One slight problem: the F-22 requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in flight.
Congress this week is engaged in one of those debates that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair over the political process. At…
The Pentagon this week dropped a bundle of bad news on Boeing Co. and its St. Louis-based Integrated Defense Systems unit: The $160 billion Future Combat Systems program has been canceled.
The program was managed here, but development and production work was farmed…
Super Hornet: More of these.
On Tuesday, 10 U.S. senators and House members got together in a room in the Capitol and saved the jobs of 900 St. Louisans, 5,000 Californians and thousands more around the country.
They did this by deciding to…
F-22 Raptor: We'll buy fewer of these.
In his farewell address as president, Dwight Eisenhower, who knew a thing or two about war, coined the phrase “military-industrial complex” to describe the “conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry…
Can the F-22 outfly the sunset?
In his budget message last week, President Barack Obama proposed spending $533.7 billion on military defense. In an era of $700 billion financial bailouts, $787 billion stimulus packages and $1.75 trillion deficits, a half-trillion defense budget…
President-elect Obama with Hillary Clinton and James L. Jones Jr. (AP Wirephoto)
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are…
In the past few months, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has subtly begun putting the Pentagon on what he calls “war footing.” Last week, he dropped the subtlety and, in the interest of preparing for “the long war” against Islamist jihadists, he attacked…
While working on an editorial for the weekend, I read the two controversial speeches that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates delivered Monday, the first to the Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Ala., the second at West Point. I don’t…
