by Dave Patterson | Jan 27, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
With threats and counter-threats flying between U.S.-NATO negotiators and Russia’s leadership, it is possible the players are talking themselves into war over the Russia-Ukraine border crisis. Mr. James Farwell, author of The Corporate Warrior, discussed the...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 20, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
President Joe Biden had a bad national security year in 2021, mostly from self-inflicted injuries and unforced errors. Former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban’s quip about how the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat “never misses an opportunity to miss...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 31, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Making New Year’s predictions about the national security future of the United States in 2022 is a scary undertaking, because of dangerous flashpoints in the world and the Biden administration’s penchant for international blunders. The Russians, Chinese,...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 14, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Congress has presented the American people a lose-lose dilemma. While the defense appropriations bill is bouncing around the halls of the Capitol, the Biden administration wants to put taxpayers deeper in debt. And the funding bill for national security could be a...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 14, 2021 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
The U.S. systems and services procurement process is not perfect. In many cases, it’s quite the opposite. But the spate of contractor protests when a government program or service competition does not go the competitor’s way threatens to impact seriously...