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30 Years: MRAP — Rapid Acquisition Success
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle program is considered the model to follow when getting acquisition right while rapidly fielding equipment to the troops.
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30 Years: Strategic Defense Initiative — A Controversial Legacy
Declaring the US was lagging the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race, President Ronald Reagan launched the wildly ambitious Strategic Defense Initiative to render Soviet ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete.”
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30 Years: US Navy Ship Design — Technological Leap of Faith
Taken together, the Zumwalt-class destroyers, Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and the Littoral Combat Ship represent the greatest technological leap of faith in naval shipbuilding history.
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30 Years: Base Realignment and Closure — A Bitter Pill
There were BRAC rounds in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995, but the most notorious is the 2005 edition.
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30 Years: Goldwater-Nichols — A New Chain of Command
The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 emerged from a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationships between the president, the defense secretary, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior commanders in the field.
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30 Years: Budget Control Act — Birth of Sequestration
The 2011 Budget Control Act has been no friend to the Department of Defense. Since its passage, the department has experienced sequestration, shutdown, furloughs and more.
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30 Years: Saddam Hussein — Trigger for Enduring War
For the generations of war waged during his life and the scourge of jihadist terror triggered after his death, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein serves as a tragic and costly lesson to the West.
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30 Years: Deng Xiaoping — Enabling China’s Rise
The de-facto controller of the world’s largest nation implemented economic reforms which saw China emerge from the long shadow cast by the cultural revolution and earlier policies of Chairman Mao Zedong.
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30 Years: The House Freedom Caucus — A Shadow Party Created
GOP leaders, like the House Freedom Caucus, these days talk more about responsible federal budgeting, cutting deficits and pushing back on domestic spending than about giving more to the military.
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30 Years: Vladimir Putin — Self-Styled Iron Man
It’s hard to imagine any single figure with more influence over the current course of geopolitical events than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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30 Years: MRAP — Rapid Acquisition Success
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle program is considered the model to follow when getting acquisition right while rapidly fielding equipment to the troops.
-
30 Years: Strategic Defense Initiative — A Controversial Legacy
Declaring the US was lagging the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race, President Ronald Reagan launched the wildly ambitious Strategic Defense Initiative to render Soviet ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete.”
-
30 Years: US Navy Ship Design — Technological Leap of Faith
Taken together, the Zumwalt-class destroyers, Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and the Littoral Combat Ship represent the greatest technological leap of faith in naval shipbuilding history.
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30 Years: Base Realignment and Closure — A Bitter Pill
There were BRAC rounds in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995, but the most notorious is the 2005 edition.
-
30 Years: Goldwater-Nichols — A New Chain of Command
The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 emerged from a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationships between the president, the defense secretary, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior commanders in the field.
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30 Years: Budget Control Act — Birth of Sequestration
The 2011 Budget Control Act has been no friend to the Department of Defense. Since its passage, the department has experienced sequestration, shutdown, furloughs and more.
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30 Years: Saddam Hussein — Trigger for Enduring War
For the generations of war waged during his life and the scourge of jihadist terror triggered after his death, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein serves as a tragic and costly lesson to the West.
-
30 Years: Deng Xiaoping — Enabling China’s Rise
The de-facto controller of the world’s largest nation implemented economic reforms which saw China emerge from the long shadow cast by the cultural revolution and earlier policies of Chairman Mao Zedong.
-
30 Years: The House Freedom Caucus — A Shadow Party Created
GOP leaders, like the House Freedom Caucus, these days talk more about responsible federal budgeting, cutting deficits and pushing back on domestic spending than about giving more to the military.
-
30 Years: Vladimir Putin — Self-Styled Iron Man
It’s hard to imagine any single figure with more influence over the current course of geopolitical events than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
-
30 Years: MRAP — Rapid Acquisition Success
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle program is considered the model to follow when getting acquisition right while rapidly fielding equipment to the troops.
-
30 Years: Strategic Defense Initiative — A Controversial Legacy
Declaring the US was lagging the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race, President Ronald Reagan launched the wildly ambitious Strategic Defense Initiative to render Soviet ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete.”
-
30 Years: US Navy Ship Design — Technological Leap of Faith
Taken together, the Zumwalt-class destroyers, Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and the Littoral Combat Ship represent the greatest technological leap of faith in naval shipbuilding history.
-
30 Years: Base Realignment and Closure — A Bitter Pill
There were BRAC rounds in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995, but the most notorious is the 2005 edition.
-
30 Years: Goldwater-Nichols — A New Chain of Command
The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 emerged from a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationships between the president, the defense secretary, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior commanders in the field.
-
30 Years: Budget Control Act — Birth of Sequestration
The 2011 Budget Control Act has been no friend to the Department of Defense. Since its passage, the department has experienced sequestration, shutdown, furloughs and more.
-
30 Years: Saddam Hussein — Trigger for Enduring War
For the generations of war waged during his life and the scourge of jihadist terror triggered after his death, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein serves as a tragic and costly lesson to the West.
-
30 Years: Deng Xiaoping — Enabling China’s Rise
The de-facto controller of the world’s largest nation implemented economic reforms which saw China emerge from the long shadow cast by the cultural revolution and earlier policies of Chairman Mao Zedong.
-
30 Years: The House Freedom Caucus — A Shadow Party Created
GOP leaders, like the House Freedom Caucus, these days talk more about responsible federal budgeting, cutting deficits and pushing back on domestic spending than about giving more to the military.
-
30 Years: Vladimir Putin — Self-Styled Iron Man
It’s hard to imagine any single figure with more influence over the current course of geopolitical events than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
