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Bottom line: The U.S. should give up efforts...
Bottom line: The United States is doing too...
Saturday, May 15
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YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Navy MQ-4C Tritons will join Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drones on a temporary deployment to Japan... Read More
WASHINGTON — Boeing will be late to deliver the two new Air Force One planes currently under construction, the U.S. Air... Read More
Putin is pulling troops back from the land border, but getting more adventurous on the waters. Ukrainians breathed a collective sigh of... Read More
"I don't sense that the lack of that milestone is doing anything other than providing a launching point for criticism of the program," JPO... Read More
After graduating from West Point in 1971, Sen. Jack Reed, the Rhode Island Democrat now in the first year of his fifth term, jumped out of... Read More
For the past two decades, U.S. Special Operations Forces have deployed to some of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on the planet to... Read More
The U.S. Army is experimenting with launching the Area-I small Agile-Launch Tactically Integrated Unmanned System drone, or ALTIUS, from an... Read More
Having formally launched the development of its third generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, France is embarking on a... Read More
The Navy is already seeing benefits from using digital twins to test out upgrades and fixes to ships in the fleet, and it hopes to expand the... Read More
Introduction When U.S. troops leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the American war will have lasted nearly two decades and spanned four... Read More
Raytheon Technologies RTX +2.5% celebrated its first birthday on April 3. The company came together in the biggest aerospace... Read More
The 2018 US National Defense Strategy (NDS) signals a major shift for the US military from irregular warfare toward developing... Read More
The number of Afghan districts controlled and contested by the Taliban has nearly doubled since early 2018, according to an ongoing study of... Read More
Imagine the following scenario: A group of US military and diplomatic officials meet to discuss a named operation. During the meeting, a... Read More
Pipelines, like cables and substations, are the type of dull, critical infrastructure that Americans don’t think about until,... Read More
The Biden administration has its sights set on a June summit with Russia. Given the new lows plowed in the bilateral relationship — so... Read More
Essential Reading
Bottom line: The U.S. should give up efforts...
Bottom line: The United States is doing too...
The long-awaited, long-delayed final pullout of U.S. and NATO forces after 20 years of war in Afghanistan has finally begun. President Joe... Read More
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of motorcyclists will gather in downtown Washington on May 30, shutting down the streets around the... Read More
WASHINGTON – The Defense Department rejected a request from organizers of a traditional Memorial Day weekend motorcycle ride in the... Read More
Washington (CNN) Federal agencies are investigating at least two possible incidents on US soil, including one near the White House in... 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
With the US and Iran now engaged in a diplomatic process, strong constituencies in Washington are advocating for or against... Read More
The Navy appears poised to sunset the Mk VI and Cyclone class patrol craft programs in rapid succession, with no replacements on the horizon.... Read More
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An open letter by former officers calling the president a “Marxist” dictator is a greater threat to U.S. democracy than the... Read More
Full ship shock trials on the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) are set to begin within weeks. Commissioned in 2017, but... Read More
The Marine Corps took out a moving ship by firing a Navy missile at it from the back of an unmanned vehicle on land -- a... Read More
Our Nation is in deep peril. We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776.... Read More
Fresh from Brexit, Britain bulks up military to strengthen special relationship with U.S. LONDON—The most powerful U.K. fleet to... Read More
The Air Force is preparing to unveil a new 30-year fighter force design that includes at least two all-new fighters, a much greater use of... Read More
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — The Pentagon is betting big that laser weapons, once firmly confined to the realm of science fiction, will... Read More
The ongoing tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas have brought to the fore the Iron Dome, a Star Wars-looking interceptor system... Read More
Americans, according to recent polls and surveys, increasingly view China as a leading threat to the United States. This... Read More
A naval-centric strategy will protect liberty, keep the global commons free, and shift boots-on-the-ground duties to allies To retain... Read More
In their recent introduction to the Irregular Warfare Initiative, Jacob Shapiro and Patrick Howell propose that a combination of... Read More
A walking trip with friends reveals the deeply American appeal of independence—and the truth about how much we need one another. A few... Read More
Raymond: The Space Force and the Air Force are “actively working” on concepts for the deployment of GMTI satellites WASHINGTON... Read More
High costs and concerns about affordability threaten the future of the F-35 joint strike fighter, the program executive officer for the... Read More
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matt Petersen, in a recent article in Strategy Bridge, points out that conventional military responses to provocations in the... Read More
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger's announcement comes amid the radical changes he is making in how the Corps equips itself, and... Read More
Pipelines, like cables and substations, are the type of dull, critical infrastructure that Americans don’t think about until, suddenly, they must. On May 7th a cyber-attack prompted Colonial Pipeline, a firm headquartered in Georgia, to shut down a tube stretching from Texas to New Jersey that supplies about 45% of the petrol and diesel used on the east coast. Federal officials confirme... Read More
While the U.S. military likes to talk about being in an era of great power competition, it acts like there is only one real challenger: China. The armed forces are moving to reorganize and re-equip themselves to meet the specific dictates of potential future crises and conflicts in the Indo-Pacific region. Each is seeking to stake a claim on future resources and the prominence of their roles in co... Read More
While the U.S. military likes to talk about being in an era of great power competition, it acts like there is only one real challenger: China. The armed forces are moving to reorganize and re-equip themselves to meet the specific dictates of potential future crises and conflicts in the Indo-Pacific region. Each is seeking to stake a claim on future resources and the prominence of their roles in co... Read More
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