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The Wall Street Journal (paywalled) reports that China's economy is growing at its slowest rate since 1990 — and that those are the... Read More
News coverage of President Donald J. Trump in national media is so reflexively negative that many observers think he has no ideological core.... Read More
The Navy says it may have squeezed out about $150 million per hull in savings as the service closes in on final requirements for a planned... Read More
China's J-20 stealth fighter jet represents a massive milestone for Beijing's armed forces and the first stealth aircraft ever fielded... Read More
The Russian Air Force's bomber fleet is back in the antiship strike business. During the Cold War, the Soviet missile-armed Backfire bomber... Read More
LAS VEGAS — As soon as April, soldiers could be getting a full sidearm kit complete with the Army's newest M17 handgun, along with a... Read More
Discovery of CH-53K King Stallion technical issues and the 'inadequate' speed of their disclosure, has led to a flight test efficiency rate... Read More
The U.S. Army has concluded that Iran was the only victor of the eight-year U/S/ campaign to remove Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and... Read More
The decision not to act is often the hardest one to make—and it isn't always right. In 2007, I watched a string of vehicles pass from... Read More
Victory. That is why we are all here. But, does anyone know what victory in war looks like over the next several decades, or how to achieve... Read More
The Air Force recently canceled its fledgling initiative to prototype a high-energy laser for base and aircraft defense because it is still... Read More
The ascension of Xi Jinping to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has often been posited as a turning point for China's... Read More
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump's broad restrictions on transgender people serving in the military to go into effect... Read More
WASHINGTON — An American service member was killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan on Tuesday in the second United States combat death... Read More
The repairs have been on hold for months while officials try to settle on a contractor for the long and complicated project. Read More
Kemia Hassel, the wife of a murdered St. Joseph Township soldier, saw her first appearance in court Monday after being charged with... Read More
As the partial federal government shutdown enters its fourth week, another group is about to get hit in the pocketbook: retirees of the Coast... Read More
A northwest Ohio manufacturer announced a $700 million contract with the U.S. Army to upgrade 174 heavy armored battle tanks, the Pentagon's... Read More
The reaction to the most recent Army recruitment campaign shows us that mental resilience in the Army is already prone to... Read More
The U.S. Navy's four public shipyards are overwhelmed. Budget documents show that their workload exceeds their capacity by 117 to 153 percent... Read More
In 1921, U.S. Navy submarine R-14 returned to Pearl Harbor under sail, having run out of fuel while on a rescue mission. Nearly a century... Read More
The harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead... Read More
More From Real Clear
RealClearDefense Tuesday
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy is still looking at a variety of options to arm the dormant 155mm Advanced Gun Systems aboard the... Read More
PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md. – Military helicopter designers at Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, will build 25 new AH-1Z Viper attack... Read More
The U.S. Army has confirmed that it is reassessing the size and composition of its often forgotten fleet of logistics ships, landing craft,... Read More
Britain has declared its fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and up-armed Eurofighter Typhoons ready for operations, a major milestone in the... Read More
The destroyer USS Donald Cook has arrived for a port visit in the Black Sea nation of Georgia, as Russia monitors the ship's movements at a... Read More
The US Air Force (USAF) has installed a metallic 3D printed aircraft part on an operational F-22 Raptor fighter.The 3D aircraft printed part... Read More
Key Findings:Located 212 kilometers north of the DMZ, Sino-ri (신오리) is an operational missile base that houses a regiment-sized unit... Read More
The Missile Defense Agency is evaluating nine proposals for space sensor architectures. With $73 million that Congress already appropriated,... Read More
In February, NATO's Defense Ministers will convene a ministerial conference and in April they will do so for Foreign Ministers. These... Read More
The Chinese military has significantly boosted its navy, air force and new strategic units and downsized its land-based army as part of a... Read More
China's technology theft and other unfair economic practices are one of several targets of activity for the new chairman of the Senate... Read More
The year 2018 marked the hundredth anniversary of the the independence of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Since... Read More
THE SECOND visit to the Oval Office by Kim Yong Chol (pictured, left), North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator, was decidedly more low-key... Read More
The space race is on again.In 2003, China sent its first astronauts into orbit around the earth. Since then, China has slowly and resolutely expanded its space program, increasing its clout as an aerospace powerhouse, and a challenger to the space programs of the U.S., Russia, and the European Union. According to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) annual report to Congress on Chinese military de Read More
Russia’s use of cruise missiles during its military operations in Syria generated much media and analytical attention at home and abroad. Despite questions surrounding the military value of such usage of high-precision strikes on targets in Syria, the success of using sea-launched and air-launched cruise missiles (SLCM, ALCM) has influenced aspects of Russia’s naval modernization plans (see ED Read More
