The trick will be to avoid “a situation in which China believes that it has no alternative but to act,” says RAND’s Michael Mazzar.
By Colin ClarkDriverless systems are ready for the next gear
Robotic missile batteries maneuver and fire faster than crewed systems, keeping operators at standoff distances.
“The Chinese see competition as a whole of government effort [and] they’re actually pretty good at it,” the Army Futures Command Chief told us. “We’re way out of practice.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Everything from social media to military advisors to open war is a potential tool of great power competition, Gen. James McConville writes — and the Army plays a vital role across that entire spectrum.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Artificial intelligence can’t prepare an in-depth assessment of de-escalation options or build relationships with foreign allies who have sources Americans don’t, said the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intel.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Artificial intelligence developed to hunt terrorists can help track Russian and Chinese targets as well – especially amidst murky, chaotic conflicts in the “grey zone” between peace and open war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
While the pandemic’s halted field exercises, tabletop wargames can continue long-distance. The catch? Getting classified bandwidth so you can discuss specific military capabilities.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The art of the possible in autonomous ground vehicles
The Diamondback ground robot can even launch and retrieve drones.
“With only limited warning, Beijing or Moscow could exploit their
time-distance advantage to seize allied territory before the United States and its allies could respond, thereby creating a fait accompli that would be difficult to reverse after the fact,” CSBA finds.
The Army Secretary is optimistic the service can balance its expensive modernization objectives at the same time it deters conflict with China.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Intended as a prudent reprioritization, the dramatic shift in demand for more “great power gurus” threatens to shelve the experience and institutional knowledge accumulated over the last two decades.
By Alexandra Evans and Alexandra Stark
These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. The hard part of Multi-Domain Operations isn’t hypersonic missiles or robotic tanks. It’s getting civilian agencies and foreign allies to fight disinformation — long before the shooting starts.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Air Force wants to develop information warfare capabilities to “deter malign activities from [the] information warfare level all the way up to conflict,” says Air Combat Command head Gen. Mike Holmes.
By Theresa Hitchens
The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Overused and overstretched in the “global war on terror” since 9/11, Special Operations Forces need Biden to give them a break so they can refocus on Russia, China, and the “grey zone.”
By Stewart Parker and Ari Cicurel