Heritage Foundation
A Strategy to Revitalize the Defense Industrial Base for the 21st Century
Date: May 7, 2025
Author(s): Robert Greenway, Jim Fein, Richard Stern, Wilson Beaver, Madison Doan, Rachel Greszler, Jordan Embree, and Robert Peters
Department of Defense
The Department is expanding its approach to workforce optimization. This memo underscores a new layer of focus: ensuring we recognize, retain, and reward the people who are delivering the greatest mission impact.
Date: April 8, 2025
Author(s): Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg
Executive Order
The President seeks to modernize defense acquisition and spur innovation in the defense industrial base
Date: April 9, 2025
Author(s): President Donald Trump
Department of Veterans Affairs
Budget Profile, Statistics, and Considerations for Reform
Date: May 23, 2018
Author(s): Arnold Punaro
Senate Armed Services Committee
Statement for the Record: The Urgent Need to Reform and Reduce the DOD’s Overhead and Infrastructure
Date: November 17, 2015
Author(s): Arnold Punaro
Restoring Freedom’s Forge
We have a generational opportunity to transform the Pentagon for the 21st century. This report outlines steps Congress should take to support the president in freeing our defense enterprise and allowing the United States to outpace and out-innovate our adversaries once again
Date: December 19, 2024
Author(s): Senator Roger Wicker
The Atlantic Council
The draft ended fifty years ago. Can the all-volunteer force survive another fifty?
Date: September 11, 2023
Author(s): James L. Jones, Jr. and Arnold Punaro
DOGE for Defense:
The US military’s inability to address critical modernization and force-planning challenges has left it in decline relative to its competitors, shifting the global military balance against the United States.
Date: January 22, 2025
Author(s): Mackenzie Eaglen
Ticking Time Bombs of the Ever Shrinking Fighting Force
Adapted from remarks made by Maj. Gen. Punaro at the launch of his second book, The Ever-Shrinking Fighting Force
Date: January 22, 2025
Author(s): Arnold Punaro