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Dr. Mark T. Esper

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Proud husband & father. Army and Gulf War veteran. 27th Secretary of Defense and 23d Secretary of the Army. Author of NYT bestselling memoir — “A Sacred Oath.”

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Need this and more. All US allies, and especially NATO members, should at least match US spending on defense as percent of GDP! Peace through Strength, and strength requires real investment.

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Yes. This is consistent with the findings of the Atlantic Council commission I co-chaired on Software Defined Warfare this year. Commercial software should be the default for Pentagon procurement, just as I directed in 2020 and was reaffirmed by DOD recently. This will allow the

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Ignore the ayatollah’s tough talk. Iran is on its heels due to economic sanctions, Israeli military actions last year, and domestic unrest. Now is the time to stand firm and press our advantage. They need a hard deadline, otherwise the regime will drag out any talks.

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Hope to see political stability return to Seoul now, but concern about too leftward a shift by the new leadership is real. We need a ROK government that will enhance our alliance, bolster its military, and stand with the U.S. as we increasingly face off against China in the

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A day that changed history for freedom, liberty, and mankind. We owe much to this greatest generation that took up arms in defense of traditional American values to save the future…our future. Never forget.

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Americans could be drawn to leaders who show the inner strength to rise above discord and name-calling and who focus on moving the country forward. Who knows? Decency might even become great again, writes Karl Rove on.wsj.com/4kxd7FW

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“The nation now spends more on interest payments than it does on defense…”. This is unsustainable. Our excessive spending also crowds out important non-defense priorities as well. We need bipartisan compromise that not only eliminates the deficit, but gets us on a long term

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The U.S. must do a few things at once: preserve AUKUS and its pillars (eg, tech cooperation) AND build more attack submarines. The plan for a future Navy I put forward in 2020 called for building 3 subs a year given the clear overmatch we have over the Chinese and the critical

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Bold and decisive action by Israel. Iran was never going to agree to give up uranium enrichment. It was buying time to rebuild its missile defenses, secure its nuclear facilities, and expand operations in pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Iran has been a malevolent force throughout

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Great idea. The Army has a history of doing similar things, whether during World War II to build America’s “arsenal of democracy,” or as recently as 2019 when my team and I stood up an Army Reserve “AI Task Force” at Carnegie Mellon University university cmu.edu/news/stories/a… to educate,

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Glad this happening. Japan is our most important ally in the IndoPacific, so it was never about national security. This is a good deal for steel production in the U.S., for my birth state Pennsylvania, and for steelworkers. “Yinzers” like me want to see USS operations modernized

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“The push for widespread use of unmanned vessels in the US military goes back to the first Trump administration, with then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper in 2020 calling for hundreds of new uncrewed ships to be in the water in the coming decades.” We are years behind in going

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Given the horrific political shootings/murders in Minnesota this past Saturday, it unfortunately seems appropriate to recirculate an opinion piece I wrote last summer on the growing political violence, and the need to protect current and former officials who face real threats, as

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Congrats to the US military on a job well done! It will take time to fully assess the effectiveness of the strikes and how long the Iranian nuclear program was set back, but clearly the world is much better off today. Time for Tehran to negotiate an end to hostilities that

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A great American who did much for our country. I was honored to know him, and was always struck by his pride in being a U.S. Marine more than what he accomplished with FedEx, even though it is such a great company. He was a superb patriot, entrepreneur, and businessman. May he

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Iran will need to immediately turn over the nearly 900 lbs of uranium it enriched to 60% (can be used to create at least 9 atomic bombs); enable international dismantlement of its non compliant nuclear infrastructure; abide by all relevant NPT/IAEA requirements; and allow

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Kudos to POTUS for getting NATO to dramatically increase defense spending. The threats warrant it. However, the allies need to hit that mark much sooner. NATO SecGen Rutte said weeks ago that Russia could rearm and threaten the alliance by 2030. To deter future bad behavior by

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As I predicted over a week ago on CNBCOvertime, we now learn that Iran has suspended all cooperation with the IAEA. We need inspectors in there NOW to assess the state of Iran’s nuclear program, find the missing enriched uranium, reinstall cameras, etc as part of a comprehensive