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As the time approaches when the United States Space Force becomes a reality, questions about what it will do, how it will be manned, etc,... Read More
The threat these so-called "space apparatus inspectors" pose is an example of what conflict in space might look like in the future. Read More
Lockheed Martin and its German ally MBDA say they are inching closer toward winning Germany's new program for shooting enemy missiles out of... Read More
NATO special operations forces have been slow to adopt innovative solutions such as Tactical Assault Kit, despite its attractive and... Read More
If Arctic defense is important, the Navy needs to figure out how to train for it and operate in it, an official said. Read More
When the U.S. War of Independence mushroomed into an international maritime conflict with the entry of France and Spain, Great Britain made... Read More
For his last time, Japan's Emperor Akihito addressed a memorial service Wednesday marking the end of World War II. Once again, he expressed... Read More
China established a military base in Djibouti on the coast as recently as last year Read More
Indeed, a U.S. Navy observer, Lieutenant Commander John Opie, was aboard the Illustrious to witness the Taranto strike, and he lost no time... Read More
Tech competition is being used to push a dangerous corporate agenda. Read More
A new deal helps Russia and Iran decide whether the Caspian is legally a lake or a sea. Read More
"There's a real capability that can be deployed as soon as the government says it can be," Northrop Grumman's Rob Jassey told me, possibly... Read More
The political leadership leg of the stool has collapsed even more spectacularly. Barack Obama, for all his virtues, always manifested a... Read More
A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN a crowdsourced archaeology organization and a veterans recovery program has opened up new possibilities for... Read More
Fourteen years ago this Saturday, Lt. Col. David Greene of the U.S. Marine Corps was shot and killed as he flew his Cobra gunship in support... Read More
I grew up in Warner Robins, Georgia. As a member of the United States Senate Armed Services Committee and a former member of the Senate... Read More
On June 8, 1968, a young Marine corporal was in the fight of his life with fellow Marines in an operation just south of Da Nang, Vietnam. A... Read More
This is a tale of two alleged Russian agents — one who got rolled up once her ring activated against a Democratic political figure, and... Read More
Having spent over 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, I'm acutely aware that climate security is national security, a fact recognized by both... Read More
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The United States is reawakening to the Russia threat. Indeed, it would be hard to sleep through Vladimir Putin's brazen tactics. Although... Read More
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army's future missile defense battle manager was put to the test across long distances to prove it's... Read More
Spanish divers have re-discovered the wreck of Nazi submarine 'U-966' Read More
There's broad agreement among defence thinkers and academics that the international security environment is on the cusp of significant... Read More
Currently, Seoul wants to lift international sanctions to legitimise joint economic projects, and Washington has agreed to... Read More
Editor's Note: This is the fifth installment of a special series in collaboration with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Black Sea's... Read More
The Defense Department could use commercial satellites to help defend against enemy hypersonics, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of... Read More
The contract, not allows Lockheed to conduct analysis, "design/development, hardware procurement, early manufacturing. Read More
How do we protect the valuable national asset of artificial intelligence against a range of threats from hostile foreign actors, and how do... Read More
At the Farnborough International Air Show a next generation fighter concept model called 'Tempest' was revealed. Read More
A U.S. diplomat revealed that a Russian space satellite is acting strangely, and could be a possible weapon to attack U.S. interests in orbit Read More
KULALA LUMPUR – Washington is in discussion with individual South-East Asian countries on what programs to support as part of the... Read More
In CAR, as in other war-ravaged countries, cities are often key sites of violent contestation and confrontation. As Africa urbanizes, these... Read More
There are concerns that Japan's increasing reliance on the American Foreign Military Sales program for big-ticket defense articles will... Read More
Cdr Higgins said Brazil has revitalised its space programme since a tragic accident more than a decade ago. A rocket exploding at the... Read More
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Given the S-500's advanced networking capabilities, some military analysts have suggested that the Russians might genuinely be able to engage... Read More
Two members of Marine Special Operations Command received valor awards for their heroism during a gun battle last year with al Qaeda... Read More
It's been just over two months since President Donald Trump met North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Singapore, and there has been little visible... Read More
The American-led invasion of Afghanistan routed Taliban extremists from power after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 17 years... Read More
The U.S. Army's future missile defense battle manager was put to the test across long distances to prove it's capable of playing an integral... Read More
The latest headlines from Afghanistan are much like the old headlines from Afghanistan. This week, U.S.-backed Afghan troops forced the... Read More
The U.S. military learned many valuable lessons from its nearly two decades of war in Southwest Asia. One of the most important of these is the central role that the private sector will play in future operations. For most of this long period of conflict, contractors outnumbered Coalition soldiers in the theaters of conflict.Civilian contractors have a larger presence on today’s battlefields than Read More
"The cloud is not just strategic but existential. Some firms owe their very existence to the cloud, whether they call it that or not. Others can blame their demise to a failure to formulate effective cloud strategies." So said Joe Weinman, the digital strategist and technology executive, in his 2012 book Cloudonomics.No statement on technology has proven more prescient, as businesses around the gl Read More
The 55 boxes of human remains North Korea transferred to the United States this week are “consistent” with being American service members who lost their lives in the Korean War, according to the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Read More
