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Last week, Army Secretary Mark Esper delivered what sounded like the definitive service position on planned upgrades to the Chinook... Read More
The Russian Navy with state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom decided canceling planned service-life extensions and modernization on its... Read More
China showed off the first of its new generation of guided missile destroyers on Tuesday as President Xi Jinping reviewed a major naval... Read More
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 jet, the world's costliest weapons program, just got even costlier. The estimated total price for research... Read More
The U.S. Army says it will meet its readiness goals by 2022, but young sergeants in most infantry and close-combat units don't know how to... Read More
The Marine Corps, like the Navy and Air Force, is facing a massive shortage of pilots. The service is short a full quarter of its required... Read More
Generally speaking, airborne troops are the elite of a country's military. They comprise paratroopers who parachute from fixed-wing aircraft... Read More
China's navy has significantly expanded its marine corps, which is now operating in its own unit, according to the state broadcaster, though... Read More
Future great power competition will step up demand for aerial refueling capacity and require air cargo crews to operate in contested... Read More
As more sea lanes open and stay open longer due to “dramatic changes in the physical environment of the Arctic,” the Coast Guard... Read More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Thetis (WMEC-910) is halfway through a 90-day mission to Africa's Atlantic coast and already the crew has helped... Read More
This is the first question, in a five question interview with author Robert Greene.Joe: You've spent decades researching and writing about... Read More
Mexican troops questioned two U.S. soldiers along the two countries' border earlier this month. The American soldiers were on the U.S. side... Read More
A Navy spokesperson confirmed that NCIS is investigating the device found aboard the USS Arlington, currently in port in Greece. Read More
A former employee of a Chinese airline pleaded guilty Wednesday to acting as agent of the Chinese government for smuggling packages on... Read More
Lawmakers want the Pentagon to take another look at scores of soldiers who may have been denied the nation's highest military honor due to... Read More
On Friday, April 19, the Modern War Institute posted an opinion piece by Army PAO Chase Spears, examining the responsibilities of the media... Read More
Managing child care is a problem for every parent. But it's daunting for dual-military families and often is worse for Reservists.If you want... Read More
It has been nearly 60 years since the philosopher and historian Thomas Kuhn wrote his influential book The structure of scientific... Read More
It's time for Congress to fix a longtime wrong: legislation that requires survivors of deceased military members to forfeit part or all of... Read More
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China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force recently unveiled the first high quality images of the J-11D “4++ generation”... Read More
China's state broadcaster has aired footage of the country's new aircraft carrier, revealing details for the first time of the home-grown... Read More
The Marine Corps is fielding thousands of its new M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles to grunts across the service and, for now, it's not buying... Read More
The British Army is planning to upgrade just 148 of its 227 Challenger 2 tanks, according to The Times.The proposed cut to the armored force... Read More
The U.S. Air Force for months has been working to redesign gear and flight suits used by female pilots after many years of ill-fitting... Read More
WASHINGTON — Boeing received a $605 million contract for the production of the Air Force's 11th Wideband Global Satellite Communication... Read More
The scope of changes that the U.S. Air Force must undertake to meet the direction of the National Defense Strategy is difficult to overstate.... Read More
LEAP OF FAITHHubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy TragedyBy Michael J. MazarrThe operative word in the title of... Read More
The Army and the Air Force are crafting a new combined air-ground combat attack strategy to improve warfare networks, perform long-range... Read More
As a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the East China Sea last month, Chinese vessels shadowed it on the high seas, service officials... Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence has accused Huawei Technologies of being funded by Chinese state security, The Times said on Saturday, adding... Read More
WASHINGTON: After months of no-comment, the CEO of Bell Flight's parent company revealed that Bell will offer a conventional helicopter for... Read More
As a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the East China Sea last month, Chinese vessels shadowed it on the high seas, service officials... Read More
In the Wall Street Journal of April 17* Jonathan Burks, former Chief of Staff to Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the House of Representatives,... Read More
Late last month the lights went out in Venezuela and fingers were immediately pointing and blame cast for who may be responsible. Was it internally initiated through a failed coup, or government ordered to prevent escalation of dissent in the streets? Was shoddy infrastructure to blame, or is there a kernel of truth to some of the finger-wagging towards the U.S.? As tensions between the embattled Read More
HighlightsWith the U.S. strategic emphasis moving from counterterrorism to competition with China and Russia, the nature of U.S. engagement is changing again.Confrontation between the United States, China and Russia will deepen in many countries, with the great powers relying on proxies to wage conflict short of war.The use of proxies will mitigate the potential for direct conflict between the gre Read More
The independent pollster Levada Tsentr regularly tests Russians’ attitudes toward former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and it recently published a report showing that love, admiration and respect for Stalin is now the highest it has been since 2000. Some 70 percent of Russians currently see Stalin in a positive light, expressing love and admiration for him, while only 19 percent express negative Read More
