US needs to ‘start from scratch’ to rewrite Foreign Military Sales process: CENTCOM chief
US partners in the Middle East "have real security needs. If we don't fill them, China will fill them," Gen. Michael Kurilla said.
US partners in the Middle East "have real security needs. If we don't fill them, China will fill them," Gen. Michael Kurilla said.
“So this is kind of walking us back towards this model that we had during the Cold War, where we know each other, we train together, we're building the team in peacetime and in preparation for deployment,” a senior Air Force official said.
The new contract has a one-year based period and five option years.
The move comes as any further Ukraine aid on Capitol Hill is snarled by yesterday's votes to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House.
"Our objective during this live fire exercise was to shoot down UAS from dawn to dusk," Col. Robert McVey told Breaking Defense.
The head of US special ops in the Pacific suggested some operators are struggling with a less direct mission, though USSOCOM chief Gen. Bryan Fenton told Breaking Defense that's not something he's seen.
Andrew Moore founded startup Lovelace AI and had testified before Congress about DoD's lack of urgency when it came to actually implementing AI and machine learning in the field.
"When it comes to digital warfare, practice makes perfect, and we cannot begin practicing soon enough," writes Schuyler Moore, Chief Technology Officer of US Central Command.
Lt. Gen. Erik Kurilla could take the helm of US forces in the Middle East, but at a time when European and Asian crises dominate the security conversation.
Kurilla currently serves as command of the Army's 18th Airborne Corps.
Egypt’s geo-strategic location and status as largest Arab power makes it a vital partner to the U.S. military, even with Egyptian diversification policy that includes acquiring Russian jets.