From Swedish entry into NATO to Air Force budget constraints and their future plans, here’s what to expect in 2024 and much more as we reflect on major developments in the defense world. View eBook here.
By Breaking Defense
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By Lee Ferran
Once entry has been approved, Stockholm is widely expected to make a substantial military contribution to NATO, especially across air and sea domains.
By Tim Martin
Keep your eyes on the Second Scarborough Shoal and other atolls in the South China Sea, where China has pressed an increasingly aggressive and dangerous campaign.
By Colin Clark
“And so I think, as you see new missions come on, you can presume that that means more Guardians to perform those missions, and we’ll have to adjust the strength going up,” said CSO Gen. Chance Saltzman.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Air Force has big plans for 2024, but lawmakers could throw a wrench into them.
By Michael Marrow
The conflict in Gaza has drawn the US Navy’s surface forces into an extended missile and drone defense mission to support the Israeli Defense Forces.
By Justin Katz
The National Institute of Standards & Technology is about to release its long-awaited “post-quantum encryption” algorithms. Then comes the hard part: installing them everywhere.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Here’s what to watch for in the defense network, cyber and innovation space in 2024.
By Jaspreet Gill
A trio of new longer range missiles could also be in soldiers’ hands over the next dozen months.
By Ashley Roque
Even if the Gaza conflict were to stop tomorrow, the international community has been shown how vulnerable vessels in the Red Sea can be — lessons already learned in the Arabian Gulf and off the coast of east Africa.
By Agnes Helou
Russia also turned to the Middle East in November, pitching up at the Dubai Air Show to drum up business, and though no orders or contracts were publicly announced, an industrial presence featuring some of the country’s leading defense companies made a lasting impression.
By Tim Martin
The Space Force has made some visible progress in its “pivot” towards resiliency, but acquisition reform remains a hard slog.
By Theresa Hitchens
From more sophisticated systems like the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft to cheap kamikaze weapons, the drone had its heyday in 2023 — and promises, coupled with AI, to be a much bigger part of future warfighting.
By Michael Marrow
