion on the advances of cyber warfare and a vision of the hypothetical World War III:

Selling Sikorsky—updated

By James Hasik

A Bell-Sikorsky combination could be too big for the Pentagon to handle. Bidding for Sikorsky, Reuters reports, rests now with Lockheed Martin and Textron. As noted here a few weeks ago, the tax implications remain daunting for United Technologies, particularly now that Textron’s proposed Reverse Morris Trust has elicited no interest. Spinoff does remain in […]

Cole: The Reality of Cyberwar

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for Politico about why World War III would be unlike any other conflict:

How Will World War III be Fought?

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Tuesday, July 7, the Atlantic Council hosted a panel continuing the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s series, Art of Future Warfare. The panel entitled “How to Write and Fight World War III” surrounded the newly released book Ghost Fleet and its implications in predicting a future great war. The panelists include coauthors Peter […]

How to Write and Fight World War III

Please join the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare project on July 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for a discussion on what a major state conflict would look like in the twenty-first century. How would warfare be conducted in the new domains of low-earth orbit and cyber space?  What new technologies, old rules, and […]

How M&A is Remaking Aerospace & Defense

By Steven Grundman

The emerging wave of consolidation is yielding more diverse competitive dynamics than emerged from the post-Cold-War restructuring. Five years beyond the inflection marked by the Great Recession’s bottom and Iraq War’s end, the market for mergers and acquisitions in aerospace and defense is finally heating up and taking shape. At this halfway point through 2015, […]

Cole: How to Write About World War III

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for The Atlantic about his new novel Ghost Fleet and what a great power conflict would look like in the twenty-first century:

Cole: This Is What World War III Will Look Like

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for TIME on how his new novel, Ghost Fleet, portrays a hypothetical World War where an array of science-fiction-like technologies would likely make their debut:

Cases, Cables, and Kernels

By James Hasik

A role is emerging for small firms that connect defense to commercial technologies. On his recent pilgrimage to Silicon Valley, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter tried hard to stoke enthusiasm amongst commercial software firms for working with the Pentagon. So far, they’re not buying the pitch. To start, they’re just not interested in ten percent […]

‘Ghost Fleet’ Featured in RealClearDefense

By August Cole

RealClearDefense features Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War coauthored by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole: