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Defense Industrialist

May 5, 2017

Must go faster

By James Hasik

The Army, Navy, and Air Force Departments all seem to be talking up new ideas for fast-moving weapons. So does the Pentagon need to be putting more money there? Does any other defense ministry? Perhaps, but sometimes necessity is truncated by feasibility. For with hypersonics, the tactical advantages are great, but so are the technical challenges.

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May 3, 2017

NATO’s Military Commander Concerned About Russia’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe

By Curtis M. Scaparrotti, Senate Appropriations Committee

[T]oday we face the most dynamic European security environment in history.

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May 2, 2017

Trump Again Raises NATO Defense Spending in Speech on Domestic Agenda

By Donald Trump, White House/Google Cache Version

Our government rushed to join international agreements where the United States pays the costs and bears the burdens, while other countries get the benefit and pay nothing

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May 1, 2017

NATO Considers New Counterterrorism Post Following Trump Demands

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is considering appointing a senior official to oversee counterterrorism efforts

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Defense Industrialist

Apr 28, 2017

Evolution and the occasional über-gizmo

By James Hasik

Thoughts on corporate strategies in the military aircraft industry  Last week, I provided a guest lecture at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, that graduate college of the National Defense University formerly known as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. The school was founded in 1924 as the Army Industrial College, on a […]

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Apr 26, 2017

Responding to Russia’s ‘Hybrid’ Threat

By Franklin D. Kramer and Lauren M. Speranza, U.S. News and World Report

Since its takeover of Crimea in 2014, Russia has become increasingly emboldened

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Apr 24, 2017

Denmark: Russia Hacked Our Defense Ministry for Two Years

By Reuters and Copenhagen Post

From Reuters: Russia has hacked the Danish Defense and gained access to employees’ emails in 2015 and 2016

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Apr 24, 2017

Trump Believes ‘Nobody Ever Criticized NATO’

By Donald Trump, AP

TRUMP: They had a quote from me that NATO’s obsolete. But they didn’t say why it was obsolete.

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Apr 21, 2017

Trump Praises Italy’s Fight Against Terrorism And Pushes Gentiloni on Defense Spending

By Donald Trump, Paolo Gentiloni, and John Roberts, White House

PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Italy is also a key partner in the fight against terrorism.

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Defense Industrialist

Apr 21, 2017

An excess of buying and hiring American

By James Hasik

There are, of course, very valid strategic reasons for the United States to retain some degree of autarky in its armaments production. But if the engineers, logisticians, marketers, and financiers are coming to the United States, to work in the United States on long-term visas, building armaments for the American military, aren’t they then Americans?

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