Tyler Hacker

@TylerHacker15 and Luke Widenhouse explore the advantages of energetics munitions and how to overcome barriers to innovation and integration in their latest report, "Choosing Less Bang for Buck: The Underutilization of Advanced Energetics" csbaonline.org/research/publi…

New in @WarOnTheRocks, CSBA's @evanbmontgomery Travis Sharp and @TylerHacker15 make the case for sophisticated, yet scarce systems w/unique advantages, including the ability to inflict virtual attrition on the adversary. tinyurl.com/7mdyx3wj

New article out today in @WarOnTheRocks with my @CSBAdc colleagues @TylerHacker15 and Travis Sharp warontherocks.com/2024/06/qualit…

What does the introduction of the machine gun and the drone to the modern battlefield have in common? @WDMills1992 and I discuss in our latest piece. warontherocks.com/2024/03/outgun…

Happy to share a new article on the need to close the small drone experimentation gap in the Army's combat forces. mwi.westpoint.edu/how-the-us-arm…

In 'Beyond Precision: Maintaining America’s Strike Advantage in Great Power Conflict,' CSBA's @TylerHacker15 explores the munitions requirements of different potential great power conflicts & proposes innovative solutions to a critical security challenge. ow.ly/zaqQ50OMiYn

CSBA Research Fellow Tyler Hacker writes in @WarOnTheRocks that the #US must "embrace innovative weapon designs and rethink strike operations," as well as invest in #munitions production and the #defenseindustrialbase. Read the article: ow.ly/vzQu50NRkGp

Happy to share a new War on the Rocks article about how the U.S. military might prepare it's precision-guided munitions stocks for the demands of great power conflict. warontherocks.com/2023/04/money-…

Coming today, from CSBA: Deterrence and Defense in the Baltic Region – New Realities. Jan van Tol, Chris Bassler, @KakiElgin and @TylerHacker15 examine #Baltic #deterrence and #defense, and implications for #NATO. Join us June 15th to discuss: ow.ly/p5Hp50Jokbc

CSBA’s Travis Sharp, Chris Bassler, and @TylerHacker15 argue in @DefenseOne that a focus on networked force packages, rather than individual weapons, enhances U.S. advantages in #strategiccompetition, improves system performance, and saves money. ow.ly/Frcr50JsASe

The period of the "Phoney War" during 1939-1940 would have been absolutely insufferable had Twitter existed.

This face is pretty much most of NATO's land component soldiers when - correctly - they are told they are moving to the Eastern Front.

It is an impressive display of logistics capability that within a month the Russian Land Forces moved around 60% of the Eastern Military District's combat potential to Belarus.

As everyone is focused on Europe again, I would just like to remind everyone that we never replaced the M110 8-inch self-propelled howitzer. Here are the glorious monsters from REFORGER 1984.

The one thing I have not seen discussed with the impending major Russian invasion of Ukraine is the affects on world food security. This USDA prediction of Oct 2021 will not come true. 1/ fas.usda.gov/data/ukraine-g…

China's economic plan these days reads like a massive security plan. Food security. Energy security. Raw materials security. Supply chain security. Data and tech security. Behind the security obsession is a fundamentally changed relationship w/US wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ

Controversial view, but it's from humble equipment such as dedicate trench / tank ditch digging, or mine laying machinery, and others, that you see how much an army believes it will at some point fight a "real", nasty state-on-state war.

The 2022 defence budget of #Estonia will increase by 16% and equate to 2.3% of GDP. It includes payments related to the procurement of coastal defence missile systems, naval mines, mortars, Carl-Gustaf M4 anti-tank weapons and large-calibre ammunition for the land forces.

Cutting-edge rock ISR. 2/

What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? Modern finance with its obsession with "Return on Equity."