June 20, 2025 | By
Tobias Naegele It is a law of survival, if not physics: In war, any advantage wielded by one side will be countered with an opposite, if not equal force, in a continuous back-and-forth until one or the other capitulates. The resultant innovation...
April 4, 2025 | By
Tobias Naegele The Trump administration arrived in Washington promising to restore America’s military, reinvigorate deterrence, and bring back its warrior ethos. These are not things that can change overnight, but there is evidence of progress. Topics that were gingerly avoided six months...
Feb. 7, 2025 | By
Tobias Naegele News coming out of the White House since President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20 is striking in its velocity. The subjects of his Executive Orders and policy memos were unsurprising, fulfilling oft-repeated campaign promises, but the speed, volume, and details—or lack of them—caught everyone ...
Nov. 1, 2024
A nation that budgets more than $840 billion for national defense has reason to believe it is well-insured. But circumstances change. What was good enough before may not be good enough for long.
Sept. 6, 2024 | By
Tobias Naegele The risk of world war today has never been greater since 1940—and the United States has arguably never been less ready. Waking the nation up to that fact should be a top priority for our national leaders, though precious little has been said or will ...
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July 26, 2024 | By
Tobias Naegele In the absence of a rival superpower in the 1990s, and with the miscalculations of the post-9/11 counterinsurgency campaigns, the successive administrations, the Pentagon, and Congress managed to squander America’s technological edge.
June 7, 2024 | By
Tobias Naegele The principles of the Powell Doctrine and the effective deterrence that it should yield remain relevant today as we contemplate a new Cold War with China and two regional conflicts in which American policy is deeply intertwined.
March 28, 2024 | By
Tobias Naegele Three decades of underfunding and deferred modernization have left the Air Force ill-equipped for peer conflict, and there’s only one way to fix that: Spend big.
Jan. 26, 2024 | By
Tobias Naegele Having focused the services’ modernization efforts around seven Operational Imperatives designed to accelerate the injection of new capabilities into the force, Kendall is now setting his sights on organizational impediments to change.
Nov. 30, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele Recent Chiefs put the Air Force on the right course. Allvin’s mission is to deliver on those promises.
Nov. 2, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele The conflicts in Israel and Ukraine could not be more different. The lessons for Americans could not be greater.
Oct. 5, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele Divisive politics here at home undermine confidence in the United States among our own citizens as well as our allies.
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Aug. 31, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele We are also in a modern-day arms race, in some cases playing catch-up, and we are competing to win friends and influence nations worldwide.
July 28, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele To achieve that, Congress and the Pentagon must make a strategic shift in priorities, providing an additional redirecting of $10 billion to $20 billion annually to the Department of the Air Force. This is the only way to remain ready today while modernizing for tomorrow.
June 14, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele For the first time in 18 years, an Airman will be the commander in chief’s top military adviser, and not a moment too soon. As Chairman, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. will have an opportunity to exert influence across the joint enterprise, including how requirements ...
April 27, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele How is it, the public wondered, that our military trusts people so young with secrets so large? ... The fact is, the military could not function if it didn’t trust volunteers in their teens and early 20s with security clearances.
March 31, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele Today’s recruiting challenges are systemic to our national circumstances. The military is in a more competitive environment than ever, at a time when other societal changes are also working to the services’ disadvantage.
Feb. 16, 2023 | By
Tobias Naegele All the best satellite intelligence and ground-based radars in the world can still miss threats if they don’t know what they’re looking for.