Feature articles in this theme:
By Kenneth Flamm
15 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
After half a century, the revolution in computer technology continues to
rapidly transform the world about us. There have been, however, some fundamental changes in the dynamics
driving this process over the last decade and a half, and these changes
raise important questions about whether this process is still serving
the U.S. national interest in quite the same simple, straightforward,
uncomplicated way that was apparent in earlier epochs.
By David Axe
15 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
The past year has been pivotal for one of the world's most
important strategic industries. For the first time, the
U.S. Air Force -- the world's most important aerospace customer --
bought more unmanned aircraft than manned aircraft. In the same
time-span, the Air Force settled on the
exportable F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as its fighter of the future. If the two programs represent dual paths of current and future aerospace, they are highly divergent
paths.
By Eric Sterner
15 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
Increasingly, if one digs deeply enough into any economic activity in
the 21st century, a space element will be involved. And as the world's
most developed space power, the United States has led the way in
integrating space into its economic foundations and military capabilities. That ought to give policymakers pause, because the U.S. space industrial base
is not what it used to be. Indeed, its health is actually in question.