Brig. Gen. Houston Cantwell, USAF (Ret.)
Brig. Gen. Houston Cantwell, USAF (Ret.), served as a combat pilot, commander, and strategist, flying the F-16, MQ-9, and RQ-4 aircraft. Over the course of a 30-year career, he spent more than 12 years in the Pacific and European theaters, working closely with U.S. allies and partners, including as part of NATO.
Recent stories by Brig. Gen. Houston Cantwell, USAF (Ret.)
Homeland Sanctuary Lost: Securing the Arctic Flank
The time is now to rebuild our northern tier defenses. Modern adversaries like Russia and China spent the past three decades developing and fielding advanced weapons capable of striking the U.S. homeland. Today, their advanced nuclear and nonnuclear missiles have...
Air and Missile Defense for the US Is an Absolute Imperative
If there is anything we’ve learned from the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel—and the growing threats from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—it is that massed air and missile attacks are now a fundamental component of modern warfare. This puts our U.S. homeland at risk.
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