A 1953 advertisement for the U.S. Air Force’s civilian Ground Observer Corps described America’s air defenses as a “10 mile high fence full of holes.” Seventy years later, the United States again finds itself unable to reliably detect and identify threats from the air. One need look no further than the 2023 Chinese spy balloon incident, the unattributed aerial incursions over Langley Air Force Base and other U.S. military installations at home and overseas, and recent reports of mysterious drone activity over several U.S. states to see the urgency of the issue.
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Rick Landgraf talks with Jeffrey Ding, author of “Machine Failing: How Systems Acquisition and Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents,” featured in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Texas National Security Review. They discuss how flaws in the U.S. military’s systems acquisitions process can lead to accidents. Image: NAVCENT Public Affairs
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Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks is poised to complete her tenure at the Pentagon under the Biden administration — and she’s been in direct contact with officials on President-elect Donald Trump’s Agency Review Team preparing for the upcoming transition, according to her top public affairs advisor Eric Pahon.
In responses to questions from DefenseScoop this week, Pahon discussed Hicks’ plans and priorities for her final days helping steer the Defense Department’s major technology programs.
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In 2021, Rear Adm. (ret.) Mark Montgomery wrote “Fully Fund the Guam Defense System,” where he argued that the U.S. government was failing to prioritize Guam’s defense, leaving the United States vulnerable to Chinese aggression in the Pacific. After the Missile Defense Agency conducted its first interception test in Guam last month, we asked Mark to revisit his article. Read more below. Image: Army (Photo by Capt.
Soldiers use tobacco pouches at a much higher rates than most American adults, a new study found. This news, while noteworthy, is unlikely to surprise anyone who is now, or has been, in the military.
Tossing in a pinch of dip, or a pouch, is so common in some units that you might spend your entire enlistment thinking your sergeant has an underbite and never realize that he just has a whole horseshoe of Grizzly Wintergreen Long Cut stuffed in his lower lip at all hours of the day.
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When trash bins overflowed at Fort Liberty and continued to pile up for weeks last winter, soldiers at the North Carolina Army base sent photos to a soldier-run Instagram account to highlight the unsightly issue. Comments flooded in, many of them jokes at the Army’s expense. Within days of that initial social media post, which prompted news coverage, base officials responded and the trash was removed.
The de facto smoke pit of the digital era, social media in the military has long been a gathering place for service members and veterans.