The US is facing a maritime crisis. @MEaglen and Benjamin Jensen lay out seven key initiatives to reshape the relationship between economic power and sea power. Read more here:
https://t.co/fJLZB74JVh
The Army has canceled dozens of medical training courses as the service moves to manage a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall that is rippling across the force, according to multiple U.S. officials and internal documents reviewed by ABC News. https://t.co/gICukLx73f
Navy's new shipbuilding plan starts w/necessary honesty.
More Pentagon documents should include Uncle Sam's (partial? majority?) ownership of the problem
The U.S. military must get more counter-drone systems quickly and put more critical assets
-underground,
-beneath hardened shelters, or
-in space.
https://t.co/3Pg08mPOfk
While the U.S. military has a plentiful supply of legacy munitions—older, unguided artillery rounds and conventional bombs—it is alarmingly bare on exquisite weapons, writes AEI’s @MEaglen https://t.co/zI5uuxjNQ4
The United States should urgently revitalize its maritime industrial base and forge a modernized naval strategy.
A great letter in The Wall Street Journal from AEI’s @MEaglen and Filemón Vela Jr. on how we can fix the US Navy. https://t.co/JWEbTPJqNX
https://t.co/HewjuXNuOo
The @USNavy challenges span decades. Underinvestment has strained readiness, shipbuilding, & munitions. Fixes within reach:
⚓️Fast autonomous systems
⚓️Scalable weapons
⚓️Strong industrial base
⚓️Modern maritime strategy
Bipartisan action is essential.
Noting that Admiral Paparo @INDOPACOM favors buying 200 B-21 bombers, @SenatorRounds asks whether the Pentagon should revisit the requirement of 100 Raiders to match the global threat?
Sec. Hegseth tells the Senate the U.S. military will require a "lot more" B-21s, definitely "over 100."
Not a secret.
AEI has calculated at least $5 billion in damages to U.S. military bases in the Gulf hit in retaliation to Operation Epic Fury — whether the Pentagon rebuilds fully, partially, or not at all.
https://t.co/8jR68JOQCP
"One of the sources said the real cost estimate is closer to $40-50 billion when accounting for the costs of rebuilding US military installations and replacing destroyed assets."
Hat tip to @NBCNews - I’ve been chasing this news of the Iranian F-5 for the last few weeks. Had a hard time pinning down exactly what date it occurred. https://t.co/L4ghP2vZvV
Epic Fury will require a $$ supplemental — even if U.S. military force posture changes, or is reduced, in the Middle East after the war
https://t.co/wfFMi253fT
A pleasure to hear and learn from @SenatorWicker@RobWittman@RepJoeCourtney & @RepTrentKelly—followed by a great panel of experts covering the waterfront from acquisition to private capital partners to the shipyards and skilled trade workers of America. Onward!
NEW: The Future of the Navy Commission holds its first hearing this morning. It’s been a long road to this point — Congress created the panel at the end of 2022.
More in @morningdefense about what to expect from the commission studying the fleet’s problems:
“The U.S. military expended 1/4 of its entire THAAD interceptor inventory in last summer’s 12-day war.”
Me & @ToddHarrisonDC
September 25, 2025
https://t.co/IpuJjtEaxP
There was only one Natsec analyst in the world who told us our THAAD stockpiles were insufficient to sustain a war against Iran for more than 10 days.
That was @WeTheBrandon.
And he said that BEFORE the war started.