New Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
The United States and the United Arab Emirates held a large exercise, Native Fury, on Monday with troops from both countries operating side by side at Al Hamra Military Base. They practiced clearing and taking a Middle East city with 4,000 U.S. troops from the Army, Marines and Navy.
By Arie Egozi and Colin Clark
“We’re gonna keep them for awhile,” in the wake of a deadly rocket attack on Camp Taji in Iraq which killed two American troops and one British service member earlier this week, the head of Central Command said today.
By Paul McLeary
Hours after the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs Chairman promised action, the US struck five Kata’ib Hizbollah “weapons storage” sites — but the militia’s Iranian backers are likely off the hook, for now.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In an “unfunded priorities” list sent to Congress, the Centcom chief points in the direction of an expanding US footprint in the region.
By Paul McLeary
Getting problem-plagued ballistic missile defense site online is an ever-higher-priority for the Pentagon as Iran and Russia move out on new missiles.
By Paul McLeary
We do not know what caused the missile’s explosion. Israel has taken steps to foil such launch attempts in the past. No one here was prepared to speak on the record about the explosion.
By Arie Egozi
Enterprise-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.
Israeli experts say the U.S realized withdrawing from Iraq would leave policymakers and the military with greatly reduced influence in a region that has seen rapid and extensive Russian penetration into the region.
By Arie Egozi
PRELUDE: Early morning, 0240 Baghdad time on January 17, 2020 (1840 EST 16 Jan 2020), marked the 29th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm. It was a turning point in the conduct of warfare and set the conditions for modern warfare. The recent hostilities between Iran and the United States reinforce the importance…
By David Deptula
If you’re looking for an exigesis of the politics of the conflict between the United States and Iran, read elsewhere. This is an authoritative analysis — based on open source material– of the implications of the Iranians’ use of a Scud missile in the strike against the Al Asad Air Base in reaction to…
By Ralph Savelsberg
Moscow is making sure no one forgets the role it has played in the Middle East, while Beijing searches for inroads in a region President Trump has pledged to leave.
By Paul McLeary
A Special Forces vet returns to the Pentagon to help fill a key commando office that has been without permanent leadership for months
By Paul McLeary
Experts warn that Iran almost certainly now has the cyber tools to inflict physical damage on US critical infrastructure.
By Theresa Hitchens
We asked some of Washington’s best informed and smartest people about the likely consequences of the killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani.
By Colin Clark, Theresa Hitchens and Paul McLeary
We offer this opinion piece about increasing US responses to Iranian aggression just as President Trump has this morning “instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” Of course, we don’t know the crucial rules of engagement that will guide Navy…
By Mick Bednarek