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For many years Tunisia has expressed an interest in improving its security cooperation with Nato, which has been eager to engage more with a... Read More
Laser attacks against U.S. forces have spread out of Africa into the Pacific. U.S. personnel operating in the East China Sea area have been... Read More
Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a $5.6 billion bill to upgrade the country's outdated military equipment, some of which... Read More
How do you stop a Terminator scenario before it starts? Real US robots won't take over like the fictional SkyNet, Pentagon officials promise,... Read More
In his new book When the Center Held, Donald Rumsfeld calls the “successful handling” of the Mayaguez Incident, the last battle... Read More
Theresa May has asked Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary, to justify Britain's role as a “tier one” military power, throwing... Read More
Russia and Iran are “hedg[ing] their bets” by backing the Taliban against other terrorists at the expense of Afghanistan's... Read More
The Honduran migrant caravan — a group of hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants mostly from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who... Read More
Russia's Navy is a highly visible and generally well-understood instrument of Moscow's military power that has been on a... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy could keep its amphibious ships in service for more than 50 years and its Littoral Combat Ships for up to... Read More
(Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force anticipate delivery in October of the first KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, settling a... Read More
The military history curriculum at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College (CGSC) will be gutted in the 2019 academic year. The... Read More
America's military technological advantage is eroding, which degrades the ability of the Department of Defense to counter near-peer military... Read More
How do we take an institution … that is designed to collect sensitive material and incorporate everything else that is out there... Read More
This week, Cambodia revealed that China had given it yet another round of military assistance as part of a visit by its defense minister to... Read More
From Gen. George Washington's 1783 address at Newburgh to Morris Janowitz's The Professional Soldier and contemporary discussions about past... Read More
Soldiers already know what is required: integrate new but mature technologies inside new maneuver formations at progressively lower levels... Read More
Turkey is taking possession of two F-35 aircraft this week, but U.S. lawmakers may yet deny Ankara critical American technology needed to get... Read More
Grand strategy has a bad wrap but it's not the concept's doing. A perception has developed that the National Security Strategy (NSS) and... Read More
China and Russia — the United States' great power competitors — are teaming up to increase their influence in the Arctic, an... Read More
WASHINGTON — As the initial shock of the president's order to create a Space Force wears off, the question of “what... Read More
Air Force leaders have broken their silence following President Trump's order to create a new military service branch for space.Leaders... Read More
With cyber playing a critical role in conflict going forward, the Army has begun to recognize the need to have organic cyber planners within... Read More
Her acting replacement, already on the job, is Maj. Gen. Julie A. Bentz, the administration official said. Bentz has a doctorate in nuclear... Read More
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Each Saturday, before Bob Dole sets off on his latest vocation, he has cornflakes, a little sugar on top, and a bottle of chocolate Boost.It... Read More
Thousands of jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country remain vacant because VA leaders contend they can't find... Read More
He had just completed a stint in the Netherlands, where he worked with NATO officers on the Airborne Warning and Control electronic... Read More
A leader of an emerging white-supremacist group is a Marine veteran who uses his military experience to train other extremist recruits in... Read More
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was not his first departure from a key... Read More
If one were to make a list of “what Kim really wants” in his discussions with the U.S., such would be quite... Read More
The CONOPS development, review, approval, and notification processes were pro-forma and did not reflect the detailed, deliberate planning and... Read More
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The U.S. Senate wants to revoke Turkey's license to buy the jet, while other European governments are looking to get a competitor off the... Read More
"We have high confidence that the fleet's egress systems are capable and the fleet is ready to return to normal flight operations." Read More
The Marine Corps has chosen long-time tank-maker BAE over upstart SAIC to build its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle. A wheeled troop carrier... Read More
The U.S. Navy's latest Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Sioux City, successfully completed acceptance trials in the waters of... Read More
With relations at the lowest point in decades, the United States and Russia have embarked on what appears to be a new Cold War. But this new... Read More
The Air Force is now adding new information about enemy aircraft to the F-35's "threat library" database designed to precisely identify enemy... Read More
China's government is using a multi-pronged strategy to systematically steal advanced American technology as part of economic aggression... Read More
Modernizing military forces is never cheap. Even if buying new equipment will result in lower life-cycle costs, the upfront investment is... Read More
In 1778, Samuel Johnson said that “every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier,” but should that... Read More
The Army is no longer able to conduct large-scale, division- and corps-level combat operations. That's what retired Army Lt. Gen. David Barno... Read More
Introduction: Islam, Fascism, and “Islamofascism”At a surface level, the National Socialists (Nazis) and the Islamic State (IS)... Read More
The officers I teach at Marine Corps University have long absorbed that American power has at least four elements—diplomatic,... Read More
I knew that Socrates had been a soldier, and had a distinguished record in combat in the Peloponnesian War. But I didn't realize that in the... Read More
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The first time Kate Kelly heard the warnings about George Air Force Base, she was a 19-year-old airman just getting settled into the... Read More
The words “Space Force” conjure up images of plastoid-alloy-clad soldiers firing ray guns at aliens, but military activities in... Read More
The U.S. Senate on Monday voted to give the military $716 billion for 2019, approving one of the biggest defense budgets in modern... Read More
The Marine Corps has shelved several new, small drones – at least temporarily – amid a Pentagon ban and assessment on the... Read More
On June 9, the Taliban ordered its fighters to “stop offensive operations against Afghan forces for the first three days of... Read More
Almost exactly one year ago, the world experienced two destructive cyberattacks in which offensive cyber tools developed by the National... Read More
With its decision to acquire the BAE Systems version of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), the U.S. Marine Corps took a big step forward in building a force for the 21st Century. This is one in a series of procurement decisions that puts the Marine Corps at the forefront of multi-domain warfare.The Navy and Marine Corps are acquiring new platforms and systems that will enhance the effectiveness Read More
Almost exactly one year ago, the world experienced two destructive cyberattacks in which offensive cyber tools developed by the National Security Agency were stolen and shared with the public. In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware hit over 300,000 computers in 150 countries. One month later, the NotPetya attack hit the computer systems of companies and governmental entities across the globe causing Read More
The Pentagon made it official Monday evening, as the U.S. canceled the upcoming August military drills with South Korea at the behest of President Donald Trump, as he promised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un when the two met in Singapore.“Consistent with President Trump's commitment and in concert with our Republic of Korea ally, the United States military has suspended all planning for this Read More
