Saturday, April 21
Set this view as default?
Yes
No
Set this view as default?
Yes
No
AM Update
CAPITOL HILL – Navy and Marine Corps leaders are mulling if and how to up-gun the San Antonio-class LPD Flight II ships; whether to buy... Read More
Donald Trump is turning out to be the best thing to happen to the defense industry since Ronald Reagan left town. On Thursday of this week,... Read More
The U.S. Air Force is set to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to an airman for the first time since the Vietnam War,... Read More
The Russian Navy took delivery of an upgraded Project 667 BDRM Delta IV-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines... Read More
The U.S. has the most dominant military in the world, but recently, experts have been warning that it has a weakness: its reliance on... Read More
On April 19, 1775, the first battles of the American Revolution were fought in Lexington and Concord between soldiers of the British Empire... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Army is almost keeping pace with its recruiting goals halfway through the fiscal year despite keeping a lid... Read More
Expeditionary economics is an important line of effort in all five kinds of irregular warfare. RAND argues, for... Read More
Army planners say they don't want to have to wait for a routine maintenance cycle to spot potential problems in an aircraft. They also don't... Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Coast Guard will receive two small satellites this summer that will assist it in search-and-rescue... Read More
FORT BELVOIR: To train its troops for future wars, the US Army wants to build the ultimate video game. To get that game ASAP,... Read More
MAJ. MONIQUE HASSAN'S stint as an Army surgeon was a halting journey of idle deployments, operating once or twice a month, to a solo... Read More
In a March–April 2015 Military Review article, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster wrote about a handful of fallacies that plague thinking... Read More
President Donald Trump's announcement of a US-led strike on suspected Syrian chemical weapons sites last week signaled a changing of the... Read More
Similar to past administrations, the current White House, supported by Congress, is developing a layered defense system to maximize... Read More
Teams of Navy cyber warriors have joined the front lines at sea by deploying on both Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups in an... Read More
In July 2017, a group of nine Chinese students and faculty from Huazhong University of Science and Technology participating in a summer... Read More
Contrary to the belief of many analysts, the United States has an industrial policy that often puts government in the position of picking... Read More
The pilot's voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended with 149 people on board.“Southwest 1380, we're single... Read More
Department of Defense (DOD) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials confirmed Monday that California will not take part in President... Read More
The Trump administration recently issued a flurry of moves to restore reciprocity in trade relations with China and safeguard national... Read More
Can we at least agree that President Trump's decision to strike three chemical weapons facilities owned and operated by Bashar Assad... Read More
"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.”-- Mark Twain“Why did the lessons of Stuxnet, Wannacry, Heartbleed and... Read More
President Donald Trump is considering launching air strikes on Syria, if his own tweets are to be believed – an action that could show... Read More
More From Real Clear
RealClearDefense Friday
Raytheon has completed developmental testing of the 250-pound GBU-53B Small Diameter Bomb II.The new glide bomb, which incorporates a... Read More
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has stopped taking deliveries of AH-64E Apache attack helicopters from Boeing because the service... Read More
While the Corps is nearing a contract award date for the new amphibious combat vehicle, or ACV, don't expect the assault amphibious... Read More
Lt. Gen. John M. Murray and Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski testified before the House Armed Services Committee's tactical air and land forces... Read More
After years of subsidizing the Israeli defense industry, the U.S. is now insisting Tel Aviv spend all the military aid it gets from America... Read More
Bottom Line: The Kremlin employs an array of often overlapping and competitive security and intelligence services to create multiple... Read More
CUTTING ROOM FLOOR COMEY: You may have heard that former FBI Director James Comey has a book out. Titled “A Higher Loyalty,”... Read More
CAPITOL HILL — The Navy anticipates returning to a ready state by 2022, top leadership said today, after being gutted by nearly a... Read More
OriginsU.S. Army Special Forces was created in 1952 under the auspices of the Army Psychological Warfare office as a discreet response to... Read More
The eventual winner of the Pentagon's two-year contract to provide extensive cloud services isn't a lock to be awarded two extensions that... Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Coast Guard will receive two small satellites this summer that will assist it in search-and-rescue missions in remote polar regions.The Polar Scout spacecraft were built under the auspices of the Air Force's Operationally Responsive Space Office — recently renamed the Space Rapid Capabilities Office — as part of a program to prove that it could rapidly deploy sp Read More
Teams of Navy cyber warriors have joined the front lines at sea by deploying on both Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups in an effort to keep pace with newly emerging enemy attacks and attempted intrusions. As many as 17 Defense Cyber Operations teams are now deployed around the globe, Vice Adm. Michael Gilday, Commander, US Cyber Fleet Command, told Congress. Read More
HighlightsAfter decades of lamenting the Korean Peninsula's division, South Koreans increasingly regard reunification as unnecessary and undesirable.The split between North and South Korea along the 38th parallel, though seemingly arbitrary, follows approximately the same border that divided the peninsula's northern and southern kingdoms in antiquity.The division reflects the reality of contempora Read More
