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U.S. Air Force fighters and Army helicopter gunships have attacked and killed more than 220 Taliban forces in Ghazni over... Read More
Royal Australian Navy is in the process of its biggest refit since WWII, a power-projecting drive aimed ultimately at countering China's... Read More
WASHINGTON — Huntington Ingalls Newport News is gearing up to start a yearslong overhaul of the U.S. Navy carrier John C.... Read More
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. – The Navy should accelerate the production of its two newest class of amphibious ships to avoid... Read More
A Russian satellite made a series of maneuvers in October 2017 that was “inconsistent" with its expected behavior and marks “a... Read More
Modern warfare is trending toward the use of unmanned vehicles, especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Although UAVs are considered the... Read More
The Coast Guard should reevaluate deck officer training in light of mistakes made on the merchant ship. Read More
The Air Force will soon operate F-35s with fast-evolving collision-avoidance technology able to help fighter jets avoid ground collisions by... Read More
REDSTONE ARSENAL, HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: It took a minor miracle of scheduling for me to catch up with Wally Rugen in his half-furnished office... Read More
There's a saying on Wall Street that if a merger doesn't raise antitrust concerns, then it probably isn't worth doing. Mergers usually are... Read More
Unless you have been on another planet over the last week, you have doubtless heard that the Trump administration announced its intention to... Read More
National Defense magazine asked research laboratories involved in national security programs: “What is your organization's number... Read More
More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide... Read More
The Pentagon should take into account the cybersecurity capabilities of defense contractors in addition to cost and performance measures when... 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 four-month WESTLANT 18 deployment will see the supercarrier sail to the eastern coast of the United States to begin trials that will pave... Read More
U.S. Special Operations Command is working with the same company to builds the Army's newest handgun to upgrade the M4A1... Read More
The Coast Guard's fast response cutter Forrest Rednour (WPC-1129) arrived Saturday at its new California home, marking the first of four of... Read More
REDSTONE ARSENAL: The Army wants its Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft to stick close to the ground troops, Brig. Gen. Wally Rugen told me... Read More
The U.S. Army has officially terminated the 'Punisher.' The XM-25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System was designed to engage enemy... Read More
The U.S. Marines hope to retrofit roughly 100 F/A-18C/D aircraft with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars as the service... Read More
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Aug. 7 that Iraq will abide by U.S. sanctions on Iran to protect Iraq's own interests. Abadi... Read More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a second contract to develop a new hypersonic weapon that would move five times the speed of... Read More
Telling Sailors to “say no” rings hollow if leaders won't accept “no” for an answer. The Navy needs a better system... Read More
The Army's fiscal year 2020 budget plans would cut funding for a number of programs to free up money for its top six modernization... Read More
China is ramping up its maritime combat readiness, analysts said in response to official reports that the People's Liberation Army had... Read More
The Pentagon's latest bug-bounty contest continues a successful run of hack-the-military efforts.The Pentagon is opening a new front in... Read More
The Defense Innovation Board stated that what the Pentagon has is not a problem innovating, but, rather, a problem adopting innovations. A... Read More
WASHINGTON — There are no estimates yet for what it will cost to stand up a Space Force as a separate military service. The Pentagon... Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump signed the $716 billion defense policy bill for fiscal 2019 into law at the Army's Fort Drum... Read More
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China has condemned the $716 billion defense spending bill signed by U.S. President Donald Trump Monday, claiming it “exaggerated... Read More
The U.S. military occupation formally ended only years later in 1951, but the bases remained as a friendly Japanese government took over.... Read More
Late last week, less than 100 miles from Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, Taliban forces launched a major assault that overwhelmed the... Read More
President Donald Trump has signed into law a defense policy bill that will hold up the transfer to Turkey of 100 F-35 fighter jets, deepening... Read More
The nearly successful drone assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month highlighted yet again a... Read More
The Pentagon has a new goal aimed at protecting its $100 billion supply chain from foreign theft and sabotage: to base its weapons... Read More
At the Pentagon they are fond of saying, “Hope is not a strategy.” But with little to show in the way of tangible battlefield... Read More
The Pentagon should take into account the cybersecurity capabilities of defense contractors in addition to cost and performance measures when awarding contracts, a U.S. government-funded think tank recommended in a report published Monday. 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
OMAHA: Gen. John Hyten, the man who might wage nuclear war should North Korea strike, says the prospects for “the potential denuclearization” of North Korea are moving “in a positive direction” since the Singapore summit.“From my perspective, the belief in a potential denuclearization of North Korea has changed,” Hyten told me at a press roundtable during Strategic Command's annua Read More
