Week of August 3, 2020 Archives

RealClearDefense Morning Edition

Monday, August 3
China’s Next-Generation Fighter
Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Negotiating with Great Powers on Nuclear Arms
F. Klotz, J. Lauder & W. Courtney, RCD
Hypersonic Weapons Testing Faces a Big Problem: Killer Whales
K. Mizokami, PM
The Coming of CMV-22B to the Fleet: Next Steps
Robbin Laird, SLD.info
Army Guard Begins to Reorganize Force Into Eight Divisions
Corey Dickstein, S&S
Send in the Coast Guard . . . With the Marines!
Daniel Wiltshire, Proceedings
The Air Force’s Latest GPS Alternative: Earth’s Magnetic Fields
Patrick Tucker, Def1
To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico
R. Jacobson & T. Wyler, Foreign Affairs
8 Missing After AAV Sinking Presumed Dead as Search Off California Ends
USNI
Controversial Nominee Tata Appointed to Top Defense Job
Aaron Mehta, DefNews
75 Years of Nuclear Terror
Peter Pry, The Hill
GEN McConville Reassures Allies U.S. Troops Will Stay Out of Policing
Military
BAE Angles For GPS M-Code Market
Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense
Assessing the Relationship Between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia
M. Wasinger, DivOpt
Industry Partnerships Key for Space Superiority
Wesley Hallman, National Defense Mag.
Arctic Governance: Keeping the Arctic Council on Target
Ian Birdwell, CIMSEC
Managing Chaos: Biosecurity in a Post-COVID-19 America
Strategy Bridge
Tuesday, August 4
The U-2's Latest Feat: Passing Data from F-35s to Army Missiles
Patrick Tucker, D1


China's Rise Is Macarthur's Vindication
Francis P. Sempa, RealClearDefense
Egypt Acquires Russian Fighter Jets Despite U.S. Warning
Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor
Army Eyes Anti-Ship, Hypersonic Weapons for Pacific Fight
John Grady, USNI News
Raytheon and Rafael to Build Iron Dome in U.S.
Jen Judson, Defense News
It’s Time for a Third Special Operations Revolution
David Maxwell, Military Times
Declawing the Tiger: Rebuttal of Phasing Out Marine Tank Battalions
Strategy Br.
Distilling the Essence of Strategy
Frank Hoffman, War on the Rocks
Beware the Guns of August—in Asia
Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs
Marines Want New Shoulder-Fired Rockets with Small Blast Signature
Military
USS Theodore Roosevelt’s Leadership Changes Hands
Caitlin Doornbos, Stars and Str.
Poland Agrees to Pay Almost All Costs of U.S. Troop Presence
Breaking Defense
$8B in GOP Coronavirus Bill Does More Than Buy Weapons
Mackenzie Eaglen, BusIn
War Books: Close Combat Lethality
T.S. Allen, Modern War Institute
Create ‘Patrol Forces Indo-Pacific’?
Merrill A. Magowan, Proceedings
USASOAC Adds More Boeing CH-47 Chinooks
Army-Techonology
Air Force, Navy Link Up for Black Sea Training
Brian W. Everstine, Air Force Magazine
Wednesday, August 5
Are We Living in the 8:20 of American Seapower Dominance?
CDR Salamander


CNO Mandate: A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority
Brent Ramsey, RCD
Thinking Hard About Missile Defense
Bryan Clark & Henry Sokolski, RealClearDefense
The Crozier Affair Through Chinese Eyes
James Holmes, Proceedings
Marines Locate Sunken AAV, Remains of Some Missing Troops
G. Harkins, Military
A Sitting Target in Space for Russia's Anti-Satellite Weapons?
D. Deptula, The Hill
Army Starts Construction on Prototype Lasers
Sydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense
Big Money for Next-Gen Munitions
Jon Harper, National Defense Magazine
Russia Wants Its First Okhotnik Combat Drone in Service by 2024
The WarZone
CAPE Nominee: SECDEF-Navy Lacked ‘Credible Pathway’ to 355-Ship Fleet
USNI
After 75, USS Indianapolis Crew Gets Congressional Gold Medal
K. Mizokami, PM
Trump: U.S. Forces in Afghanistan to Be Slashed to Fewer Than 5,000
Stars & Str.
Vietnam Steps Up to Take ASEAN Leadership Role
Huong Le Thu, The Strategist (ASPI)
Way Ahead for Deploying C2 Hubs Empowering Integratability
DEFENSE.info
The Pandemic's Geopolitical Aftershocks
Mohan Malik, The Strategist (ASPI)
Vincere!
Caitlin Collis, Strategy Bridge
NRO Taps AI for Future ‘Hybrid Architecture’
Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense
Thursday, August 6
Ten Performance Gains the Ford-Class Carrier Will Deliver
Loren Thompson, Forbes


Destroying Natanz Nuclear Complex
John Hannah, RealClearDefense
What is in Our Navy's "Big Closet?"
CDR Salamander, USNI Blog
U.S. Missile Defenses Are About to Level Up
Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Arm Taiwan—but Skip the Nukes
Bradley Bowman & Andrea Stricker, Foreign Policy
Air Force F-35 Executes 1st Alert Status Drill
Bing Xiao, Military.com
Army V Corps Headquarters Will Be First Unit to Move to Poland
R. Sisk, Military
USAF Produces First 3-D Printed Metal Part for Aircraft Engines
Flightglobal
Army's Interim SHORAD System on Track Despite 'Hiccup'
Jen Judson, Def. News
Re-Imagining the Brigade Combat Team's Headquarters
J. Cogbill & E. Myers, MWI
KRG Seeks U.S. Help to Rein in Turkish Attacks
A. Zaman & J. Szuba, Al-Monitor
What’s Modern About Modern Strategy?
Francis J. Gavin, War on the Rocks
Is There a (New) Strategic Arms Race?
David J. Trachtenberg, NIPP
U.S. Army Readies 'Capability Set '23' for Communications Modernization
UPI
Q&A With Outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Gen David Goldfein
National Defense M.
U.S. Military Space Architecture to Bring in Commercial Systems
S. Erwin, SpaceN
How Satellites Can Save Arms Control
M. Markey, J. Pearl & B. Bahney, Foreign Affairs
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
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


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