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In 30 years, the Pentagon went from a defense industry it considered too large to sustain, to one now too small to surge.

Here’s a question: If you could add $200 billion to the defense budget — or wave a magic wand and pass every needed reform to defense procurement,

U.S. defense planning has long been undergirded by a sense of technological optimism. This is nowhere more evident than in official statements concerning

In the early 2000s, the U.S. military focused on becoming a more lighter, agile, and lethal force. This meant creating new vehicles like the armored Stryker.

Russia and China have studied the US Army's tanks, and they're fielding new weapons that present more potent threats to US armor.

But you can count on one thing: the new approach is likely to be a gold mine for weapons contractors, even if the resulting weaponry doesn’t faintly perform as advertised. When such advanced weapons systems can be made to work, at enormous cost in time and money, they almost invariably prove of limited value, even…

( Tomdispatch.com) - On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized …

Uh… gulp… you thought it was bad when that experienced pilot ejected from one of the Air Force’s hottest “new” planes, the F-35 combat fighter, near — no, - William D. Hartung for Antiwar.com Original

On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial

The quest for decisive U.S. military superiority over Beijing and the ability to win a war against a nuclear-armed power should be considered a fool’s errand, writes William D. Hartung. But it isn’t. By William D. Hartung TomDispatch.com On Aug. 28, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H