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Defense desk: Get Allies’ Aid on Missile-Making

America’s “munitions shortfall” resulted from “shrinking production capacity” and “overly optimistic assumptions about how long wars will last,” argue William Schneider Jr. & David A. Deptula at The Wall Street Journal. After the Cold War, “defense planning has become more budget-led than strategy-led”; now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows modern war to be “unquestionably intense and lethal, but not necessarily short.” Washington must “look to its allies to expand its industrial base” and scale up missile production, but “current U.S. policy makes such cooperation difficult” as it “was designed to prevent sensitive technology from reaching adversaries.” “Licensing exemptions” for allies will let “sensitive technologies” be “controlled through security arrangements” that can “expand industrial collaboration among trusted allies.” “Rebuilding the arsenal requires rebuilding the system behind it.”

Education beat: NY’s No-Standards Disaster

“New York State is scrapping its storied high school Regents exams as a graduation requirement,” which “set a reasonably high bar for all students throughout the state,” laments the Fordham Institute’s Meredith Coffey. Other states are revising their graduation standards, but New York is the first “to effectively give up on clear academic expectations.” Most troubling: It’s “dismantling the Regents requirements........

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