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Defending the Forward Edge: Exercise tests readiness in South Pacific

Defending the Forward Edge: Exercise tests readiness in South Pacific
Defending the Forward Edge: Exercise tests readiness in South Pacific

RI&S uses experimental platform to test JADC2 concepts during Valiant Shield 22

SecDef Esper, Don’t Make Gates’ Mistakes With Night Court

SecDef Esper, Don’t Make Gates’ Mistakes With Night Court
SecDef Esper, Don’t Make Gates’ Mistakes With Night Court

Pentagon officials seek to show they are reorienting to great power competition with China by shifting money under the flat defense topline. The goal is to spend a more defense dollars on high-end capabilities to match the National Defense Strategy instead of pleading for more, new money. The tradeoffs will become very real for members…

McCain Launches Goldwater-Nichols Review; How Far Will He Go?

McCain Launches Goldwater-Nichols Review; How Far Will He Go?
McCain Launches Goldwater-Nichols Review; How Far Will He Go?

UPDATED: With Thornberry Comment Supporting Reform WASHINGTON: Sen. John McCain plans a long-term review of the law underpinning the modern American military, the Goldwater-Nichols legislation that created the current chain of command from president to defense secretary to combatant commanders. “The Committee will be conducting a preliminary examination of the structure, roles, and missions of civilian…

Can NATO Get Its ACT Together? Alliance’s Only US-Based Command Takes On New Role

HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED COMMAND TRANSFORMATION, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: A new era is dawning for NATO — though no one knows quite what it means. Now Allied Command Transformation, the only NATO organization headquartered on US soil, is driving an overhaul of how the alliance trains, strategizes, and shares the burden among its increasingly cash-strapped members in a…