Micro-partnerships between U.S. and Australian firms can enable the pooling of capabilities, increased flexibility, tech transfer, access to expertise and knowledge and guided access to Australia’s growing defense market.
It is more stabilizing and better for national security that Congress is skeptical about where U.S. space leadership and space policy are headed. Let’s hope the responsible oversight demonstrated in the annual defense bill continues.
There is a big mismatch between the Biden administration’s new National Defense Strategy and its push for forces to be equipped for global campaigning and the current projections for the U.S. Navy. The conventional manned fleet, the combat logistics force and the developing unmanned side of the Navy all need additional support to meet the NDS’s campaigning requirements.
To maintain its status as a global superpower, the United States cannot afford to fall any further behind in our hypersonic military systems.
The sea services and wider Biden administration ought to take a page out of our international peers’ and rivals’ books.
It’s time to scrap the U.S. armed forces. If you just spewed your Cheerios across the breakfast table, I should clarify. I’m not suggesting we abandon the military, beat our swords into ploughshares and become pacifists. But it’s time to overhaul how the nation organizes the military services by unifying the service departments into one warfighting component — the United States Defense Forces.
