Only 7 NATO members hit alliance’s 2 percent GDP defense spending target in 2022
Despite the concerning finding, between 2021 and 2022, defense spending across the alliance increased by 2.2 percent in real terms, surpassing an estimated $1 trillion.
With Xi visit, Saudi Arabia seeks economic wins, some US leverage: Analysts
Experts don’t foresee huge defense deals between Riyadh and Beijing, but drones are another story.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
China calls for new ‘strategic guidance’ at 20th Party Congress
China analyst Dean Cheng breaks down the key military aspects of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's statements at the recent Party Congress.
As Pelosi arrives in Taiwan, the big question is if China’s ‘fire’ rhetoric is just hot air
Pelosi's visit is happening at a sensitive time for Xi. The party leadership is meeting this week at a resort in advance of the party congress due to be held this fall. Xi has made "reunification" with the island state a keystone of his rule.
‘Almost a melding’ of US, UK, Aussie services coming: NSC’s Kurt Campbell
The context for President Biden's almost four-hour discussion Monday night with President Xi Jinpeng, Kurt Campbell said, is "that the United States is here to stay in the Indo-Pacific, and we're going to defend and support the operating system that has been so good for so many of us for many years."
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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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
North Korea STILL Not Going To Give Up Nukes, Says ODNI; Sen. McConnell Rises Against Isolationism
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 […]
‘A Chinese Military That is Active Everywhere:’ DIA China Military Power Report
WASHINGTON: China is not ready to wage war far beyond the shores of Taiwan, but it is pressing hard to develop some advanced weapons and increasingly wants to project power beyond its shores with an increasingly capable military. Those are the fundamental conclusions of the Defense Intelligence Agency in a unique report with its roots […]
The US & China: A Colder Peace or Thucydides’ Trap?
As President Trump pushes Beijing on trade and cyber espionage, the United States and China are on a collision course. The U.S. urgently needs a new strategy to avoid the traditional fate of rising and status quo powers: catastrophic war.
Eyeing China, Australia Busily Buys Up Frigates, Drones, and Sub-Hunting Planes
Australia looking to protect its home waters, while sending a signal to Washington that it is one of the allies that is trying to pull its weight in defending itself.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
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.
US Needs New Strategy To Combat Russian, Chinese ‘Political Warfare’: CSBA
If war is politics by other means, then politics is war by other means, Chinese and Russian leaders believe. And political warfare must be conducted with the same ruthless ingenuity as open war because the stakes are equally high: the survival or destruction of the regime.
The Way Ahead To Kim-Trump Summit
While a Trump-Kim summit is a victory for South Korean diplomacy and the policy of maximum pressure, it is also a tremendous victory for Kim Jong Un, and this must be recognized.
Crucial Polish Missile Defense Site Delayed Two Years: MDA
With the Pentagon and White House increasingly worried about ballistic missile threats from "rogue" states and peer competitors, the Polish site is increasingly critical.
The End Of The American Way of War; The Cold War Really Is Over
The American way of war — using overpowering industrial might, crushing firepower, and owning the sea and skies — may have come to an end, a top Pentagon official says. For the past two decades, “the Chinese and the Russians have been working to undermine that model,” said Elbridge Colby, deputy assistant secretary of defense […]