Commander of the Finnish Defense Forces Gen. Janne Jaakkola in this op-ed discusses Finland’s military positioning as part of NATO.
A reprogramming request recently submitted to Capitol Hill by the Pentagon asks for permission to shift an additional $150 million into the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a budget increase of nearly 40 percent.
In this op-ed, Robbin Laird and Harald Malmgren discuss what Putin’s diplomacy with North Korea can mean for the war in Ukraine.
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Given the election year, it’s unlikely a new undersecretary will be confirmed prior to November’s races being decided.
By Justin Katz
A reprogramming request recently submitted to Capitol Hill by the Pentagon asks for permission to shift an additional $150 million into the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a budget increase of nearly 40 percent.
By Michael Marrow and Valerie Insinna
In addition, the US announced it would restart CV-22 flights from Yokota.
By Michael Marrow
The OSP-4 contract vehicle was designed by the Space Force to allow both mature launch providers and promising new companies — that is, those judged as about a year away from launch capability — to vie for individual task orders for missions that don’t require services under the more critical National Space Security Launch program.
By Theresa Hitchens
Leonardo’s new partnership arrives less than a month after it abruptly ended cooperation with Franco-German KNDS to jointly develop the Leopard 2A8 MBT after failing to agree on a mutually acceptable configuration.
By Tim Martin
Breaking Defense observed an exercise by Finnish troops training under the Guard Jaeger Regiment in Santahamina, just a few miles outside downtown Helsinki, specializing in the defense of the capital in case of invasion.
By Lee Ferran
Commander of the Finnish Defense Forces Gen. Janne Jaakkola in this op-ed discusses Finland’s military positioning as part of NATO.
By Gen. Janne Jaakkola
“The fact that we are very keen to keep our unity in Washington … [means] we would not like to see divisional points [made] among allied countries and we know as well that it’s not an easy discussion point for many allied countries,” said Tuuli Duneton, Estonia’s Undersecretary for Defense Policy.
By Tim Martin
In this op-ed, Rebecca Grant of the Lexington Institute argues that the Air Force can’t hit pause on NGAD if the US is to survive the INDOPACOM “Hellscape”
By Rebecca Grant
In this op-ed, Mark Cancian of CSIS lays out how the DoD can overcome countermeasures of precision munitions.
By Mark Cancian
New investment in the Mod 2 design is in keeping with a 10-year Sting Ray MLU program forecast valued by the MoD at a maximum of £1 billion ($1.3 billion) out to 2032.
By Tim Martin
In this op-ed, Robbin Laird and Harald Malmgren discuss what Putin’s diplomacy with North Korea can mean for the war in Ukraine.
By Robbin Laird and Harald Malmgren