Mar 12, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
Contrary to Gregg Easterbrook, the Navy has entered a genuine crisis caused by years of dangerous underinvestment and the folly of sequestration. After peaking at nearly 568 ships in 1987, the fleet now numbers 275 ships...
Feb 19, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
Within days of President Obama releasing his fiscal 2016 defense budget this month, Pakistan tested a nuclear-capable Ra’ad short-range missile, Russia announced plans to test a new RS-26 intercontinental ballistic missile, Iran launched a satellite into space and North Korea...
Feb 18, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
WASHINGTON - House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) released the following schedule featuring (4) hearings the week of February 23-27, 2015. Witnesses are listed in alphabetical order, consistent with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee Repository.
Feb 4, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
"The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem, as they say, and Air-Sea Battle came as badly needed intervention at a critical point. It is hard to believe today that less than a decade ago, these issues did not appear on most defense policy makers’ radar as major planning considerations. But at the birth of Air-Sea Battle, “China” truly was what two U.S. Naval..."
Jan 29, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
In its first hearing of the new Congress, the House Armed Services Committee examined defense reform and discussed some of the ways that smarter spending can ensure agility and technological superiority when it comes to our military capabilities...
Jan 20, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
Washington -- Ahead of the State of the Union address, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) laid out his agenda for the Committee in the 114th Congress at the American Enterprise Institute. Additionally, the Chairman...
Jan 16, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
"PRESIDENT OBAMA’S neglect of the anti-terrorism march in Paris seemed reflective of a broader loss of momentum by his administration in combating Islamic jihadism. Five months after the president launched military operations against the Islamic State, fighting in Iraq and Syria appears..."
Jan 14, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
WASHINGTON - House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry spoke with Wolf Blitzer recently about the cyber attack on CENTCOM as well as the follow up to the terror attacks in France. "We face a flexible and adaptable enemy that is..."
Jan 12, 2015
Defense Drumbeat
"Last spring, first lady Michelle Obama held a sign that said “#BringBackOurGirls,” a response to the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria by an al-Qaeda cousin called Boko Haram. The girls are still missing. In December, members of the Pakistani Taliban murdered 132 schoolchildren and 10 staff members in Peshawar..."
Dec 8, 2014
Defense Drumbeat
The Sloppy Thinking of 'No Military Solution'
By Jackson Diehl
The Washington Post
December 7, 2014
Excerpts Below