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Chris Simpson, RealClearDefense

Global Security Review
As the world prepares for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the implications for global arms control loom large.

Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs
The Conservative Case for Reindustrialization

IntEngineering
The USS Lyndon B. Johnson is now undergoing its transformation to accommodate the CPS missile system.

Five years ago, we warned that a snap decision to depart Syria — abandoning the U.S. Kurdish-led partner force that has fought the Islamic State in Syria for the last 10 years while thousands of suspected fighters remained in detention — would provide a devastating setback to the fight against the terror group and damage overall American credibility. A few weeks later, amongst a U.S.

“In the United States people are singularly oblivious of the close relation between peace and preparation.” –Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1912 Only 34 percent of Americans can find Taiwan on a map and they are even less aware of U.S. strategic interests there. The Chinese Communist Party leadership likely knows this. National will is critical for preventing or winning a protracted war over Taiwan. The stakes of conflict determine national resolve. “Rally around the flag” effects from initial fighting can be short-lived. Resolve falters as costs mount unless stakes are high.

Navy Cmdr. Sarah M. Quemada has been fired as the commanding officer of Naval Information Warfare Training Group Norfolk in Virginia “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to command,” the service announced on Thursday.
Rear Adm. Brian A. Harding, commander of Naval Information Warfighting Development Center, relieved Quemada on Thursday, a Navy news release says. No information was immediately available about the specific reason for her firing.

A soldier just three weeks from basic infantry training graduation died while off-duty at Fort Moore, Georgia on Jan. 8. 
Pfc. McCallaster Foley, 20, was killed in what base officials said was a “non-training-related” incident while off-duty after dinner. Officials did not give details about what led to his death, citing an ongoing investigation.
Foley was nearing the end of the five-month training pipeline in which new recruits attend both boot camp and basic infantry training.

Pete Hegseth, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Pentagon chief, made it clear to lawmakers this week that, if confirmed, he plans to prioritize the military’s adoption and integration of autonomous technologies in modern operations and enhance its ability to counter drones that continue to disrupt U.S. national security.
“Unmanned [platforms] will be a very important part of the way future wars are fought. Just the idea of survivability for human beings — to drive cost and time in ways that manned systems do not,” Hegseth said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday.

The UK appears to have secretively developed a new air defence system for Ukraine, that can use existing stocks of air-to-air missiles.