“We haven’t seen … the arrival of that many different, I would call ecosystems or capabilities, going that fast together in quite some time,” SOCOM Commander Gen. Bryan Fenton said of new technologies changing the nature of warfare.
"Approximately 90 [percent] of our foundational data is unclassified, which helps us share products more broadly with partners and allies across the globe," a spokesperson for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency told Breaking Defense.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Pyongyang seeks "direct military assistance from Russia to include fighter aircraft, surface-to-air missiles, armored vehicles and ballistic missile production equipment," said Mira Rapp Hooper, the White House's top advisor on the Korean peninsula,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Ankit Panda writes in this op-ed that the proliferation of long-range missiles in the Indo-Pacific may seem like a strategic advantage for different nations, but collectively increases the danger level.
The Defense Intelligence Agency previously took the lead on reporting Russia's use of Iranian weapon systems in Ukraine.
A senior US official said it would be "foolish" to underestimate the number of countries developing defensive or offensive bioprograms.
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
The United States, in a rare mention of nuclear weapons, "reaffirmed its steadfast alliance commitments to Japan and the ROK backed by the full range of U.S. capabilities, including nuclear."
"It is important to keep in mind that while the US and ROK certainly have the right to conduct drills as they see fit, what they have been doing is NOT business as usual," Jenny Town, a Korean analyst at the Stimson Center in Washington, wrote in an email.
Iran has consistently supplied Russia with Shahed-136 loitering munitions for strike missions but a recent UK intelligence update indicated that there have not been any reports of “one way attack” UAV’s being used in Ukraine since February 15.
In a new analysis, Ralph Savelsberg of the Netherlands Defence Academy warns that North Korea's October launch demonstrated the ability to deliver an almost 20 percent greater payload into Guam.
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
South Korea's strategy says the ROK will "nurture a sounder and more mature relationship as we pursue shared interests (with China) based on mutual respect and reciprocity, guided by international norms and rules."
Some 50,000 Wagner fighters are currently in Ukraine, mostly poorly trained convicts, costing over $100 million per month, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
From worries about South Korean troops to a bigger footprint for Japan, here are the must-read stories Breaking Defense's man in Sydney.
The 100th Missile Defense Brigade and the 49th Missile Defense Battalion at Fort Greely train on and operate the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system for exoatmospheric intercepts against ballistic missiles.