James Hasik
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Before Tallinn Burns
The Third Offset must address NATO’s local numerical inferiorities. As Inside Defense reported earlier this month, current events have the US Army questioning its organization , wondering if it’s otherwise destined to be perennially late to the... → Read More
A Full-Contact Sport
Transferring military technology takes time, teams, and money—for now. Technology transfer and national security—everyone talks about it, and most everyone needs it. This week the Atlantic Council hosted a discussion with some European diplomats on... → Read More
Farkas and Hasik Quoted by Bloomberg on US Military Reinforcements to NATO Against Russia
The Atlantic Council promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic Community in meeting global challenges. Founded in 1961, the Council provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic shifts in economic and political influence that are shaping the twenty-first century by educating and galvanizing its uniquely… → Read More
The Defense Economics of John McCain, Part 2
How more of “Economics 101” would slowly restructure the US armed forces Senator John McCain has a penchant for what the late Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live might have called Simple Caveman Economics . As I review the pronouncements from his... → Read More
Hasik Quoted by Dow Jones Business Journal on Jet Trainer Designs
The Atlantic Council promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic Community in meeting global challenges. Founded in 1961, the Council provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic shifts in economic and political influence that are shaping the twenty-first century by educating and galvanizing its uniquely… → Read More
Hasik Quoted by Wall Street Journal on Raytheon's Partnership with Foreign Aerospace Companies
The Atlantic Council promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic Community in meeting global challenges. Founded in 1961, the Council provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic shifts in economic and political influence that are shaping the twenty-first century by educating and galvanizing its uniquely… → Read More
End Draft Registration
Rather than mandating that women register, just terminate that useless practice. Should women be registered for the draft? Now that Defense Secretary Carter has removed the exclusion of women from all combat jobs, the Army chief of staff, the... → Read More
Kein Roboterkrieg!
iRobot’s sale of its defense division to Arlington Capital indicates that commercial markets will drive innovation in autonomy. On Politico’s Morning Defense today, Jeremy Herb asked some think-tankers what to look for in today’s budget release.... → Read More
Options Unconsidered
Which is the question—should carrier drones be tankers, or should tankers just be seaplanes? Turning the US Navy’s next carrier-based drone into a tanker , as the service announced this week, is probably a reasonable idea. For some time,... → Read More
Newer Aircraft, Bigger Bills
In the USAF, mission-capable rates are not a matter of age or scale efficiencies. In Air Force Times this week, \n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. pulled some descriptive statistics from... → Read More
Recombinant Lethality
What the military departments can learn from SORDAC Yesterday evening, the Atlantic Council hosted James “Hondo” Guerts, chief of the US Special Operations Research, Development and Acquisition Center (SORDAC), for a speech and discussion about... → Read More
Four questions for the Marine Corps
Does the future find need for fewer troops, on more ships, in more units, and more focused on small wars? In October 1957, Commandant of the Marine Corps General Randolph Pate sent Lieutenant General Victor Krulak a brief memo with a simple... → Read More
Will the Bomber Always Get Through?
The long-term survivability of the LRS-B is a known unknowable. Will the US Air Force’s new stealth bomber be sufficiently survivable? Naive calculations sometimes presume, to quote Stanley Baldwin’s 1932 speech in the House of Commons, that “the... → Read More
Why We Need Those Little Crappy Ships
Ash Carter’s emphasis on aircraft and quality over ships-in-quantity may be the wrong call on technology and strategy. Defense Secretary Ash Carter just told the Navy to spend less money on ships and more on jets . In a memorandum this week, he... → Read More
Artificial Strategy
Are even the computers smart enough for the gray zones? General Joseph Votel, head of US Special Operations Command, is worried about “gray zones.” As he told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities back in March,... → Read More
Is the LRS-B Urgently Needed?
The new bomber isn’t coming soon, but some stopgaps should be. Seven years ago, Robert Haffa and Michael Isherwood of Northrop Grumman’s Analysis Center argued that the US Air Force urgently needed a new bomber —indeed, by 2018. Enemy missiles,... → Read More
“Not hesitant to use this power for corporate advantage”
Just how politically problematic is concentration in the defense industry? Back in September, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's procurement chief, took the trouble to make a rather forceful on-the-record statement about... → Read More
Bayonets, Pistols, and JLTVs
What three recent cases tell us about relative burdens in military procurement. Just the other day, I noted how outgoing Air Force procurement chief Bill LaPlante has been insisting that the Pentagon’s business of buying weapons has been improving... → Read More
“We used to suck, and now we don’t suck as much.”
Testing Bill LaPlante's hypothesis of improving military acquisition The Lexington Institute’s Dan Gouré says that the much-ballyhooed Third Offset “ will fail unless it first defeats the DoD's acquisition system .” The department has again missed... → Read More
Planes or train?
Just “how can Canada best” contribute to the fight in Iraq and Syria? The Americans are bombing. The French are now bombing by the score. The British are slinging Brimstone. The Canadians will train the Peshmerga . That’s right—making good on a... → Read More