Paul Schaffner, Anca Agachi & Jack Lashendock, MWI
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO has gone back to basics and its raison d’etre of collective defense.
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New sensors and long-range weapons may force the service to rethink doctrine.
J. Trevithick, TWZ
The Army’s Enduring Shield SAM system is set to use AIM-9X first, but the service wants a new missile to drastically expand its capabilities.
K. Kajal, IntEngineering
The goal is to significantly improve the effectiveness of the U.S. Army’s existing air and missile defense systems against aerial threats.
Valerie Insinna, Breaking Defense
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY25 defense spending bill adds $21 billion in emergency funding, allowing it to skirt spending caps without…
Australia Defence Force will implement a new Digital Engineering Strategy, modelled on US DoD processes, to speed up procurement.
This week, Tokyo hosted the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, which brought together the two countries’ defense and foreign ministers. Although these “2+2 meetings” are fairly mundane and routine occurrences, this one had unusual importance: accelerating the shift from coordination to integration. This was the basic task set forth at the April summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. It represents a significant evolution of the U.S.-Japanese alliance.
At the Clements Center for National Security’s Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft, Susan Colbourn and Simon Miles discussed how different concepts of history have shaped the war in Ukraine and how students of international affairs should challenge their assumptions and embrace uncertainty. Image: Clements Center for National Security
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Some of America’s elite special operations forces held a major exercise off the coast of Alaska from July 5 to Aug. 2, 2024, bringing together some of the most secretive units and equipment from the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Photos released by the Pentagon this week show that the exercise brought together stealthy MH-60 helicopters from the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Naval Special Warfare SEALs, Combatant Craft Assault boats and ScanEagle drones and rarely seen Air Force C-146 Wolfhound transport aircraft.
Troops in infantry, explosive ordnance disposal, combat engineers and medical care specialists commit suicide at higher rates compared to other military occupations according to a new Pentagon report.
Enlisted infantry soldiers are at the highest risk of committing suicide, the July report found, facing suicide mortality rates higher than 21 other military occupational specialties. Against the U.S. population as a whole, service members in 14 enlisted occupations had higher suicide rates, the report said.
Across the entire military, officers fare better than their enlisted peers.