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Adm. Lisa Franchetti writes the Navy will “face deep strategic constraints” in the future short of any boost to its budget.
By Justin KatzSpace Development Agency’s global mesh network in space is moving forward, with speed
By focusing on delivering minimum viable products, the Space Development Agency is enabling a larger set of suppliers to rapidly field data transport and missile tracking systems.
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Aaron Mehta and Michael Marrow preview the upcoming Air and Space Forces Association conference and break down what you need to know.
By Aaron Mehta
“China is the real star of this show, as it’s showcasing its domestically-produced J-10 fighter aircraft (which Egypt is in discussions to purchase),” Norman Ricklefs, CEO of geopolitical consultancy firm NAMEA Group, told Breaking Defense.
By Agnes Helou
“They’re not going to be motivated to stop,” David Frederick, assistant deputy director for China at NSA, said of the Volt Typhoon hacking group.
By Carley Welch
“I don’t rule out that China did it deliberately, but it is equally possible that the aircraft strayed inadvertently into Japanese air space,” Bonnie Glaser, a top China expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said in an email.
By Colin Clark
While the incident is in dispute, Jennifer Parker, a naval expert at the Australian National University in Canberra, told Breaking Defense, “China is known to employ dangerous and aggressive manuevering as a tactic.”
By Colin Clark
Answers at the edge: Where to find solutions that connect the battlespace
When it comes to a common operating picture, not everyone needs the same equipment. What they need is the same situational awareness.
Russia has the world’s largest icebreaker fleet, and China is investing. Here’s how many icebreakers the US and its allies have – and how they intend to compete going forward.
By Justin Katz
“Look, AUKUS is new. People are coming to terms with it. With anything that’s new, people have anxiety,” Marles said in an interview with Breaking Defense.
By Aaron Mehta
Collin Joh, an analyst at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, noted that this effort is part of a “progression from just bilateral to trilateral, and now quadrilateral maritime cooperative activity (MCA) formats” in the region.
By Colin Clark
“We have to do better in this arena, or we will not be the great naval power that we need to be for the 21st century,” Kurt Campbell told lawmakers today.
By Justin Katz
Boldest among the report’s recommendations is a proposal for what it calls a new “Multiple Theater Force Construct” to fix the current, “out-of-date” version.
By Lee Ferran
Gen. Laura Richardson told the Aspen Security Forum she also needs high-profile visitors to “tell them [local officials] and show them how important they are to this region, and to the hemisphere that we all live in,” or Beijing would step into the void.
By Lee Ferran
“Singapore, however, will have to somehow de-conflict cooperation with the United States with the digital and cyber cooperation programs it also has with the PRC,” Ian Chong, associate professor at the National University of Singapore, told Breaking Defense.
By Colin Clark
Ben Ho in this op-ed maintains that should China deploy flattops in an anti-access Taiwan strategy, it would likely be as “fleets-in-being.”
By Ben Ho Wan Beng