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Monday, August 17
How the Dumb Design of a WWII Plane Led to the Macintosh
Cliff Kuang, Wired
Esper Eyes $2.2B Cut to Military Health Care
Lara Seligman & Dan Diamond, Politico
Russia's Giant Battle Cruiser Will Return
H I Sutton, Forbes
Fake News Is Wreaking Havoc on the Battlefield
Gina Harkins, Military.com
U.S. Intel: Iran Paid Bounties to Taliban for Targeting American Troops
CNN
The Great Fishing Competition
Lisa McKinnon Munde, War on the Rocks
U.S. Army Building Zombies. (No, Not the Brain-Eating Kind)
Jen Judson, Def. News
You Can't 'Zoom' Trust
James Stavridis, Proceedings
Why Doesn't China Deploy Fighter Jets to the Spratly Islands?
Ian Storey, Diplomat
The Strange Submarine Saga: Vital Yet Vexed
Graeme Dobell, ASPI Strategist
New Partnerships Formed in Quest to Snag Stryker Up-Gunning Deal
Jane's
The Pentagon's AI Factory Gets a Powerful New Tool
Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Saturday, August 15
The Navy Now Has a Submarine Aggressor Unit
Joseph Trevithick, The War Zone
The Dangerous Illusion of Japan's Unconditional Surrender
Marc Gallicchio, FP
To Get Tougher on China, Trump Needs U.S. Navy, Which Is Straining
Wall St. Jrnl.
The French Army's Strategic Vision
Ben McLennan, ASPI Strategist
Pentagon’s New War-Fighting Concept Takes Shape
Aaron Mehta, Defense News
Pentagon Rethinks Troubled F-35 Logistics System
Lee Hudson, Aviation Week
Navy Program Review: Columbia SSBN On Track
Richard R. Burgess, Seapower Mag.
USMC Announces End to Year-Round Deployment to Norway
Philip Athey, MC Times
Chief Bass Becomes 19th Chief Master Sergeant of USAF
Stephen Losey, AF Times
Assessing the Chinese PLA's Surreptitious AI Build-Up
Richard Tilley, Divergent Op.
Can Army Intel Data Feed The Kill Chain?
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Breaking Defense
33,000 Service Members Have Contracted Coronavirus
Caitlin Kenney, Stars & Stripes
Friday, August 14
Russia’s Stealth Fighter Finally Starting to Look Dangerous
Alex Hollings, Sandboxx
Japan Wants De Facto ‘Six Eyes’ Intelligence Status
Rieko Miki, Nikkei Asian Review
Japan May Scrap Plan to Buy U.S. Global Hawk Planes
Japan Times
B-21 Bomber Program Survives Pandemic Disruptions
Valerie Insinna, Defense News
Federal Appeals Court Rules Male-Only Draft Constitutional
Rebecca Kheel, The Hill
Adding Sensors Saves Ammo, Army Network Testers Find
Patrick Tucker, Def. One
An Arms Race is Brewing in Orbit
The Economist
A Plan to Turn Military Bases Into 'Sandboxes' for 5G
Will Knight, Wired
Brown Outlines Leadership Style, Expectations as Chief of Staff
B. Everstine, AFM
The Scowcroft Model: An Appreciation
Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs
Rightsizing the Afghanistan Mission
Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution
The New Strategy From Navy’s Cyber Command
Mark Pomerleau, C4ISRNET
Thursday, August 13
RQ-170: The Air Force's Secret 'Beast of Kandahar'
Alex Hollings, Sandboxx
B-2s Deploy to Diego Garcia
Brian W. Everstine, Air Force Magazine
USAF Helo Took Ground Fire Over Virginia; Crew Member Injured
A. Horton, WaPo
Army Testing New Air Defense System, Laser Weapons
Christen McCurdy, UPI
Applied Doctrine: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Daniel Breeden, USNI Blog
Trump Weighs Replacing Esper at After Election
Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg
Taiwan Says Discussing Purchase of U.S. Mines, Cruise Missiles
Reuters
Israel, U.S. Test Ballistic Missile Defense System
Jerusalem Post
Congress Has Secretly Blocked U.S. Arms Sales to Turkey for Years
Defense News
In the Arctic, Look to the Coast Guard
Walker D. Mills, Proceedings
Conflict With Small Powers Derails U.S. Foreign Policy
Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs
Navy Bolstering Cybersecurity for Unmanned Vessels
Mandy Mayfield, Natl. Defense 
Wednesday, August 12
B-21 Stealth Bomber Is "Starting To Look Like An Airplane"
J. Trevithick, War Zone
Nine Reasons Congress Should Nix the Air Force's F-15EX
John Venable, Def. One
South Korea Plans to Build F-35B Aircraft Carrier
Xavier Vavasseur, USNI News
The War that Never Was?
James A. Winnefeld & Michael J. Morell, Proceedings
Oshkosh Is Tinkering With a Uniquely British JLTV
Andrew Chuter, Defense News
Turkish Drone Strike Kills Two Senior Iraqi Officers, Army Says
Al-Monitor
Joint Force Should Closely Watch Overhaul of the USMC
Brian Raike, Mod. War Inst.
Japan's Rethink Of Aegis Ashore Could Cause Troubles
Loren Thompson, Forbes
Strengthening Industrial Base Decision-Making for PGMs
War on the Rocks
U.S. Service Member Dies in Bahrain Noncombat Incident
Hope Hodge Seck, Military
DoD Requests 30-day Extension for Re-Awarding JEDI
Andrew Eversden, C4ISRNET
First Space Force Doctrine Lays Foundation for Future Ops
Rachel S. Cohen, AF Mag.
Tuesday, August 11
USAF Hypersonic Weapon Hits 'Major Milestone' in New Test
Bing Xiao, Military.com
Rafale Jets Won't Save India's Air Force
Harsh V. Pant & Angad Singh, Foreign Policy
Navy Commissions Another LCS Amid Push to Fix Program
David Larter, Def. News
Japan, Vietnam Ink Maritime Patrol Ship Deal As SCS Row Heats Up
Japan Times
Russian Recon Fire Complex Performance in the Third Chechen War
Divergent Op.
Deception Is Key to Chinese Military Strategies
Aaron Jensen, The Diplomat
Bell Building Advanced Manufacturing Centre to Win FVL
Garrett Reim, Flightglobal
The Defense Reforms Taiwan Needs
Michael Hunzeker & Brian Davis, Defense One
The Case for Full-Spectrum Competition with China
Mark K. Jbeily, Proceedings
Brent Scowcroft Never Hated His Enemies
James Stavridis, Bloomberg
Embedding Creativity in Professional Military Education
Strategy Bridge
Lawmakers Want More AI for Military
Jon Harper, National Defense Magazine
Monday, August 10
Why Japan Scrapped a $4.2B U.S. Missile System
Rieko Miki, Nikkei Asian Review
Next Carrier’s Cost Creeps Up After First One Hit $13.3B
A. Capaccio, Bloomberg
A Human F-16 Pilot Will Fight Against AI in an Upcoming Contest
C4ISRNET
Ronald Reagan CSG Conducting Drills Off Coast of Japan
Megan Eckstein, USNI N.
A Russian Satellite Weapon Shows the Danger of Hazy Rules in Space
Economist
Learning the Right Lessons From Nagasaki
R. Heinrichs & T. Morrison, Newsweek
Credible Commitment Problems In Civil War
Craig Harvey, Defence-In-Depth
Shipyard, Union Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike in Maine
David Sharp, AP
Defense Personnel to Get Crash Course in OpSec
Lindy Kyzer, Defense One
Space Force: New Service’s Future Coming Into Focus
Yasmin Tadjdeh, NatDefMag
URGENT Space: Leveraging Assets for Battlefield Dominance
D. Karbler, Army Mag.
Esper: Troop Presence in Afghanistan Will Be ‘Less Than 5,000’ by Nov.
The Hill
Transient Workforces and ‘Frugal Innovation’
Bret Dvoracek, Grounded Curiosity
Saturday, August 8
Army LRPF Breakthroughs Raise Questions About C4ISR
Loren Thompson, Forbes
MDO and the Nuclear Elephant in the Room
Jeremiah Rozman, RealClearDefense
Countering Russia's Influence Operations in the Balkans
D. Shedd & I. Stradner, RCD
Germany Floats a New NATO Spending Yardstick: 10 Percent
S. Sprenger, DefNews
Major Submarine Contractor Drops Navy Missile Tube Biz
P. McCleary, Breaking Def.
Saab, Lockheed Martin & Boeing Vie to Supply Canada’s Next Fighter
H. Lye, AFT
Technology Is Driving Another Global Power Shift
Joseph S. Nye, The Strategist (ASPI)
GPS Anti-Jam M-Code Takes Two Steps Forward
Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense
How the Army Plans to Use Space and AI to Hit Deep Targets Quickly
N. Strout, DN
Fast Deployments Deter Better Than Bases
Barry Blechman, Breaking Defense
Space Force’s Future Coming into Focus
Yasmin Tadjdeh, National Defesne Magazine
Sustaining the Case for European ‘Sovereign’ Air Capability
Douglas Barrie, IISS
Trump Admin Goes for ‘360 Degree’ Diplomacy to Help End Libya War
Al-Monitor
Soldier, Scholar, Statesman: Remembering General Brent Scowcroft
Atlantic Coun.
Cyber Sovereignty Cuts Both Ways
Elliott Zaagman, the interpreter
ULA and SpaceX to Remain Military’s Rocket Launch Providers
V. Insinna, DefNews
Technology and the Market for Hypocrisy
Alexander Galetovic & Stephen Haber, The Hill
Friday, August 7
The U.S. Military Has Options Against China
James R. Holmes, The Hill
A Chinese-Built Airport Next Door to a Key Australia-U.S. Naval Base?
interpreter
Can the U.S. Save Its Sealift Fleet?
Alec Blivas, The Diplomat
Hypersonic Hype and Russia's Diminished Nuclear Threshold
P. Felgenhauer, EDM
Consolidating EUCOM’s Combat Power
John Venable & James Jay Carafano, RCDefense
Hypersonic ‘Air Force One’? the Air Force Is Looking Into It
Garrett Reim, Flight Global
Stealth Put to Test Teaming RQ-170s, F-35s, B-2s With Other Jets
The WarZone
Taiwan in Talks to Purchase Six Sophisticated U.S. Drones
Mike Stone, Reuters
Naval Warfare 2010–2020: A Comparative Analysis
Jimmy Drennan, CIMSEC
What the Army Learned From Its First Robot Vehicle Experiment
M. Cox, Military
Russian Navy Activity in the North Sea
Nicholas J. Myers, Wavell Room
Brown Takes Over as Air Force Chief of Staff
John A. Tirpak, Air Force Magazine
'Despair' in Military Sealift Command Fleet Over COVID Restrictions
Navy Times
Alliance-Based Approach to Securing Rare-Earths
G. Feely & R. De Wilde, The Strategist
UK Facilities for U.S. F-35s Are Delayed and Over Budget
Valerie Insinna, Def. News
Below Threshold Competition on DoS Modernization
Matthew F. Smith, Divergent Opt.
Smoke on the Water: The Global Challenge of Shipyard Fires
Matt Phillips, WotR

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