Europe’s defense capability has “declined roughly 15 percent over the last decade,” said Dr. Hans Binnendijk, senior fellow at the SAIS Center, at AFA’s 2013 Air & Space Conference in National Harbor, Md. “Those cuts have [first come] horizontally, taking little bits and pieces out of the force structure,” essentially creating a hollow force, he said. Then NATO countries began taking cuts vertically. And a “lot of this has been done without consultation from the alliance.” NATO has other areas it needs to work on, he said, as emerging threats and challenges arise. One particular concern is cooperative security. This area would get a C or C+ in his book, he said, as NATO needs to create partnerships with neutral countries in Europe, the Gulf states, and countries in Asia, such as Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India.
Boeing Claims Progress on T-7 and Other Challenged Programs
April 25, 2025
Boeing appears to have become to overcome the problems that led to billions in losses on fixed-price defense contracts in recent years, point the company back toward profitabily, says Boeing president and CEO Kelly Ortberg.