The United States must do more to counter China’s “aggressive and coercive actions,” which Biden’s presumptive Defense Secretary calls “an increasingly urgent challenge to our vital interests in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world.”
By Colin ClarkEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
Upcoming Pacific Defender wargames will held showcase Army’s investments in long-range missiles, missile defense, logistics, and information warfare, said Gen. James McConville, the Army Chief of Staff.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“It’s really important that we don’t let these issues get swept up in … political transitions between administrations,” warned the head of Air Force Global Strike Command.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“I think global integrated operations is really the next big ‘advantage space’ for the Department of Defense,” says Maj. Gen. John Nichols.
By Theresa Hitchens
Mossad officials, retired Israeli officers, and cybersecurity experts were frequent visitors to the tiny Gulf state long before yesterday’s agreement to open official diplomatic ties.
By Arie Egozi
The data show the deployment of an amphibious ready group was effective, as was the movement of an aircraft carrier strike group. Deploying ground forces and land-based air forces in significant numbers also were effective attention-getters.
By Barry Blechman
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
“Our mission in the Space Force will become to protect that commerce, and I like to talk about it in terms of protecting the ‘celestial lines of commerce,’ or the space lines of commerce,” says Col. Eric Felt, head of the Space Vehicles Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
By Theresa Hitchens
‘Lead from behind’ has failed in Libya. The US must lead from the front to prevent a destabilizing deal between rival factions dominated by Russia and Turkey.
By Jonathan Ruhe
Esper said “I’ve issued no orders to withdraw from the Republic of Korea” — but rotational deployments may replace units permanently stationed there.
By Paul McLeary
The HASC readiness subcommittee also wants to create a comprehensive quadrennial review of what it’ll really take to supply and sustain the global force.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“This is a just a DoD product. The 2011 National Security Space Strategy was very much a DoD-IC product,” one baffled national space security insider said.
By Theresa Hitchens
The service’s new AimPoint plan builds very different forces for Europe and the Pacific – but new high-level artillery HQs are central to both.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Wars and pandemics, great destroyers of the status quo, often generate enormous societal change. An outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease in the early 20th century, for example, gave the internal combustion engine a permanent lead over steam-powered automobiles. The First World War saw more improvements in aeronautical engineering and airplane manufacturing than the previous decade. The…
By Dean Cheng
Low-key deployments by citizen-soldiers have strengthened ties with 89 nations – but some crucial partners are missing.
By Bradley Bowman and Thomas Pledger