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It may be the beginning of a new era in Australian defense, with plans to buy Abrams tanks and hundreds of Infantry Fighting Vehicles scaled back to free money for weapons designed to deter.
By Colin Clark“The impossible takes a little longer” – Sustainment & support solutions
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The war in Ukraine (and subsequent delivery of billions of dollars in air defense equipment, munitions, drones, guns and other weaponry) also prompted a major realization: The Pentagon and defense industry’s ability to rapidly mobilize to produce munitions at the pace that would be needed during a full-scale war has atrophied.
By Valerie Insinna
“This appears to be a breakthrough moment, placing China more explicitly and centrally in the rationale for an unprecedented military expansion of post-war Japan,” said John Blaxland, professor at Australian National University’s Strategic and Defense Studies Center.
By Colin Clark
“I’m a Star Trek fan, so I’m optimistic,” said former NASA official Mike Gold about the Artemis Accords facilitating space cooperation for terrestrial rivals.
By Theresa Hitchens
What Beijing may actually learn, Frank Kendall feared, was that “if we’re going to go and do an act of aggression, we have to do it in a way which [is] much more decisive.”
By Lee Ferran
“What we’re looking at here, it raises some questions, I think, about their intent,” a senior defense official told reporters.
By Valerie Insinna
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Preparing for a competitive peace with China is more nuanced and complicated than preparing for conflict, argues the Center for Maritime Strategy’s Benjamin Mainardi.
By Benjamin Mainardi
A leading UK think tank says the British Navy should offload some anti-access/anti-denial operations to regional partners in order to maintain commitments elsewhere.
By Tim Martin
China analyst Dean Cheng breaks down the key military aspects of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s statements at the recent Party Congress.
By Dean Cheng
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The new National Defense Strategy keeps the Pentagon’s focus locked on China
The 2018 strategy “said we are worried about Russia and we’re worried about [China]. And I think one of the things we did as we were going through our assessment of the security environment was actually see that those needed to be looked at a little bit differently,” a Pentagon official said.
By Valerie Insinna
With this Party Congress under way in Beijing, Xi Jinping will put in place China’s political and military leadership for the next five years, writes Dean Cheng.
By Dean Cheng
After the White House released strategy for the far north, Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of NORTHCOM/NORAD, said the US isn’t “organized, trained and equipped” to operate there quickly.
By Theresa Hitchens
A Ministry of Defense source told Breaking Defense that the Americans are especially concerned about the leakage of sensitive data about cyber capabilities, mini-satellites and electronic warfare systems.
By Arie Egozi
Twenty acquisition experts argue that the US can’t beat China at its own centralized, top-down game – but we can harness American innovation in new ways.
By Christopher Zember, Dinesh Verma and Bill Rouse