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This week's announcement that the Electric Boat unit of General Dynamics will receive the biggest shipbuilding contract in Navy history... Read More
(Washington, D.C.) The Air Force and Lockheed Martin are now arming the F-22 stealth fighter with more long-range precision attack... Read More
The focus of ground combat operations has shifted dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Relatively few operations now involve the... Read More
Would World War II have taken a different course had Admiral Chester W. Nimitz been in charge at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the... Read More
Changes in how the Navy and Marine Corps fight together could see Marines aboard both military and commercial ships as they traverse crowded... Read More
(Reuters) - The U.S. military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya's capital last month was in fact shot down by... Read More
The military thinks a smaller bomb is essential for deterring—and fighting—adversaries.The Pentagon reaffirmed its determination... Read More
The retired Navy admiral currently serving as the acting under secretary of the Army will be nominated for the permanent position, the White... Read More
After two decades of cuts and high op tempo, the Air Force budget must be rebalanced to fund growth and modernization.In the years following... Read More
The desperate efforts of the USS Yorktown's crew to keep their carrier afloat at the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway yielded valuable... Read More
Childhood trauma can be amplified by military service, studies show; emphasis on providing consistent mental-health careCombat experience is... Read More
At first, President Trump's statements questioning whether Amazon should get a major Pentagon cloud computing contract looked like his usual... Read More
The Marine Corps is building new information command centers that will help commanders better understand the information environment.These... Read More
Violence remains a risk as parties resist demands for deeper change, USIP experts say.These are Iraq's biggest protest demonstrations in the... Read More
For this year's Army-Navy game, the Midshipmen have their new — err, old — look.No. 24 Navy will wear uniforms inspired by the... Read More
Shortly after the Navy Midshipmen and Under Armour released their throwback-inspired uniforms for the Army-Navy Game, the Army Black Knights... Read More
A fire broke out on a Navy amphibious assault ship Thursday night, leaving 11 sailors with minor injuries.Sailors aboard the amphibious... Read More
To ensure its Wisconsin shipyard can meet the US Navy (USN) requirement to build two guided-missile frigates (FFG(X)) per year to compete for... Read More
In a shattered villa south of the Libyan capital that serves as his field headquarters, a middle-aged militia commander named Mohammed... Read More
While it is true that U.S. military spending far exceeds all other nations, including rivals China and Russia, James Miller and Michael... Read More
Apart from these and other books, a couple of scholarly articles in the Journal of Military History, by Nicholas A. Lambert5 and Jason... Read More
The “maximum pressure” policy against the Islamic Republic of Iran is one-year old. So too, ironically, is the Trump... Read More
More From Real Clear
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy is unclear how it will proceed with its next generation of aviation combatants following the introduction... Read More
The U.S. Navy and Air Force are teaming up to rapidly develop a battle network that can link together Air Force and Navy assets, an effort... Read More
Saab has flown the first series-production Gripen E aircraft for Sweden, the company announced on 3 December.An image of aircraft 6002 flying... Read More
On a sunny day in early November, a platoon of U.S. Marines alongside a battalion of Spanish Infanteria de Marina launched from a Spanish... Read More
Maintaining the U.S. natsec industry's technological edge will require "a more coordinated and collaborative effort among all... Read More
Iraq is suffering from protests, ISIS threats and the need to find a new prime minister after Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned earlier this week,... Read More
U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management and Australian shipbuilder Austal have made a formal bid for the Philippines' largest... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the Navy returns to holding large-scale fleet exercises in summer 2020, the operations will involve information... Read More
By shooting a missile into one of its own satellites in March, India upped the ante. The immediate intention, suggests Jeffrey Caton, a... Read More
Long ago an inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi advised supplicants to know thyself. Chinese sage Sun Tzu outdid the Greek... Read More
Some worry that companies won't spend own money on research, may not compete for important programs.Four years ago, Section 804 of the... Read More
ORLANDO, Fla. — Special Operations Command wants to work more closely with the conventional force on simulation technologies, according... Read More
On Oct. 27, the world learned of a raid that culminated in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. U.S. special forces and... Read More
To keep up with the changing nature of war and in response to nations such as China and Russia restructuring their militaries around a... Read More
Vladimir Putin wishes he had an alliance like NATO. The alliance provides a remarkably resilient framework in which nations and leaders who share common values can pursue collective security interests yet still engage in contentious arguments and disagreements about important issues, without seriously eroding the cohesion that is NATO’s center of gravity.Leaders of NATO’s 29 member countries m Read More
The focus of ground combat operations has shifted dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Relatively few operations now involve the defeat of a technologically and doctrinally similar force, leading to the conquest or liberation of territory. Preparation for these operations remains important, but ground combat branches also have a host of other priorities, some (including counter-insurgency Read More
