Author: Michael

Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down for a retrospective episode about the Biden administration’s foreign and defense policy. Using U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Foreign Affairs article “America’s Strategy of Renewal,” they ask if the United States is better off in terms of national security than it was four years ago.

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The Kremlin’s preoccupation with prevailing in Ukraine is pushing it to contemplate geostrategic risks and adopt a more proactive approach in regions like the Red Sea. In the past, the Yemeni quagmire had limited appeal even to Russia, a country known for its inclination to exploit crises around the globe. But Moscow’s calculations may be shifting. The Kremlin’s warming ties with Yemen’s Houthi rebels could enable the latter to expand and intensify their destabilizing activities, especially if advanced military hardware changes hands.

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The Space Development Agency has tapped 19 space companies to compete for upcoming prototype demonstrations under its new Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (HALO) vendor pool, the organization announced Wednesday.
As part of the HALO pool of pre-approved vendors, the selected businesses will now be able to compete for demonstrations and experimentation task orders that will support future tranches of SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

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Army investigators are looking into the death of a soldier at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri as a homicide after she was found dead earlier this week, officials told Task and Purpose.
Officials announced Tuesday that Sgt. Sarah Roque, 23, was found dead. Base officials at Fort Leonard Wood had put out a “be on the look out” notice, also known as a BOLO, on Monday, asking for the public’s help in locating Roque, who was described as a Hispanic woman assigned to the 5th Engineer Battalion.

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