“I think the countries to the north of Afghanistan such as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are also going to be worried about the flows of refugees and perhaps fighters to the north. All of them will see what happens after we leave, how the United States postures itself, and then they’ll decide what to do," Gen. McKenzie said this week.
Former CSAF Gen. David Goldfein, who like many fighter pilots isn't a big guy, was passed over as CJCS because he didn't "look macho enough for Trump," said one former Pentagon insider.
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
"I think global integrated operations is really the next big 'advantage space' for the Department of Defense," says Maj. Gen. John Nichols.
"This is foundational to who we are," Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.
With a two-year budget deal the Pentagon is getting what it wanted: budget certainty. But that certainty comes at a cost.
Katie Wheelbarger, the acting assistant Defense secretary for international security affairs, said Thursday that “Russia’s great power status still remains largely aspirational.”
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
"No enemy says, 'I'm ready to go to Phase 2. You guys ready?'" Allvin said to laughter from the audience. "We have to be more nuanced. We need to be less mechanistic in our execution of these."
Sen. James Inhofe remains cool to the Space Force and most of his colleagues on a key Senate panel sound like they're right there with him.
The relationship went through a messy ending. Will the president now try and give Mattis the Rex Tillerson treatment?
WASHINGTON: After two years of reassuring US allies that Donald Trump’s America would not abandon them, Jim Mattis finally had enough. Even before Trump was sworn in as president, the announcement that he would pick Mattis as his Secretary of Defense was met with delighted relief “from the right, from the left, and from overseas.” […]
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
HALIFAX: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs expressed frustration Saturday over the refusal of some tech giants to work with the US military. “I have a hard time with companies that are working very hard to engage in the market inside China,” said Gen. Joe Dunford at the Halifax Security Forum, “then don’t want to work […]
WASHINGTON: Stop refueling Saudi warplanes as they fly to and fro, bombing, strafing and generally laying waste to Yemen. Freeze the sale of offensive weapons to the Kingdom of Saud. But the sale of defensive weapons is another matter, Sen. Jack Reed told reporters this morning. The danger posed by Houthi missiles and other threats […]
WASHINGTON: The days when America spoke of eliminating nuclear weapons are over, faced with Russian, Chinese and North Korean moves to build, boost or rebuild their nuclear forces. That’s the most essential message of the leaked Nuclear Posture Review. (Kudos to my colleague Ashley Feinberg at Huffington Post for getting this one.) The Pentagon immediately issued […]
PENTAGON: It’s always difficult to tell when the military is covering its tuckus and when it’s just being careful. So when the outgoing head of the Air Force press desk, Col. Patrick Ryder, told reporters this afternoon that the service had not made any decision about whether to go ahead with a combat test of […]