Denmark and the Netherlands had committed to the provision of seven Leopard 2A4 tanks each, which will now be delivered this summer.
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A Farnborough Airshow panel on AUKUS Pillar II explored the intentions behind the overlooked initiative to discern any guiding objectives.
What is a country to do when military action and diplomacy are both presently hopeless? That is the situation the United States finds itself in today: Military escalation will not compel the Houthis to halt their anti-shipping campaign or attacks on Israel. Nor will diplomacy — at least not yet. Intensifying the use of force will strengthen the Houthis’ regional legitimacy and their control over Yemen. At the same time, it will draw the United States further into a conflict it cannot win, thus making it harder to cut losses when the time comes.
Recent calls to create a Cyber Force are only the latest response to the U.S. military’s years-long struggle to train and retain talented cyber personnel. In 2019, for example, an instructor at the Cyber Center of Excellence noted the difficulty of rotating soldiers through assignments executing offensive or defensive cyber operations given the need for specialization within those fields. In 2021, then-Maj. Gen.
U.S. Air Force Sgt. David Price was one of 18 Americans at Lima Site 85, a top secret CIA radar site in Laos that served as a vital navigational beacon for U.S. bombers from atop a craggy mountain peak.
In March 1968, North Vietnamese commandoes overran the post, killing 12 Americans. Price’s body was never recovered.
This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Price remains had been identified and will be returned to his family after 56 years.
Brenda Fuller, one of Price’s daughters, was only 7 years old when her father was killed in action on March 11, 1968.
Industry officials are shedding more light on a system for providing critical readiness data on the state of teams at U.S. Cyber Command, which has been in operational use for the last year.
The capability is part of the Joint Cyber Command and Control (JCC2) program, which is aimed at providing improved situational awareness, battle management, and information about cyber forces’ readiness levels for operations across the globe.
A 103-year-old WWII veteran finally got his benefits, 78 years after he was honorably discharged.
Army Technician Third Grade Louis M. Gigliotti, also known as “Jiggs,” had never applied for his benefits with the Department of Veterans Affairs. But in a July 19 ceremony at the Alaska Veterans Museum in Anchorage, Gigliotti was recognized and given the Alaska Veterans Honor Medal, according to an Alaska National Guard release.
Last week, the Chinese Communist Party held its third plenum, a closed door meeting of high-level party officials that has historically indicated the country’s policy direction on major issues, such as the economy. This was the first third plenum held since 2018 and was hotly anticipated, especially considering China’s faltering economic growth. We asked four experts to tell us more about the outcomes of the meeting and what this might indicate about China’s strategy in the coming months and years. Read more below.
The UK has donated huge quantities of weaponry to Ukraine, both platforms and munitions, leaving its own stockpiles in a parlous state.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency revealed this week that it tapped Orbital Insight to provide commercial data assets for tracking illegal fishing and other illicit maritime activities in the Asia-Pacific region, via the nascent Project Aegir.
This award to the California-based geospatial analytics company — worth up to $2 million in pilot funding — is historic as it marks the result of NGA’s first-ever commercial solutions opening (CSO) solicitation.