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President Joe Biden has tapped Lt. Gen. James Mingus to succeed George as the next Army vice chief of staff, but a political logjam has drawn a cloud over the entire confirmation process.
By Ashley Roque
“So we don’t have nearly what we had at the heart of the Cold War. Now you add that we’re giving a lot of munitions away to the Ukrainians — which I think is exactly what we need to do — but now we’re getting dangerously low and sometimes, in some cases even too low that we don’t have enough,” said Gen. James Hecker.
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Though the delay does not fundamentally threaten Sweden’s membership, it could raise concerns among NATO partners that Turkey will use it as a bargaining chip to elicit new political or military concessions.
By Tim Martin
“What we’ve really been trying to wrestle with inside of CDAO is not to over centralize because the department is so diverse and distributed and so large, that we want innovation to happen at the edge,” said Margaret Palmieri, deputy chief digital and AI officer.
By Jaspreet Gill
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Tamaki Tsukada, chargé d’affaires at the embassy of Japan to the US, downplayed the tussle over a Pacific NATO office but said Indo-Pacific democracies and Western nations must tighten their own ties.
By Justin Katz
Autonomy changes everything about combat engineering
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said that when he meets US President Joe Biden today, he will “raise” a request for long range weapon supplies, though did not mention any weapon specifically.
By Tim Martin
Pulsar-based PNT could be used in cislunar space — where the Space Force already is eyeing future operations — or farther out into the solar system where GPS signals do not reach, explained Paul Ray, NRL’s head of high energy astrophysics and applications.
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Joint Declaration signatories will provide long-term, bilateral security commitments for Ukraine, with the aim of building a Ukraine that can defend its territorial sovereignty both today and in the future,” according to a UK foreign ministry statement.
By Aaron Mehta
Air Force Gen. CQ Brown received praise for his career while fielding some culture war questions from Republicans, and separately indicated he would not work for a defense contractor after serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
By Michael Marrow
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President of Microsoft Federal Rick Wagner has “decided to leave the company,” a spokesman confirmed to Breaking Defense.
By Jaspreet Gill and Ashley Roque
While the agreement comes with a number of gifts to Ukraine, including the promise to waive standard requirements for NATO membership in the future, it falls well short of the goal set by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that NATO members lay out a clear path forward for his country to join the alliance.
By Tim Martin
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Iranian activity on the water has become increasingly aggressive and the US needs to adapt to this new reality, write two former heads of US Naval Forces Central Command and two experts from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
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