I wanted to highlight some economic data out of China. Why? Because as an influential part of the international security brain trust in Washington focuses anew on China (see AirSea Battle), it’s important to keep in mind that competition at the grand strategic level is not simply a matter of bean counting military hardware and […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2010
I wrote up an interview I did last week with Col. Bryan McVeigh, program manager for the Army’s new Ground Combat Vehicle program on companion site DOD Buzz and wanted to post it here for DT readers. I asked McVeigh why the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) request for proposal was held […]
By Kevin Coleman Defense Tech Chief Cyber War Correspondent If you read recent comments by White House Cyber Security Coordinator Howard Schmidt, that’s the conclusion you might draw. The web posting titled “Howard Schmidt Dismisses Cyber War Fears” has left many asking — does the left hand know what the right hand is saying? Troubling […]
Big news week for the F-35. As my colleague Colin Clark reported over at DOD Buzz, Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale came out and said the obvious: “If there is cost growth, I think we will just have to reduce the buy.” Hale made those comments at this week’s annual Precision Strike Conference. Will there be […]
My colleague Christian Lowe over at Kit Up reached out to Maj. Tom Ehrhart, the author of the paper on infantry small arms in Afghanistan we’ve been discussing on the site and that has been creating a lot of buzz in Army and special ops circles. Ehrhart, who is over in Iraq, was good enough […]
