The Chair of the UK Defence Committee ‘calls out’ the government’s limited commitment to defence spending in the tense geopolitical climate.
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US intelligence, since mid-June, received information that Wagner was planning armed action in Russia, although the scale is unknown.
The Washington Post on June 24 quoted US officials as saying that US intelligence two weeks ago urgently informed the White House and other agencies in the government so that they would not be surprised about Wagner’s actions.
Medical and field training has been delivered to Ukrainian personnel in the UK by the British Army and partners from Netherlands and Iceland.
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The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian army repelled more than 20 attacks on Ukraine in a day, causing heavy damage to the enemy.
Ukrainian forces continuously launched attacks across the front lines in a day, being repelled and suffering heavy casualties. The Ukrainian army lost more than 800 soldiers and a lot of military equipment in these attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on June 25.
The heaviest fighting took place in the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast and its vicinity.
North Korea accused the United States and South Korea of pushing states of capabilities to the “brink of nuclear war,” vowing to continue to strengthen self-defense capabilities.
“America’s belligerent moves have pushed military tension on the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia, which is very unstable, closer to the brink of a nuclear war,” the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Announced on June 26.
India is planning to equip its navy with 15 MQ-9B SeaGuardians while its army and air force could receive eight SkyGuardians each. (General Atomics)
The Indian government has accorded an Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for the procurement of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9B high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS).
India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on 25 June that the country’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) had accorded the AoN on 15 June to acquire 31 MQ-9Bs for the three services of the military.
There is widespread consensus among analysts that, although Russia and China have been moving toward closer cooperation through the entire post-Soviet era, the trend has accelerated rapidly since 2014. The specter of a Russian-Chinese partnership is deeply threatening to the United States, not only because it makes U.S. military planning more challenging, but also because it raises the possibility of two formidable adversaries joining forces to counter U.S. interests and potentially working in concert to attack U.S allies.
If you’re like us, you probably spend much of the year reading strategy, history, biography, and commentary. Summer is a good time to reinvigorate your mind with some fiction. To that end, each year we ask the senior editors and board members of War on the Rocks and the Texas National Security Review for reading recommendations. We hope you find something to sink into and savor.
It will cost more than planned to upgrade shoreside facilities, such as those in Kodiak, Alaska, to support the proposed US Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters. (Michael Fabey)
The expected costs for new or upgraded facilities to accommodate the proposed US Coast Guard (USCG) Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) fleet has more than tripled over the last decade, according to a recently released US Government Accountability (GAO) Office report.
“[The] OPC’s facilities acquisition cost estimate – including home ports and shore facilities – increased from USD431 million to USD1.
The USN awarded HII a contract modification to fund the new delivery schedule for carrier
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(Michael Fabey)
The US Navy (USN) awarded HII a USD274 million fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification and a USD119.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-plus-incentive-fee modification for the Ford-class aircraft carrier,
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(CVN 79), on 23 June to help fund the carrier’s new delivery schedule changes.