by Editorial Staff | Aug 14, 2012 | Alliances, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Legal, Russia, UAVs
* At a panel hosted by the Center for the National Interest, Grover Norquist argued against any tax increases to sustain what he views as an excessively interventionist foreign policy. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, got many Republican congressmen to...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 10, 2012 | Canada, China, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Cyber-Security, Japan, Legal, UAVs, USA
* Commander of US Fleet Forces Admiral J. C. Harvey, Jr. thinks that actions undertaken to reverse a trend [PDF] of degrading fleet readiness are starting to pay off. Challenges remain though, including Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), a mission that is “complex...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 9, 2012 | Alliances, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Think Tanks, USA
* When you scrub the Pentagon’s budget hard enough, you find money that was not spent and can either be de-obligated, reallocated through rescissions, or has to be returned to the Treasury (in the case of expired accounts [PDF]). This happens on the margins of...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 7, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, Legal, Materials Innovations, UAVs, USA
* The White House picked Rear Admiral James Syring to replace Army Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly as the head of the Missile Defense Agency. A few weeks ago a report from the Pentagon’s inspector general described O’Reilly as an irascible...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 6, 2012 | Asia - Central, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Logistics Innovations, Middle East - Other, Russia, UAVs, USA, UUVs & USVs
* India’s Ministry of Defence announced last week that it was easing offset rules, confirming earlier reports that Transfer of technology (ToT) would be made eligible for offsets. The policy is effective since August 1 and a new office – the Defense Offset...
