Michael Puttré, Author at Discourse

Michael Puttré

Michael Puttré is a freelance writer living in New York. Formerly, he was editor-in-chief of The Journal of Electronic Defense and editor of Solar Industry magazine. His science fiction novel, Outre Mer, is available on Kindle.

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Don’t Call Them UFOs, But U.S. Military Pilots Are Having a Lot of Aerial Encounters with Unknown Objects

The most startling revelation in the U.S. government’s report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ...

Politics

Is Deterrence Dead?

With the Biden administration embarking on its Nuclear Posture Review, it’s time to ...

Business & Economics

U.S. Military Procurement Is Broken

The United States has a long tradition of tapping the ingenuity of its ...

Politics

The Future of Taiwan: Communist China Will Not Take Taiwan Unless the U.S. Allows It

Just as Adolph Hitler characterized Czechoslovakia as a “dagger pointed at the heart ...

Business & Economics

Electric Vehicle Mandates Need Nuclear Power to Work

Before the inauguration of President Biden, governments in 11 states—led inevitably by California—had ...

Business & Economics

The Solar System Is Open for Business

Last December, a small object entered the atmosphere and streaked across the night ...

Politics

The Global Contest Over Hypersonic Weapons

Futuristic weapons systems can grab our attention, excite our imagination—and cause a good ...

Business & Economics

Electric Dreams

Pundits, particularly in the West, are casting energy policy as a zero-sum game ...

Politics

Securing the High Frontier

In September, the US Space Force began accepting the first of an expected ...

Politics

Sovereignty and the New Total War

Suppose they gave a war and nobody realized it. This 21st-century spin on ...

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