F-35: No Finish Line in Sight
The F-35 has now entered an unprecedented seventeenth year of continuing redesign, test deficiencies, fixes, schedule slippages, and cost overruns. And it’s still not at the finish line. Numerous miss...
26 Mars 201846min
Pierre Sprey and the Birth of the A-10, Part II
The A-10 has proven itself to be one of the most venerable and capable aircraft in the U.S. arsenal. It is also an aircraft most people in the Air Force never wanted, and they have spent years activel...
31 Jan 20181h 3min
Pierre Sprey and the Birth of the A-10
The A-10 has proven itself to be one of the most venerable and capable aircraft in the US arsenal. It is also an aircraft most people in the Air Force never wanted and have spent years actively workin...
18 Dec 20171h 1min
$21 Billion Worth of Concurrency Orphans?
Congress has authorized—and the Pentagon has spent—nearly $40 billion purchasing approximately 189 F-35s that, in their current configuration, will never be able to perform the way they were expected ...
15 Nov 201714min
Don Vandergriff on Mission Command
The doctrine of both the Army and Marine Corps are based on a foundation of mission command, a leadership philosophy where commanders tell subordinates what they want done but allow the subordinate le...
26 Juli 201731min
Bruce Gudmundsson on the Importance of History
Secretary of Defense James Mattis once wrote, “Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsu...
29 Juni 201738min
Mark Thompson and the Military Industrial Circus
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Thompson has a 4 decade-long perspective covering the Pentagon. He brings this experience to the Center for Defense Information and POGO with his new column, the...
30 Maj 201726min
F - 35 Still Stumbling Podcast
DOT&E Releases Analysis and It Isn’t Pretty President Trump called the F-35 “fantastic.” It appears he didn’t read the latest brutally honest report from the Pentagon’s testing office. POGO wades thr...
30 Mars 201757min
