“These are the kinds of discussions that we need to have to try to avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation,” a senior defense official told reporters of the call between Joint Chiefs Chairman CQ Brown and his counterpart in the People’s Liberation Army.
By Lee FerranModernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Months of Chinese harassment of Philippine vessels culminated in early December with up to 135 Chinese ships swarming the Philippines around Scarborough Shoal.
By Colin Clark
Even before the big announcement from the heads of state in March, 2023 has been filled with AUKUS news.
By Justin Katz
The biggest strategic shift in the Indo-Pacific was clearly the combination of China’s economy faltering at the same time as turmoil roiled the top echelons of the Chinese Communist Party and its government.
By Colin Clark
“The key word here is persistence,” study author Masao Dahlgren told Breaking Defense. “How do we get persistence over the regions we care about? That hasn’t been as explicitly put into prior work until now. This report puts into sharp relief.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The US and its allies managed to block a move by China to open up the 6 GHz band Beijing uses for 5G mobile wireless communications to global use — a move that would have empowered Chinese telecom firms such as Huawei.
By Theresa Hitchens
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
“I don’t care what it takes to get after the threat. That’s really the cultural change that we’re embarking upon,” SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein told the Space Force Association’s inaugural Spacepower conference.
By Theresa Hitchens
The joint effort to get a sixth-gen stealth fighter in the air by 2035 is to be headquartered in the UK, while a Japanese official will be the first program leader.
By Michael Marrow
“We still do hold a technological edge, but it’s a smaller edge than we used to have,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. David Snoddy. “We’re now focused on, let’s bring that margin back.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse has warned industry about the significant espionage threat from China and others: “The target is you.”
By Lee Ferran
Air Force Special Operations Command said that “preliminary investigation information” into a Nov. 29 crash that killed eight “indicates a potential materiel failure caused the mishap, but the underlying cause of the failure is unknown at this time.”
By Lee Ferran and Michael Marrow
Total US arms transfers for fiscal 2022 topped $50 billion, up nearly 50 percent from prior year.
By Lee Ferran
Lockheed Martin Australia announced a $74 million AUD facility that will be modeled to some degree on its Lighthouse facility in Virginia, where it runs modeling and simulations, as well as wargames.
By Colin Clark
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By Breaking Defense