What Are The Best Ways To Shield Taiwan From A Hungry China?
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.
US Must Relearn How To Contain China: Gen. Murray EXCLUSIVE
“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.”
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Winning the cognitive domain — A methodology built for democratic constraints
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
China—A Deadly ‘Infinite Game’: Army Chief McConville
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.
Special Ops Aren’t A Substitute For Strategy
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.”
Intel Still Needs Humans In Age Of AI: Lt. Gen. Potter
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.
AI In The Grey Zone: Afghan Lessons For Great Power Conflict
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.
Satellites at the center: Inside the Pentagon’s next-gen space architecture
From emerging data networks to missile tracking and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together essential reporting on the evolving role of satellites in national security.
COVID-19: Army Futures Command Takes Wargames Online
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.
Persistent Regional Drones Could Deter China, Russia: CSBA
"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.
Infinite Games & War By Other Means: Ryan McCarthy
The Army Secretary is optimistic the service can balance its expensive modernization objectives at the same time it deters conflict with China.
CSIS Bad Idea: Assuming the ‘Small Wars’ Era is Over
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.
Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare
These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.
Fog Of Information War: Army Asks Civilians, Allies For Aid
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.
Air Force Joins Army Parachuting Into InfoWar; Creates New Unified Subcommand
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.
How To Wage Global Cyber War: Nakasone, Norton, & Deasy
The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.