Pierre Sprey

The president-elect’s likely nominee to head the Pentagon has a history of being close to industry and advocating so-called reforms that would exacerbate the problems confronting our military.

The USS Ford is following the pattern of all recent weapon system programs. It is years behind schedule and billions over budget because the Pentagon continues to conduct business as usual.

President Obama--either naively or cynically--acquiesced to demands to increase spending on nuclear weapons in order to keep the powerful nuclear laboratories and their allies in the defense industry and Congress from lobbying against his new arms limitation treaty. Now it app...

The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program provides a step-by-step case study in acquisition failures and the costs and risks of unacceptable levels of concurrency. Moreover, it shows how Congress repeatedly failed to intervene despite warnings from independent analysists and wat...