“As we step back and hand full primary responsibility for Iraq’s security to the Government of Iraq and the brave people of Iraq, US and Coalition forces stationed across the region will remain ready to respond to any ISIS threats that arise,” CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said.
A senior AFRICOM official told Breaking Defense the command is still looking to shore up ISR capabilities after the 2024 Niger exit.
Demand signals from leadership are shaping investments in design, engineering and manufacturing.
Days after the US killed a suspected militant leader in Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister called for a "quick" timeline for US and coalition forces to leave.
US Air Forces Central released video footage of the “reckless, unprovoked, and unprofessional behavior” after a Russian official seemed to attempt to blame American forces.
“My assessment, and we have some evidence to support this, is that as Russia and Iran have pulled themselves closer together, that there is interest on both sides to push us out of Syria, to put a pressure campaign on us to have us leave,” a senior defense official said today.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi had led the insurgent group since ISIS's founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a similar US raid in Syria in October 2019.
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Terrorist groups have evolved in the past two decades, some growing powerful enough that they are now seeking to transform into political actors.
American leaders have reached “out to the Taliban who are actually providing the outer security cordon around the airfield, to make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us and we will continue to coordinate with them as they go forward,”
While Israeli sources fear China has military ambitions in Syria, the issue of Chinese intentions there is a subject of intense debate among experts.
''As we look at the lethality, precision and mobility requirements as examples, we absolutely have to develop them so that they can compete and win with Russia and China,” SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke says.
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
“The US is doing far more than its allies in coming to grips with causing civilian harm,” a human rights NGO representative who has met with Pentagon leaders said. Still, the gap between government estimates and those from groups on the ground is often wide.
“In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central Command.
WASHINGTON: The Intelligence Community does not agree with President Trump that North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat.” We know that because Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Senate Intelligence Community today that Kim Il Sung’s country is “not likely to give up” all its nuclear weapons. Here’s our story two years […]
The release of the 2020 defense budget is still over a month away, and it's already been a wild ride. A look at what has happened, and what might happen next.