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China, even if it rises, does not present...
Bottom line: U.S. foreign policy is broken...
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"We cannot afford a ‘next time we will do better’ mentality," said one Defense Digital Service participant. "I strongly believe a... Read More
Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office are expected to need a six-month stop-gap contract before inking a deal for sustainment... Read More
When the U.S. military was engaged in multiple ground wars in Asia, advocating for a larger ground force didn’t seem like a parochial... Read More
COLOGNE, Germany – NATO’s top general in Europe says alliance members developing sixth-generation military aircraft should... Read More
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden’s nominee for Air Force secretary and six other top Pentagon picks advanced out of the Senate Armed... Read More
The Pentagon wants to put counterterrorism forces in nations neighboring Afghanistan to monitor terrorist activity in that country after U.S.... Read More
Biden administration continues what has become a seven-year annual tradition Pentagon leaders are asking Congress to expand the kinds of... Read More
A day after Joe Biden said the military told him as vice president that global warming represents America’s greatest threat, the... Read More
Pentagon leaders faced tough questions from lawmakers on the Navy’s decision to shelve the development of a sea-launched nuclear cruise... Read More
Administration official says there is no connection between the administrative move and Vienna negotiations The Biden administration lifted... Read More
Kazakhstan’s efforts at rehabilitation and reintegration put Europe to shame. Sabinella Ayazbayeva has had a more eventful life than... Read More
Ammunition maker True Velocity says it can give many guns that fire 7.62x51mm ammunition far better performance with just the swap of a... Read More
In the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union the Arctic was largely a strategic and geopolitical afterthought. Too remote and... Read More
The mission named TacRL-2 is a technology demonstration satellite for the Space Force’s tactically responsive launch program WASHINGTON... Read More
Essential Reading
China, even if it rises, does not present...
Bottom line: U.S. foreign policy is broken...
The list of fatal crashes involving the 55th Wing’s vital RC-135 reconnaissance fleet thankfully is short. But every one of those is... Read More
How do violent extremist groups influence one another? Are once-violent extremists no longer a threat when they exit the U.S. prison system?... Read More
WASHINGTON — A pair of House lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would expedite the visa process for Afghan military... Read More
A hero of the Korean War who went on to mentor and train generations of Army Rangers will receive the nation's highest award for... Read More
President Joe Biden’s negotiations with Republicans, led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., on improving the nation’s... Read More
The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus. The possibility that the pandemic began... Read More
Federal contractors working in the national security field tend to be a discreet lot. Much of what they do is secret, and sharing details too... Read More
The liberal international order envisioned by the victorious Western allies in 1945 is long dead. Indeed, it failed to survive even... Read More
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The modernization of the U.S. Air Force’s bomber branch is gathering pace, with the news that the first two examples of the so-far... Read More
A fictional war scenario showcases how emerging technological capabilities could be used in a future Sino-U.S. military confrontation over... Read More
Over a hundred years after German U-boats first threatened Britain’s maritime lifelines to North America, submarines continue to pose a... Read More
If a conflict in U.S. history ever came with baggage, it has to be the Vietnam War. Although the service and actions of the millions of... Read More
Textron announced its Cottonmouth 6×6 armoured vehicle as an entrant for the US Marine Corps' (USMC) Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle... Read More
Constrained by budgetary limitations, the U.S. Navy can afford either a new fighter, a new submarine, or a new... Read More
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to start several new initiatives to counter China, though details... Read More
Battlefields of the future will require the Army to invest in a mix of energy sources, including jet propellant 8 (JP-8), diesel and... Read More
The builder of the Navy’s Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) has won a $44 million contract to develop an autonomous... Read More
A Senate report says protests and optics weighed on the military. Washington has concluded a news cycle trashing Republicans for voting... Read More
The late head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, was fond of boasting that... Read More
The Air Force won’t retire any more B-1 Lancer bombers until the new B-21 Raider joins the fleet, Lt. Gen. David S.... Read More
There’s not much time left to mitigate the consequences After Sept. 11, 2001, most Americans thought justice and prudence demanded... Read More
Russia has been conducting research and development (R&D) on using nuclear power in outer space for years. On May 22, Alexander... Read More
"We cannot afford a ‘next time we will do better’ mentality," said one Defense Digital Service participant. "I strongly believe a proactive approach is critical, which means finding potential problems and addressing them before they are realized."... Read More
Michaela Dodge, National Institute for Public Policy
Dr. Michaela Dodge is a Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and received her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2019. It has been almost two decades since the U.S. government had an extensive public discussion of the issue of having a nuclear capability to destroy hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs). HDBTs can range from hardened surface bunkers to underground tunne... Read More
Michaela Dodge, National Institute for Public Policy
Dr. Michaela Dodge is a Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and received her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2019. It has been almost two decades since the U.S. government had an extensive public discussion of the issue of having a nuclear capability to destroy hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs). HDBTs can range from hardened surface bunkers to underground tunne... Read More
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