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The words “Space Force” conjure up images of plastoid-alloy-clad soldiers firing ray guns at aliens, but military activities in... Read More
The U.S. Senate on Monday voted to give the military $716 billion for 2019, approving one of the biggest defense budgets in modern... Read More
The Marine Corps has shelved several new, small drones – at least temporarily – amid a Pentagon ban and assessment on the... Read More
On June 9, the Taliban ordered its fighters to “stop offensive operations against Afghan forces for the first three days of... Read More
Almost exactly one year ago, the world experienced two destructive cyberattacks in which offensive cyber tools developed by the National... Read More
The first time Kate Kelly heard the warnings about George Air Force Base, she was a 19-year-old airman just getting settled into the... Read More
The U.S. Senate wants to revoke Turkey's license to buy the jet, while other European governments are looking to get a competitor off the... Read More
"We have high confidence that the fleet's egress systems are capable and the fleet is ready to return to normal flight operations." Read More
The Marine Corps has chosen long-time tank-maker BAE over upstart SAIC to build its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle. A wheeled troop carrier... Read More
The U.S. Navy's latest Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Sioux City, successfully completed acceptance trials in the waters of... Read More
With relations at the lowest point in decades, the United States and Russia have embarked on what appears to be a new Cold War. But this new... Read More
The Air Force is now adding new information about enemy aircraft to the F-35's "threat library" database designed to precisely identify enemy... Read More
China's government is using a multi-pronged strategy to systematically steal advanced American technology as part of economic aggression... Read More
Modernizing military forces is never cheap. Even if buying new equipment will result in lower life-cycle costs, the upfront investment is... Read More
In 1778, Samuel Johnson said that “every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier,” but should that... Read More
The Army is no longer able to conduct large-scale, division- and corps-level combat operations. That's what retired Army Lt. Gen. David Barno... Read More
Introduction: Islam, Fascism, and “Islamofascism”At a surface level, the National Socialists (Nazis) and the Islamic State (IS)... Read More
The officers I teach at Marine Corps University have long absorbed that American power has at least four elements—diplomatic,... Read More
I knew that Socrates had been a soldier, and had a distinguished record in combat in the Peloponnesian War. But I didn't realize that in the... Read More
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Each Saturday, before Bob Dole sets off on his latest vocation, he has cornflakes, a little sugar on top, and a bottle of chocolate Boost.It... Read More
Thousands of jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country remain vacant because VA leaders contend they can't find... Read More
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President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was not his first departure from a key... Read More
If one were to make a list of “what Kim really wants” in his discussions with the U.S., such would be quite... Read More
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The Navy has now issued at least one-fourth of the design work and begun further advancing work on systems such as a stealthy "electric... Read More
The inconsistent security protocols across the federal government's decentralized IT architecture have made its entire information system a... Read More
In the wake of the serious incidents suffered by surface forces in 2017, several commentaries and analyses, including Admiral Phil Davidson's... Read More
A former CIA computer engineer has been indicted on charges he masterminded what appears to be the largest leak of classified information in... Read More
If you thought President Trump was just musing when he publicly broached the subject of a U.S. "space force" in recent months, guess again.... Read More
Trump can order the Pentagon to create a Space Force but only Congress can make it happen.WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday threw... Read More
The Defense Department could soon be assessing the feasibility of permanently deploying U.S. troops to Poland to counter Russian... Read More
As some Gulf and Asian allies consider big purchases of Russia arms, the Senate is set to uphold a law signed by Trump that would slap... Read More
Exclusive: Jens Stoltenberg says U.S. and Europe must work to avoid a breakdown in western unity. Read More
In Washington and the capitals of many other advanced industrial democracies, there appears to be a growing consensus that prevailing... Read More
For a generation, the left promised a different, less confrontational approach to North Korea than the usual suspects on the right. In this... Read More
Today, in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukrainian military forces are holding their positions along lines of contact against... Read More
Despite incidents of violence, opinion on all sides has increasingly converged towards a peaceful resolution to end the ongoing strife in... Read More
It is frequently said that we are experiencing an information revolution. But what does that mean, and where is the revolution taking... Read More
Obviously, Silicon Valley and the Pentagon are out of sync. Meanwhile, China and Russia are setting the conditions within their respective... Read More
This article is the latest addition to the U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Mad Scientist Initiative's Future of Warfare 2030-2050 project at Small Wars... Read More
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Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. is asking General Electric Co. to compensate it for damage caused by flawed workmanship during... Read More
Air Commodore Bradshaw was appointed as Lighting Force Commander, Royal Air Force Marham in April 2017 and he succeeded Air Commodore now Air... Read More
Ask finance ministers and central bankers around the world about their worst nightmare and the answer is almost always the same: Sometime... Read More
The Russian military has released footage from one of its latest missile tests, showcasing a deadly nuclear-capable weapon currently deployed... Read More
The Pentagon agency in charge of accounting for missing Americans troops has yet to receive notice to prepare for the return of remains by... Read More
The Pentagon made it official Monday evening, as the U.S. canceled the upcoming August military drills with South Korea at the behest of... Read More
Veterans are twice as likely as civilians to die by suicide, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday in its latest report on... Read More
The Marine Corps has chosen long-time tank-maker BAE over upstart SAIC to build its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle. A wheeled troop carrier capable of swimming from Navy ships to shore and then driving deep inland, the ACV will replace the aging, ungainly, and under-armored AAV as the spearhead of amphibious assaults. The ability to conduct such landings is the modern Marine Corps' raison d'Ã ªtre â Read More
The inconsistent security protocols across the federal government's decentralized IT architecture have made its entire information system a particularly inviting target for attacks by adversary states and rogue insiders.There are compelling reasons for federal departments and agencies to move from a decentralized, ad hoc IT architecture to a cloud-based architecture. Decentralized systems are espe Read More
The Pentagon agency in charge of accounting for missing Americans troops has yet to receive notice to prepare for the return of remains by North Korea that President Donald Trump called a key success of the Singapore summit."We're standing by [but] we haven't officially been asked to do anything," Chuck Prichard, a spokesman for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), said Monday."This is ou Read More
