The Air Force might be reevaluating its plans for a sixth-generation fighter jet in the coming years, as the service’s top officer on Thursday eluded confirmation that it would still field the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft despite the current and future budget restrictions facing the Pentagon.
“We’re going to have to make those choices, make those decisions and across the landscape,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
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After years of tension, conflict and even some election-hacking, some have said U.S.-Russian relations are more tense than they were even at the height of the Cold War. Apparently, those people have forgotten that U.S. and Russian troops killed each other a few times, conducted a standoff with tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba, and stared each other down in armed tanks in divided Berlin.
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This is one of the most boss photos on this site. (Photo: Central Intelligence Agency)
The incident started on Oct. 22, 1961, when America’s senior diplomat in West Berlin, E.
In an effort to provide greater access to 5G and high-speed internet for commercial users, the Federal Communications Commission has approved changes in spectrum management policy that would authorize wireless services for millions of residents in the United States.
The FCC announced Thursday that it had agreed to modify an existing spectrum-sharing framework used to protect the Department of Defense’s military operations conducted in the 3.
Several people watch a ship belonging to the Russian Navy flotilla arrive at the port of Havana on June 12, 2024. (Yander Zamora/Anadolu via Getty Images).
Someone in the Kremlin must have opened Marko Ramius’ letter because three Russian ships and one submarine are conducting naval exercises in the Caribbean this week.
In response, the U.S. Navy has sent at least one P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft to keep tabs on the Russians and has the destroyers USS Truxtun, USS Donald Cook and USS Delbert D. Black patrolling in the region, a spokesperson for U.S.
A combination of kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities will be critical for the U.S. Army to address the sheer mass that China and its military possess relative to the United States, according to a top acquisition official.
This has been one of the lessons from Ukraine’s plight against Russia: that while conventional warfare tools, like artillery, still matter, there must be non-kinetic companions to these weapons.
Abraham Denmark is exiting his role as the Pentagon’s senior adviser and coordinator for the AUKUS alliance, which is steering trilateral defense technology cooperation between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh announced his departure Wednesday during a press briefing.
On Thursday, Denmark posted about it on social media.
“I have stepped down as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, where I had the honor to drive the development & implementation of #AUKUS,” he posted on LinkedIn.
In 2022, Gesine Weber wrote “A Case for French Leadership on Ukraine” in which she explored France’s potential to lead European security efforts following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the wake of the French government’s discussion to potentially send military trainers and recent provision of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to Ukraine, we invited her back to revisit her initial hypotheses on the efficacy of French leadership. Read more below.
Labour published its manifesto on 13 June, including a pledge for a 2.5% GDP defence spend, and a Nato-Test on defence programmes.
Guest post by Colonel George R. K. Acree, U.S. Army, Retired
The views are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, The Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.
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Is the United States sleepwalking its way into a hot war with Russia? Over the last three years the United States has provided over $175 billion in military assistance to the Ukraine1.
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The Marine Corps on Wednesday released an update about its ambitious plans to modernize how it trains and educates into warfighters who are equipped for the…