April All-Domain Test Postponed; AF Keeps Flying The Globe: Goldfein

April All-Domain Test Postponed; AF Keeps Flying The Globe: Goldfein
April All-Domain Test Postponed; AF Keeps Flying The Globe: Goldfein

The Air Force’s global air mobility operations — in support of the other services to deliver spare parts, as well as helping the Department of Health and Human Services cope with the Coronavirus pandemic by delivering test kits — continue. says Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein.

Army Adding New Arms Stockpile In Europe: Gen. Perna

Army Adding New Arms Stockpile In Europe: Gen. Perna
Army Adding New Arms Stockpile In Europe: Gen. Perna

To deter Russia and China, the Army is building new prepositioned equipment sets for Europe and studying new stockpiles for the Pacific.

AI & Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame

AI & Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame
AI & Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame

A simulated infantry platoon, reinforced with drones and ground robots, repeatedly routed defending forces three times its size — without losing a single human soldier. Would this work in real life?

First Multi Domain C2 Exercise Planned: ‘ABMS Onramp’

First Multi Domain C2 Exercise Planned: ‘ABMS Onramp’
First Multi Domain C2 Exercise Planned: ‘ABMS Onramp’

The Army is contributing Long-Range Army Fires, troops on the ground, and Sentinel radar. The Navy is bringing F-35Cs and a destroyer; and the Air Force will bring F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.

Israel Tests New Air-Ground Tactics Vs. Islamic Jihad

Israel Tests New Air-Ground Tactics Vs. Islamic Jihad
Israel Tests New Air-Ground Tactics Vs. Islamic Jihad

The Israeli Air Force just wrapped up a “Blue Flag” wargame with the US & European allies and a real war with Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

EXCLUSIVE Marines Tested Commandant’s New Vision In Largest Marine Exercise Since Cold War

EXCLUSIVE Marines Tested Commandant’s New Vision In Largest Marine Exercise Since Cold War
EXCLUSIVE Marines Tested Commandant’s New Vision In Largest Marine Exercise Since Cold War

In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing “what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”

US Forces Untrained, Unready For Russian, Chinese Jamming

US Forces Untrained, Unready For Russian, Chinese Jamming
US Forces Untrained, Unready For Russian, Chinese Jamming

Training for electronic warfare threats is too easy, leaving troops dangerously unready for great power conflict. Scenarios are so unrealistic that one officer called them “garbage.”

Artificial Intelligence Will Detect Hidden Targets In 2020 Wargame

Artificial Intelligence Will Detect Hidden Targets In 2020 Wargame
Artificial Intelligence Will Detect Hidden Targets In 2020 Wargame

The Army has lots of ideas for AI. But it has to implement them without overwhelming troops or the network with too many apps and too much data.

Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare

Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare
Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare

These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.

Massive NATO Wargame Seeks To Shore Up Fraying Alliance

Massive NATO Wargame Seeks To Shore Up Fraying Alliance
Massive NATO Wargame Seeks To Shore Up Fraying Alliance

More collective defense cooperation will be on display at the massive AUSA 2019 conference, attended by 92 different nations, including the chief generals of 13 armies.

Target, Kaliningrad: Air Force Puts Putin On Notice

Target, Kaliningrad: Air Force Puts Putin On Notice
Target, Kaliningrad: Air Force Puts Putin On Notice

The threat of long-range missile launchers in the Russian enclave is driving the Air Force to develop new tactics for multi-domain attack and dispersed defense.

Army Multi-Domain Wargame Reveals C2 Shortfalls

Army Multi-Domain Wargame Reveals C2 Shortfalls
Army Multi-Domain Wargame Reveals C2 Shortfalls

In a massive simulated conflict, the human players adapted rapidly to futuristic technologies and tactics. But their command-and-control software couldn’t keep up.

A Secure Network Is Not Enough, Cyber Wargames Show

A Secure Network Is Not Enough, Cyber Wargames Show
A Secure Network Is Not Enough, Cyber Wargames Show

If a hacker shuts off a base’s electricity or stops spare parts from arriving on time, they can sabotage a military mission without ever attacking a military network.

Beyond Chinook: Army Secretary Challenges Industry To Revolutionize Heavy Lift

Beyond Chinook: Army Secretary Challenges Industry To Revolutionize Heavy Lift
Beyond Chinook: Army Secretary Challenges Industry To Revolutionize Heavy Lift

A light scout and a mid-size transport remain Army aviation’s top two priorities, Secretary Mark Esper said, but industry needs to start thinking about the next heavy-lift aircraft and stop fighting against cuts to the venerable CH-47.