Defense of infancy

The current fiscal environment continues to highlight challenges of U.S. Defense Acquisitions to support the Joint Force Commander (JFC). Continued technical proficiency deficits in personnel, cost over-runs, performance issues, and missed production and delivery deadlines plague efforts to provide the JFC with goods and services. Moreover, Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition risks continue to increase. Constantly changing requirements, reliance on multiple processes and policies, and…

Inboden, The Role of a Strong National Defense). Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt advocated for a strong military. They believed in the concept, “peace through strength”. Reagan felt strongly about building up our military. Many tanks, planes, and ships are owned by the military thanks to Reagan. The Reagan administration also brought up some of the best planes, the F-15 and the F-16 which are still used today. He spent at most $456.5 on defense billion in 1987 (in projected…

Expeditionary Force 21 (EF-21) outlined four Lines of Effort (LOEs) that the Marine Corps must address in the coming years: 1. Refining our Organization 2. Adjusting our Forward Posture 3. Increasing Naval Integration 4. Enhancing Littoral Maneuver Capability Along with these four lines of effort, EF-21 highlights 13 focus areas for the Marine Corps to improve upon: 1. Naval Integration 2. Conducting Security Cooperation 3. Maneuver 4. Fires 5. Command and Control / NET Centric 6. Cyberspace…

The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) outlined and prioritized security interests nested with the National Security Strategy and provided guidance on how to support these priorities within the limitations of defined budget. Great emphasis on modernization and reducing force numbers with an explanation of how a confined budget is applied to management of DOD resources resounds throughout the QDR. In terms of rebalancing the force, personnel reduction are outlined with identified risk and…

The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, summed up his assessment of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) in the following statement: “With our “ends” fixed and our “means” declining, it is therefore imperative that we innovate within the “ways” we defend the Nation.” Strategic planning and transition to Joint Force 2020 (JF 2020) in a fiscally constrained environment affords DoD senior leaders the opportunity to be more innovative than ever before in assessing and…

Unmanned Mission Communications Carlos Mennechey UNSY 601: Unmanned Systems Command, Control, and Communications Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University November 9, 2014 Transmission medium of signal propagation and its impact on operational design. The three systems selected to discuss the different communication designs over different domains are: the BlueFin UUV using a tethered fiber-optic connection. the RQ-2b Pioneer drone using the Tadiran Spectra Link RF communication for LOS. the Mars…

world requires money; The US spends what the whole rest of the world spends on defense: $597.5 billion. The next country closest the US is China, spending $145.8 billion. Although the US spend the most on the military, the US’ military personnel comes in second having 1,281,900 people active while China has 2,333,000 active. The Military has a set order of seniority under the current regulations of the Department of defense. The display of the flags, placement of soldiers, Marines, Sailors,…

“Bullet the Blue Sky” and “Minority Poem” are two poems which utilize figurative language, such as metaphors, similes, and symbols to artistically illustrate how minorities and third-world nations are treated by the United States and/or its government. “Bullet the Blue Sky,” written by the band U2, elucidates how the United States government employs deception and war to coerce foreign nations into adopting its political beliefs. Specifically, it elaborates on the journey of the protagonist, Bono…

2008, the United States Intelligence Committee wrote a report on climate change, discussing its involvement with national security. This later led to the Department of Defense acknowledging the need for strategic approach to the impacts of climate change in its 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review. Most recently, the Fourth Quadrennial Defense Review, created in 2014, grouped climate change risk into two categories, physical impacts and indirect impacts. The physical impacts are the effect climate…

At a point in time where equality between all people, no matter what their differences, is perhaps the biggest issue with immense pressure for change; it is astounding to see the lengths some people will go to to hold back progress. In concerns to the U.S. Military, there have been many adversaries of women being allowed to join all combat roles and positions in service. Those mainly opposed are men and women that argue that the physical ability, efficiency, and military readiness will not be at…