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Defense Industrialist

Aug 22, 2016

On cash

By James Hasik

The Pentagon’s billion-dollar cash advance to Lockheed Martin is just a cost of doing business in a trillion-dollar program. Lockheed Martin’s billion-dollar cash advance is by now big news—or not so big news against the backdrop of a bigger program. As Defense News and others reported over a week ago, the Pentagon recently sent its […]

Defense Industry
Economy & Business
NATO missile defense facility in Deveselu, Romania

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2016

NATO Takes Command of Missile Defense Facility in Romania

By Allied Air Command, NATO

Today a new milestone in the development of NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) has been reached.

Central Europe
Germany

Defense Industrialist

Aug 19, 2016

The mutually assured destruction of the Airbus-Boeing rivalry

By James Hasik

The ongoing sagas of the KC-46 and A400M are a reminder of how military-industrial hubris is bad for both business and government. On Breaking Defense this morning, Colin Clark notes that Boeing has just won “$2.8 billion for KC-46 tanker low rate production.” That’s good news. As multiple reporters have written this year, the company has […]

Defense Industry
Economy & Business
Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, August 4, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 19, 2016

UK Party Leader Joins Trump and Others in Questioning Commitment to NATO Allies

By Henry Mance, Financial Times

Jeremy Corbyn has become the latest politician to cast doubt on the future of Nato, in a move that critics say could embolden Russia in its approach to eastern Europe.

NATO
Russia

Defense Industrialist

Aug 18, 2016

Supplier of the year, or big supplier of the year?

By James Hasik

The Pentagon’s “Superior Supplier” rankings need an overhaul For Inside Defense, Jason Sherman wrote three articles at the beginning of the month about the “Superior Supplier” rankings at the Army, Navy, and Air Force Departments. The assessments are undertaken “on a contract-by-contract basis” by individuals acquiring the actual goods and services, and thus “reflect customer […]

Defense Industry
Entrepreneurship

In the News

Aug 18, 2016

Brzezinski Interviewed by Defence Matters on What Would Make the Warsaw Summit a Success

By Ian Brzezinski

Read the full article here.

NATO
Security & Defense
NATO VJTF exercise, June 18, 2015

NATOSource

Aug 18, 2016

NATO Is America’s Greatest Strategic Advantage

By Hannes Hanso, Wall Street Journal

Debates about NATO’s role and burden-sharing have been around since its founding. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s sharp criticisms of the Western Alliance are just the latest flare-up.

NATO
Northern Europe
Danish fighter jet, Sept. 20, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 17, 2016

NATO Can Do More to Destroy Islamic State—If We Ask

By Dianne Feinstein, Wall Street Journal

Only a quarter of the alliance is attacking ISIS. Invoke the treaty’s defense clause to expand the effort.

International Organizations
Iraq

Defense Industrialist

Aug 17, 2016

On battlecruisers, blockades, and Donald Trump

By James Hasik

Whatever administration takes office, the US needs to better match its procurement plans to its operational strategies. Writing this week for Chatham House, Julianne Smith, Rachel Rizzo and Adam Twardowski find that one military topic on which Donald Trump may offer views significantly differing from those of the other presidential candidates is procurement. In their […]

China
Conflict

In the News

Aug 16, 2016

Benitez Quoted by Politifact on Trump’s NATO Statements

By Jorge Benitez

Read the full article here.

NATO
Security & Defense

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