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On January 27, 2017, shortly after his inauguration, President Donald J. Trump directed the Pentagon to undertake a Nuclear Posture Review... Read More
For the last two weeks, U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 “Wake Island... Read More
COLOGNE, Germany – Dutch defense minister Ank Bijleveld has eliminated the country's budget cap for F-35 purchases, opening the... Read More
Almost nothing is known about the new bomber in development, the B-21 Raider, the most important Air Force project of the new... Read More
An Army medic who braved enemy rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire in Afghanistan to treat wounded soldiers will receive the... Read More
Daphné Richemond-Barak, Underground Warfare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 [ISBN: 9780190457259, paper, 296... Read More
For decades, the US Navy's measure of success was its capability to hit a moving target at sea better than the other guy. But today, the... Read More
AFA: The Air Force is developing smart bombs that detonate differently depending on the target. These “Dialable... Read More
In the past several months, many commentators (including me) have argued that the U.S. government should consider the Coast Guard as the... Read More
Magic Leap Inc. is pushing to land a contract with the U.S. Army to build augmented-reality devices for soldiers to use on combat missions,... Read More
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday that the recent identifications of the remains of two soldiers missing from the Korean... Read More
Men and women assigned to Navy ships at sea are far more likely to be sexually assaulted than service members at bases elsewhere across the... Read More
The Navy identified a sailor who was killed aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) on Monday on the carrier's flight deck.Airman... Read More
Two pilots safely ejected after a T-38 crashed Tuesday morning at Sheppard AFB, Texas. The mishap is the fourth crash involving a T-38 in the... Read More
Americans on Tuesday will mark the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that claimed almost 3,000 lives.President Donald... Read More
President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of 10 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports, marking a significant escalation in... Read More
"Maybe the grandiose version of strategy is overrated. A nation that muddles along may nonetheless move forward; and America has done just... Read More
LIBERALISM made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebellion... Read More
Seventeen years ago today all of our lives changed for good, but not for the better.The terrorist attacks on New York City, the Pentagon and... Read More
More From Real Clear
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Marines are already getting their hands on the deadly new Mk13 sniper rifle, just months after the Corps announced it was finally... Read More
U.S. Army weapons officials have figured out the cause and ginned up a fix for a dangerous glitch in the selector switch... Read More
Recently Vice Admiral Tom Moore, Naval Systems Sea Command (NavSea), announced an extension in the expected service life of several classes... Read More
US Air Force F-22s and F-35s will soon launch and control recoverable attack drones from the cockpit of the plane to expand air-combat... Read More
The UK Ministry of Defense said the unresponsive planes presented a hazard to other aviation by not communicating."Russian bombers probing UK... Read More
The best way for Germany to lead the future defense of Europe is to bring all Europeans together, the United Kingdom included. But real... Read More
CSIS: The Air Force threw out two big numbers this week, but one of Washington's leading budget analysts doesn't think either of them is... Read More
Except for the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003, America has been fighting small, counterinsurgency wars since 9-11. This begs the question... Read More
Infantry is “a tough job for anybody to be able to, as you know, the primary purpose to close with and destroy the enemy. That is our... Read More
The second nuclear age wasn't supposed to happen.That's the crux of the problem.Nuclear rivalry was a defining feature of the first nuclear... Read More
The commander of the Chinese navy is visiting the United States this week amid growing military and trade tensions between the United States... Read More
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was empowered by Congress to lead the process of creating a separate... Read More
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Air Force is taking steps to help its leaders wrap their heads around the new complex world of multi-domain... Read More
ASSOCIATION OF THE US ARMY HQ: Army leaders are working hard to build consensus for painful cuts to free up funding for... Read More
Raytheon says its Joint Precision Approach and Landings System, or JPALS, is revolutionizing landings at sea for the first two deployed squadrons of the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter.Now, the company is setting its sights on the Air Force, where JPALs, already installed on the service's F-35A, could help take the guesswork out of landings at austere airfields with little infrastructure, and in Read More
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it would permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, the latest gesture by leader Kim Jong Un to revive faltering talks with Washington over his country's nuclear program. Read More
