Over the past couple weeks, everyone in Washington and the world has published their geopolitical forecast for 2025. The beauty of these predictions is that you can simultaneously make fun of the vague ones for being vague and the clear ones for being wrong. I really do admire the humility and wisdom of pundits who try to play it safe. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to pay for someone to tell me that Bashar al Assad’s fall will “probably increase instability” and that the Middle East will “remain the world’s hotspot” in 2025.
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As thick black smoke rises past their canopy, the crew of a California National Guard Chinook dives through a scrubby canyon, 500 feet over a line of flames. A cloud of water falls from a bucket slung beneath it, and a plume of white vapor signals to the crew that they’ve hit their mark.
For California National Guard pilots like Chief Warrant Officer 5 Joseph Rosamond, these kinds of maneuvers have been honed over many years and operations.
The Italian Army has contracted Rheinmetall Italia for Skynex air defence systems, marking a significant acquisition in the Nato region.
AgEagle Aerial Systems has fulfilled an order for its eBee VISION UAS, which will be used for surveillance operations with the French Army.
Craig Singleton, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics
Steve Cohen, The New York Sun
The Navy is in the worst shape it has been in in generations, and part of the problem is trying to accomplish too many missions with the wrong mix of assets.
TWZ
The Navy’s head of surface warfare says DDG(X) is a “clean-sheet imperative” that will prioritize electricity production, endurance and advanced weapons.
Konstantin Toropin, Military.
Naval News
Lyndon B. Johnson will be the second ship in the U.S.