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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 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.
From worries about South Korean troops to a bigger footprint for Japan, here are the must-read stories Breaking Defense’s man in Sydney.
By Colin Clark
Support for the AUKUS security partnership “dramatically outweighs criticism, with about half of US and Australian respondents and 28 per cent of Japanese respondents in favour of Australia having nuclear-powered submarines while only 18-19 per cent of respondents in the three countries were against it.”
By Colin Clark
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
The Army wants to be a major logistics player in the Pacific. The secretary of the Army thinks commercial industry has tools to help the service do that.
By Andrew Eversden
The Army’s 4th Security Force Assistance Brigade has been training Ukrainian troops in Germany since May.
By Andrew Eversden
With AI and computer vision, almost any platform can be autonomous
The use of computer vision and perceptive autonomy can have a profound impact on speeding the Observe, Orient, Decide and Act (OODA) loop.
Above everything else there is the fundamental discussion of how will the rising power of China and the still mighty but relatively fading power of the United States compete.
By Colin Clark “It can be difficult to make these systems work in practice. I expect that it will take quite a bit of money, time and focus to get a system like this actually operating,” said David Brewster, a senior fellow at Australian National University’s National Security College.
By Colin Clark
The command investigation report is heavily redacted but mostly blames the crew for failing to uphold standards, take action.
By Justin Katz
A commander for the task force as been chosen, but no final basing decision has been made.
By Andrew Eversden
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With primary missions such as airborne early warning, comms and data networking/relay, maritime surface search, EW, and persistent offensive air support, the Marines’ MUX capability will provide an agile and lethal system of systems against peer or near-peer threats.
By Breaking Defense
“Our objective is not to change China but to shape the strategic environment in which it operates, building a balance of influence in the world that is maximally favorable to the United States, our allies and partners, and the interests and values we share,” the strategy states.
By Valerie Insinna
The treaty faces steep odds for formal ratification, but some lawmakers are latching onto the military’s focus on the Indo-Pacific as a pretext.
By Justin Katz
The Air Force’s change in Japan could usher in a new strategic stance, says RAND’s David Ochmanek.
By David Ochmanek