Warfighting is becoming more risky as authoritarian regimes modernize their forces. If the United States wants to retain the ability to respond successfully to crises across the globe with a leaner and more cost-effective force, then our leaders must recognize that maintaining control of the air is the starting point for U.S. military supremacy.

The Japanese military is emerging from decades of pacifism. But do the country's political leaders have the vision and the will to make the country strong again?

The defense budget cuts that will affect us most are the reductions in recruitment and retention spending for the Marine Corps and Army.

Marines are our American Spartans--and like the Greek Spartans of old, their tradition of courage and self-sacrifice is the ultimate guardian of our freedom.

Likening defense spending to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid entitlements is appalling accounting--the unchecked growth in entitlements are already four times more costly than defense (including war costs) and rising--and an appalling admission that the commander in chief regards that job as just one of many.

The threat of a $500 billion defense sequestration looms as a result of the Super Committee failure - a prospect that Secretary Panetta has called "potentially ruinous." Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon and some of his Senate colleagues have promised...

The heroic and indispensable actions of Self-Defense Forces (Japan's military) in the wake of the March 11 earthquake may have changed Japan's relations with its military forever.

The proposed defense cuts pose an early test of character for the Republican House leadership.