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What you may have missed from the last year, and what you need to read as 2023 kicks off.
These 10 stories got widespread attention, from both within the defense community and with a broader readership.
From replenishing weapons stockpiles to exploring lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, Army leaders have a busy year ahead.
For the Defense Department in 2023, the spotlight is its enterprise cloud contract, JADC2 and AI investments.
2023 will bring with it an expectation that Germany and the collection of 19 other NATO countries that committed to increase defense spending after Russia invaded Ukraine, act on those plans.
It may be the beginning of a new era in Australian defense, with plans to buy Abrams tanks and hundreds of Infantry Fighting Vehicles scaled back to free money for weapons designed to deter.
There are a host of open questions bedeviling national and international policy- and law-makers as they struggle to get a better grip on both the explosion of commercial players with innovative ideas for space utilization and the growing military interest in space as a tool of, and venue for, war.
"I think I'm pretty comfortable with where we are on the [fiscal 2024] budget. I think we'll have a good story to tell,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Breaking Defense in a recent interview.
Will a new year and a new Congress bring us the first view of a new Navy?
While China has rapidly built a much more modern military in a remarkably short time, it also faces enormous economic, demographic and national security challenges that aren't always as apparent in Washington.
With all eyes on Ukraine this year, several existing Army weapon lines received renewed interest this year.
In the network world, 2022 saw the return of the (non) JEDI, the bumpy road to JADC2 and real-world lessons from the cyber dimension of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
From Germany's defense investment to the coming expansion of NATO, Russia's invasion sent paradigm-shifting shock waves through Europe.