Tokyo is expected to announce Friday that it will buy America's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the clearest statement yet that Japan will not be left behind in Asia's arms race.

The $489 billion cut to defense budgets engineered by Barack Obama — as well as the played-for-fool Republican accomplices on Capitol Hill — won't just mean less American military power. These cuts have significant consequences for America's allies, as well. Consider the case of the...

The raptor is the only plane that can meet the challenges of China and Russia's developing air defenses.

"Concurrency" in defense programs–that is, overlapping development and production of weapons systems–has long been a controversial Pentagon practice. Now the Obama Pentagon is threatening to rewrite the procurement rules in a way that would make it extremely difficult to have the option of concurrent development and production.

How will the Joint Strike Fighter change U.S. and Asian force structures?

The temptation to plunder the F-35 budget is overwhelming. But preserving the program is essential for America’s defense for the foreseeable future.

The United States must ensure thatallies get access to fifth-generation aircraft.

The North Korean challenge is complex, but by now all too familiar. Nearly two decades of negotiations have failed to resolve the nuclear problem, and North Korea has been carrying out aggression against the South for much longer than that. It is time for the allies to try something new.