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The Navy has more women seeking to serve on submarines that it has room for, according to both the Atlantic and Pacific submarine force... Read More
The rush nearly 20 years ago to buy the fighter of the future exposed fundamental shortcomings in defence acquisitions.In a startling... Read More
A defense industry source told Russian news outlet Izvestia last month that the S-500 recently underwent field testing in Syria, where the... Read More
In March 2019, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled an Indo-Russian joint venture formed with an objective to manufacture an assault... Read More
An inadvertent effect of the Trump administration's personnel management has been to make the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's class of... Read More
Army officers bucking for a battalion command will soon have to go through a five-day assessment course aimed at evaluating their mental and... Read More
The Marine Corps may one day launch crawling unmanned robots from ships to clear paths through deadly minefields for approaching assault... Read More
The U.S. intelligence community is updating its assessment of space warfare capabilities of Russia and China as military commanders express... Read More
A recently fired commander wasn't bitter about what had happened, and so decided to offer some help to his replacement. He told the incoming... Read More
I was convinced the deaths of my friends in combat were my fault. It took me years to realize this feeling had a name: survivor guilt. Read More
Fiscal 2019 proved to be safer for the Air Force than the year before, with nine fewer of the most destructive mishaps compared to fiscal... Read More
The U.S. Air Force announced plans to test a secure data link between its F-22 and F-35 stealth fighter planes without identifying the... Read More
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists is raising concerns about how climate change and soaring temperatures are going to impact... Read More
The last few years have seen a subtle transition in how the U.S., as the world's dominant arms exporter, markets to the world.Consider what... Read More
The Navy isn't anti-intellectual—it just acts that way. Those were not the exact words of a high-level task force charged with... Read More
At least eight 2nd Infantry Division soldiers died by suicide in nearly three years, from May 2016 to April 2019. The number is not... Read More
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Bottom Line: While many Americans maintain...
President Trump has so far prudently avoided...
Americans at high schools with JROTC programs are more than twice as likely to enlist in the armed forces, according to Army Cadet Command. Read More
A military to-do list for 2020: eliminate passwords, add end-to-end encryption, counter look-alike accounts.The U.S. is now just a year from... Read More
Fourteen years after Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy sacrificed himself while attempting to save his fellow troops during Operation Red... Read More
OCT 22, 2019 - The first hangar built specifically for the U.S. Air Force's new KC-46 Pegasus mid-flight refueling tanker is open and ready... Read More
This is a question that keeps me up at night. Are we prepared to defend the homeland and defeat our enemies at any location around the world?... Read More
Along with slow growth and high-tech oppression, pork shortages may make the Chinese masses squeal. Read More
The United States on Monday sanctioned Iran's Armed Forces General Staff (AFGS) and nine individuals responsible for implementing the... Read More
ISIS will eventually be defeated. But we are fighting the jihadi movement, not a single jihadi group. And the jihadi movement is just one... Read More
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While I was conducting research for a book on the United States 10th Mountain Division, which has fought in some of America's most ferocious... Read More
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be capitalizing on ways immigration can destabilize Western countries. Read More
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Although hypersonic missiles are a top modernization priority for the Pentagon, there are no efforts underway to arm such weapons with... Read More
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Russia's massive Tsentr-2019 wargame in September included a first: a test of small drones that found and bombed their targets with minimal... Read More
We may speculate about the changing character of conflict, but the enduring nature of war is violence and an inevitable consequence of that... Read More
A military to-do list for 2020: eliminate passwords, add end-to-end encryption, counter look-alike accounts.The U.S. is now just a year from the 2020 presidential election. In 2016, we saw foreign interests influence the outcome of a presidential race when Russian hackers infiltrated the computer networks of officials in both parties, and then selectively disseminated the emails of Democrats. Is t Read More
The U.S. intelligence community is updating its assessment of space warfare capabilities of Russia and China as military commanders express concerns about advances in the adversaries' ability to jam, ram or destroy satellites in orbit. Air Force General John Hyten requested the National Intelligence Estimate before he left his prior command at the U.S. Strategic Command, and it “is being worked Read More
The Russian Navy's latest warship, Gremyashchiy, will carry the Zircon hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, its captain and Russian President Vladimir Putin said during Putin's visit aboard the vessel October 31, according to Russian state media. The warship will be launched later this year and join the Pacific fleet. The missile is seen as a natural counter to the U.S. Navy's Aegis air defense s Read More
