When it comes to election security, it’s easy to play into the fear, uncertainty, and doubt. But for all the talk around election security, the problem isn’t as bad as many people think — and it is getting better.
The partial government shutdown is entering its nineteenth day. The full breadth of its ramifications is not well understood — particularly its impact on the cybersecurity of our nation’s critical infrastructure.
With Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan now the acting Secretary of Defense, there has been some hyperventilating about whether Boeing has the inside track in the Pentagon. Industry can relax.
Over the holidays, President Trump lashed out at outgoing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. What to make of this public dust-up?
If the U.S. is truly planning for a competition with China, it will need to plan for a long-term effort. The planning should be clear about who and what are opposed, what the U.S. expects from China to avoid conflict escalation, the minimal acceptable change it seeks from the Chinese government, and how far the U.S. is willing to go.
It’s time we ditch the two percent (or any percent) of GDP metric for allied defense spending and focus on what really matters—capability, capacity, readiness, and interoperability. In the end, it’s not about how much of our allies’ economic output is directed to defense, and this metric does little to incentivize the results we want to see.