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For all the triumph of America's new planes and tanks during World War II, a silent reaper stalked the battlefield: accidental deaths and... Read More
The Russia Navy's most powerful warship, the battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, may be about to be relaunched. It is part of a massive... Read More
The mission begs an important question: Why didn't the SU-30s land and refuel on Subi Reef? Surely one of the main purposes of the artificial... Read More
Both sides of Oz politics love what submarines offer Australia.Subs are a fundamental element of the bipartisan consensus on defence. But the... Read More
Great-power competition is not a future challenge — an abstract phenomenon to plan and prepare for. It is already taking place today.... Read More
Pentagon officials working on Defense Secretary Mark Esper's cost-cutting review of the department have proposed slashing military health... Read More
And it's not just fake news about political candidates, gun control, race relations or other hot-button items meant to divide Americans.... Read More
The U.S. Army is recycling demilitarized rocket motors and repurposing the materials to make test missiles and it's saving the service money,... Read More
Industry is bracing for surprise entries and team changes in the US Army's up-gunning competition with at least one big switch up: Pratt... Read More
US intelligence agencies assessed that Iran offered bounties to Taliban fighters for targeting American and coalition troops in Afghanistan,... Read More
What are we giving up if we don't return to the office after COVID? A world in which face-to-face interaction becomes the exception rather... Read More
The “factory” that pumps out AI tools for the Pentagon is about to get a new tool of its own, one that leaders of the Joint... Read More
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Bottom line: The U.S. Constitution provides...
Bottom Line: In a survey of Americans on...
The House adopted by voice vote an amendment to the fiscal 2021 Defense appropriations bill Thursday that would effectively bring an end... Read More
Investigators at the National Archives have taken steps to make their research resources more available to federal and local law enforcement... Read More
Washington accuses Chinese diplomatic missions of economic espionage and visa fraud; Beijing threatens retaliationThe U.S. ordered China to... Read More
The novel coronavirus pandemic has claimed another big event for runners.Marine Corps Marathon officials announced Monday that the... Read More
July 30 saw the launch of the Mars 2020 mission, the latest to the Red Planet. The mission aims to explore the Jezero Crater region with the... Read More
An invasion would have meant massive casualties. War would have dragged on until 1947 or later.The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,... Read More
The free world is observing the passing of Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's first democratically-elected president. He was widely considered “the... Read More
illiam of Ockham would like a word with those who worry more about a potential Russian invasion of the Baltics than ongoing interventions in... Read More
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The U.S. Navy has stood up an aggressor squadron to train its submariners, as well as anti-submarine forces, about what to expect from their... Read More
Everything that followed—the disarmament of Japan, the reform of its economic, political, and social institutions, the adoption of a... Read More
Growing demands on the Navy as part of the Trump administration's pressure campaign against China come as the military branch is addressing... Read More
On 6 June 2020, without fanfare, the chief of the French army, General Thierry Burkhard, released his 10-year strategic vision for the... Read More
For most of this year, Pentagon planners have been developing a new joint war-fighting concept, a document meant to guide how the Defense... Read More
The Pentagon is in the early stages of replacing the troubled Lockheed Martin F-35's autonomous logistics system with a new, cloud-based... Read More
The U.S. Navy's top acquisition official said the Columbia ballistic-missile submarine is on track and ready for a fiscal... Read More
The Corps is calling it quits on its year-round presence in Norway, opting for more spread out and potentially larger deployments... Read More
Chief Master Sgt. JoAnne Bass on Friday became the 19th chief master sergeant of the Air Force at a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in... Read More
China's dreams of regional and global hegemony require a dominant People's Liberation Army that faces the dilemma of accruing military power... Read More
On the future battlefield, “data is the holy grail,” says Brig. Gen. Robert Collins. But for the Army, like King Arthur and... Read More
The military reported more than 1,400 new coronavirus cases this week, surpassing 33,000 total, according to the Pentagon on Friday.Just a... Read More
The Navy's primary cyber outfit released its strategic plan for the next five years, a document that calls for using the service's networks as a warfighting platform.The document, released by 10th Fleet/Fleet Cyber Command in late July, covers the range of responsibility of the command, which is the only fleet with a global footprint in all the military domains, to include cyberspace operations, s Read More
The mission begs an important question: Why didn't the SU-30s land and refuel on Subi Reef? Surely one of the main purposes of the artificial islands is to enable China to project air power into the South China Sea to assert its territorial and jurisdictional claims, including the possibility of establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the Spratlys? Read More
Summary: The Russian Army's artillery forces played a decisive role in the Third Chechen War due to the effectiveness of the Reconnaissance Fire Complex. Empowered by Target Acquisition Companies that employed Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Electronic Warfare, the Russian Army showcased a devastatingly fast artillery targeting cycle. Read More
