As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, restoring the readiness of the U.S. Armed Forces is one of my highest priorities. Our nation has fielded the finest military the world has ever seen, ...

The defense industrial base is not ready for future conflicts and needs to develop a mobilization strategy for when crisis occur, according to a new report out of the Greg and Camille Baroni Center ...

More than a decade before American troops fought their way ashore in Normandy and Okinawa, the U.S. military noted that “the success of a modern fighting force is directly and immediately dependent on ...

Military mobilization involves the assembling and organizing of national military resources. Lawmakers worry that the U.S. defense-industrial base is not optimized for rapid mobilization in response ...

With unfettered access to the global industrial base, the United States can respond effectively to virtually any challenge worldwide, but if the world were a different place, a U.S. response might be ...

The “fully mobilized Joint Force,” the National Defense Strategy tells us, will be capable of “defeating aggression by a major power; deterring opportunistic aggression elsewhere; and disrupting ...

The U.S. builds less than 1 percent of the world’s ships and relies on foreign vessels for military supplies. A new book about the last time we dominated shipbuilding suggests Trump’s approach of ...