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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller	An Appeal for New Emphasis on Antisubmarine Warfare With the growing submarine threat from often undetermined adversaries, let's hope a renewed emphasis on antisubmarine warfare (ASW) technology isn't too little, too late.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John Keller	Submarine Threat Heats up in the Middle East The Israeli navy's purchase of two more sophisticated attack submarines, which experts say are capable of firing nuclear-tipped cruise missiles that can hit targets in Iran, highlights an emerging and dangerous submarine arms race in and around the Middle East.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	China's Defense Build-up Merits Closer Attention From Navy, Say Analysts China has been beefing up its military might, and the rapid growth of its navy, in particular, is creating disagreements in the Defense Department over whether such a build-up ought to be perceived as a threat to U.S. interests in the Pacific.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	China's Navy Takes Great Leap Forward China's navy is growing, analysts said. And it's not only the number of ships increasing. Modernization of its fleets is going hand in hand with new types of vessels including the stated goal of building indigenous aircraft carriers.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Thomas M. Kane	Dragon or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons in a Modernizing China Analysts of contemporary Chinese foreign policy often dismiss the nuclear arsenal of the People's Republic of China as insignificant in size and passively defensive in purpose. This article argues that Beijing has long-term aspirations to improve its position in world politics, and that nuclear weapons play a fundamental role in its plans.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller	The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future?
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Navy Faces Expanded Mission Portfolio, Declining Resources In preparation for future shifts in military priorities and resources, Navy officials have gone to great lengths to spell out their vision for the service's roles in protecting U.S. interests and bolstering global security.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Stan Crock	Taiwan: Uncle Sam Wants You To Buy Arms The complex diplomatic dance involving Washington, Taipei, and Beijing gets trickier by the day. The tension will rise this fall when Taiwan's legislature votes on arms-purchase legislation.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell	Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp	Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
National Defense August 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture.
National Defense November 2012 Dan Parsons	U.S. Pacific Shift Aims to Manage, Not Challenge China's Rise Defense Department leaders are set to manage a strategic "shift" or "pivot" that has been in works for a while, but will accelerate once U.S. troops leave Afghanistan in 2014.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	China Taking Steps to Make Aircraft Carrier Fully Operational The carriers are part of a master plan to transform the nation from a "continental power" to a "maritime power," experts at a recent Heritage Foundation discussion said.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Navy Working on 'Sci-Fi' Weapons The Navy's research-and-development dollars are going toward systems that will help the service stay ahead of advanced weaponry being developed by China and other potential adversaries.
National Defense March 2014 Sharp & Thurman	U.S. Military Needs Improved Missile Defense Technology The United States is confronting threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles that can potentially overwhelm the Defense Department's legacy air and missile defense systems.
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel	Carrier Debate Rages in Face Of New Threats The super carrier has been a symbol of U.S. power around the globe for decades, but increasing costs and other factors have critics questioning the need for so many of the giant warships.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John Keller	Defense budgets headed down, no matter who's in the White House In fact, fuel prices should have a much broader influence on defense spending over the next several years than who's resident in the White House.
Popular Mechanics August 28, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	5 Reasons the U.S. Navy's Scared (and What They're Doing About It) It's a well-known rule of thumb in military circles: protection from the things that scare the Pentagon receive R&D money.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John Keller	DOD to cut unmanned aerial vehicle procurement by one third over next decade The early years of the 21st century have seen explosive growth in U.S. Department of Defense purchases of unmanned aerial vehicles, but DOD is expected to cut UAV procurement by one-third over the next decade.
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons	In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Threats To Aircraft Carriers Bolster Case for Unmanned Combat Jets The dominance of U.S. aircraft carriers, however, could be one day challenged if future enemies arm themselves with accurate, long-range missiles.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Noah Shachtman	Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?
National Defense May 2009 Stew Magnuson	Iranian Threat Spurs Gulf Nations to Upgrade Defenses When it comes to air-and-missile defense, the United Arab Emirates is sparing no expense to guard the nation against a looming Iranian threat. And it has the cash to do so.
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer	When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is...
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer	Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail?
Popular Mechanics July 9, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	As Iran Tests Missile Fleet, Experts Map High-Tech Israeli Attack Iran announced that it had tested nine ballistic missiles, but the country's stockpile of U.S.-built I-HAWK missiles would pose the biggest threat as anti-aircraft weapons in defending against a potential attack on its nuclear facilities.
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 C. A. Fowler	Asymmetric Warfare: A Primer The armed forces of United States are the most capable military ever assembled. Are they designed, however, to handle a determined insurgency? Here's a look using famous engineer Frederick W. Lanchester's Mathematics in Warfare as a guide.
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy	Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles.
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget.
National Defense September 2004 Harold Kennedy	Costs, Delays Surface Again for New Attack Submarines Just a year after U.S. Navy officials assured Congress that they had taken steps to stem rising costs and production delays for the newest family of nuclear-powered attack submarines, they now concede that problems may not have gone away.
Parameters Summer 2005 R. D. Hooker	Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Michael Lind	A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony lacks public support, but its critics have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security.
National Defense April 2006 Harold Kennedy	Special Ops Sub Becomes Hub for Irregular Warfare Subs have hosted small numbers of special operators ever since World War II. Until now, however, the vessels have had space to accommodate only a handful of special operators. That is changing with the Ohio (SSGN 726) and its three sister ships.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Navy Ship Numbers for Asia-Pacific Shift Don't Add Up The Defense Department's strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region has gone hand in hand with a budget crunch, which in turn may test the Navy's ability to maintain a sufficient number of ships to carry out a global mission, analysts said.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense October 2014 Marvin Baker Schaffer	Time to Revive Debate About Space-Based Missile Defense Boost phase missile defense is necessary to reliably and cost-effectively defeat the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile threats, those of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Bases at Sea: No Longer Unthinkable Staging a military campaign the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom entirely from ships at sea---with no access to land bases---would seem inconceivable to most defense planners. Nonetheless, the notion is gaining momentum at the Pentagon.
Popular Mechanics November 8, 2006 Noah Shachtman	Rumsfeld Reaction: 4 Policy Battles That Could Shape Our Military When President Bush appointed former CIA Director Robert Gates to the Defense Secretary post today, several of Donald Rumsfeld's pet projects began to enter the political crossfire.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Rhea	New terrorist challenge: North Korea It's a challenge the United States can ill afford to ignore. North Korea's WMDs are not illusory. Moreover, its missiles make Saddam Hussein's look puny by comparison.
National Defense September 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Program Terminations Invariably Have Unintended Consequences One of the most controversial decisions was to end the F-22 fighter program at 187 aircraft. Some pundits, defense intellectuals and even government officials have contended that the F-22 is a Cold War weapon that is not needed for today's world.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	What President Reagan Meant to the Military The passing of former President Ronald Reagan and the solemn ceremonies marking the event are pivotal milestones in our nation's recent history -- particularly for the U.S. military forces.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses.
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Diesel-Electric Submarines, the U.S. Navy's Latest Annoyance Nations in the western Pacific have begun to acquire stealthy diesel-electric submarines, which could one day threaten U.S. access to strategic coastal areas of the world or interrupt the flow of commerce around the globe.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Spending Will Target Current and Future Navy Fleet The Navy should direct its future science, research and technology spending to both improving the current fleet and designing next-generation systems, officials say.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 John Keller	Dangerous Times Call for a Strong Military A continued strong U.S. military is our best chance of ensuring continued national prosperity.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet	Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems.