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Stop Paying Contractors to Fail
How outcome-based contracting can fix government's broken incentives
Dec 4
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Daryl Wieland
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November 2025
Do We Need to Bring Back the Navy Department?
Arthur Herman is Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute, and author of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II…
Nov 25
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Arthur Herman
23
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Reform Without Purpose Is Just Motion
The Army needs to put doctrine ahead of requirements.
Nov 20
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Tom Balish
14
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War Footing
The Secretary of War's speech was a rallying cry. Reformers must heed it.
Nov 13
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Shyam Sankar
27
4
The Unlikely Team That Built an Ironclad and Saved the Union
A disgraced engineer, a young financier, and a risk-taking bureaucrat can teach us about defense innovation.
Nov 11
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Scarlett Swerdlow
24
4
The CDC America Needs
Built for war, the CDC has forgotten how to fight.
Nov 6
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Matthew McKnight
11
2
Modernizing Prize Courts for Letters of Marque in the United States
How an overlooked constitutional tool could help the United States respond to a changing world order.
Nov 4
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Aiden Buzzetti
13
October 2025
Hugh Dowding's Air Defense Revolution
Heretical thinking and a cutting-edge system proved the bomber won't always get through.
Oct 30
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Yoel Margolis
20
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Logistics Wins Wars. Drones Can Help.
Cargo drones can usher in an age of decentralized supply.
Oct 28
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Kevin King
20
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The Spectrum Imperative
Control of the spectrum will decide who sees, who acts, and who wins.
Oct 23
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Mark Trefgarne
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Nathan Mintz
26
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No Participation Trophies for Contractors
How to Reform CPARS into a True, Performance-Based Meritocracy
Oct 16
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Greg Little
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Brighton Timmins
13
ERPs Have Failed Our Military
Traditional software systems are structurally misaligned with modern warfare.
Oct 7
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Adyton
15
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