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The President Orders a Defense Reformation
On Wednesday, while everyone was watching the stock market, President Trump issued an executive order that announced the beginning of a different…
 • Shyam Sankar
The Last Supper: Where Traditional System Integrators Ate and Missions Starved
Government SIs are Having their Blockbuster to Netflix Moment
 • Greg Little
The Need for Speed
Speed has a quality all its own
 • Shyam Sankar, Madeline Hart, and Greg Little
The Army Is ‘Transforming in Contact.’ Here’s How.
We are putting soldiers and their needs at the forefront—not requirements.
 • Alex Miller
Closing the Shipbuilding Gap: Lessons from Henry Kaiser, Part I
The most effective approach might be to reinvent the entire enterprise.
 • Arthur Herman
Time to Blow Up JCIDS
Today's jointness-industrial complex actively harms our national security
 • Shyam Sankar, Madeline Hart, and Greg Little
New Dimensions of Strategic Depth
Updating an old concept for an age of satellites and small drones.
 • Nadia Schadlow
Break the Department of Defense’s Acquisition Monopsony
For a long time, Walmart was a monopsony.
 • Shyam Sankar, Madeline Hart, and Greg Little
Principles for the Revolution in Attritable Mass
The late Pentagon strategist Andy Marshall once remarked that technology makes a military revolution possible, but it is not a sufficient condition to…
 • Matthew Steckman and Eliot Pence
Winter Is Coming: The Pentagon’s Game of Thrones
The great houses of defense must unite to defeat the White Walkers of modern warfare.
 • Greg Little
From Cost Plus to Cost Minus
A Contract Model That Aligns Vendors With Taxpayers—Not Timesheets
 • Alex Miller and Greg Little
The Last Supper Is Over
SECWAR's speech at Starbase signals a new era at the Pentagon.
 • Shyam Sankar
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