Our adversaries are improving military training and education, but they may not need a Western-style NCO corps to wage the centralized, long-range warfare they prefer.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Accurate sensors are critical for armor units under fire
Maneuver formations face multifaceted threats that include kinetic force-on-force and non-kinetic effects such as electronic warfare.
A new strategy paper from Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville says forward-deployed Army forces will survive inside Chinese missile strikes and fatally disrupt the PLA’s plans.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Seems Washington wants to stick around” in Afghanistan, said AEI’s MacKenzie Eaglen, “even if veterans themselves are increasingly the ones calling for the full end of troop presence in-country.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“All of the services are pursuing new long-range strike capabilities today, kind of like little kids chasing a soccer ball, and someone needs to ask which investments will maximize our nation’s long-range strike warfighting potential,” said Mitchell Institute’s Mark Gunzinger.
By Theresa Hitchens
Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville and other top Army pilots say these new technologies, tactics, & training will keep aircraft alive against high-tech foes like Russia and China.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
As Air Mobility Command looks to connect its aircraft to high-speed battle networks like ABMS, it is still struggling to get its KC-46 tankers working properly.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The military services are working together on how to use long-range, land-based missiles to destroy enemy anti-aircraft defenses, says the director of artillery modernization at Army Futures Command.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
What weapons and engines will let loyal wingmen drones hit their potential?
In the fourth video in our CCA series, Breaking Defense looks in the details for the future fleet. For the full CCA video series click here.
Research and development spending on hypersonics will nearly double in ‘21, and it will triple for lasers, as the service rushes to deploy combat-ready prototypes.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Naval Strike Missile is one tool that the Navy and Marines are looking to rely on in crafting a response to a new era of long-range threats.
By Paul McLeary
With its trademark tiltrotors too big for the Army’s FARA requirement, Bell is squeezing every ounce of performance out of a helicopter. Will it be fast enough?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
By Paul McLeary
But modernizing the Army will take decades and tough decisions about everything from online propaganda to the National Guard.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
An inside source explains the logic behind the 2020 budget’s most controversial call.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
CAPITOL HILL: Threatened by hundreds of precision-guided munitions now in the hands of Russia and China, the Navy and Marine Corps continue to search for technologies and tactics that will allow them to operate close to the coastline without unsustainable losses. “We’re going to need long-range fires that can operate from a ship or from…
By Paul McLeary
