One-stop shopping for Breaking Defense’s roundup of stories you may have missed from 2021, and what to be thinking about in 2022.
By Breaking Defense
What you may have missed from the last year, and what you need to read as 2022 kicks off.
By Aaron Mehta
Expect the political battle over the island nations like Fiji or the Solomons to be a big part of Chinese-American geopolitics in the new year.
By Colin Clark
Its unclear how much the Pentagon is spending on JADC2 and it needs to provide examples of progress next year.
By Andrew Eversden
The Pentagon has long talked up its pivot to the Indo-Pacific. What does that actually look like?
By Justin Katz
In 2022, the Pentagon will need to see real movement on acquisition reform to reduce long understood vulnerabilities that have been essentially ignored for many years.
By Theresa Hitchens
A Russian invasion of Ukraine could derail the Defense Department’s planning.
By Valerie Insinna
Here’s the key Army storylines we’ll be tracking at Breaking Defense next year.
By Andrew Eversden
US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust.
By Theresa Hitchens
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By Justin Katz
The military focused its efforts on networked warfare and the US government responded to cyberattacks.
By Andrew Eversden
New capabilities that will transform an Army balancing tight budgets in 2021.
By Andrew Eversden
In 2021, Air Force laid a path for big changes coming down the line in 2022 and beyond.
By Valerie Insinna
Among all the space action over the past year, AFRL’s push to expand military space operations to cislunar space — the vast volume of space between the Earth’s outer orbit and that of the Moon — and beyond has been a gift that keeps on giving.
By Theresa Hitchens
