American power and prosperity are destined to decline unless Washington can reverse the decline of U.S. manufacturing capacity and the toxic effects of
One of the primary tensions within DoD’s efforts to raise the cybersecurity bar for its defense contractors is doing it in way that doesn’t further erode the military’s base of small business innovators. And yet, the current bottom up approach by most hackers makes small businesses a primary threat to federal security efforts.
The Case for EU Defense
A New Way Forward for Trans-Atlantic Security Relations
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The Dutch warship used by the EU Naval Force is pictured at the French military base in Djibouti in May 2015.
Sam Hananel
The state of European defense is not strong.
The level of Europe’s defense spending and the size of its collective forces in uniform should make it a global power with one of the strongest militaries in the world. But Europe does not act as one on defense, even though it formed a political union almost 30 years ago. Europe’s military strength today is far weaker than the sum of its parts. This is not just a European failure; it is also fundamentally a failure of America’s post-Cold War strategy toward Europe a strategy that remains virtually unchanged since the 1990s.
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Thomas W. Spoehr conducts and supervises research on national defense matters. If we lose elements of the defense industry to the coronavirus, that could have devastating implications with our national security. Xinhua News Agency / Contributor / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Some of those suppliers had operated on the edge of solvency, harmed by defense cuts, the dwindling manufacturing base, and cheap overseas labor.
Protecting the defense industrial base from the effects of the coronavirus is a wise and legitimate investment in the national security of the United States.
Lawmakers best serve the country when they take a broad view of our needs and act accordingly, even in the midst of an election year.