Training for electronic warfare threats is too easy, leaving troops dangerously unready for great power conflict. Scenarios are so unrealistic that one officer called them “garbage.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.B-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
“We’re not talking about interoperability anymore, we’re talking about proper integration to a level we’ve never seen,” Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Jerry Kyd told me on the deck of the UK’s new carrier.
By Paul McLeary
The sale to Montenegro might be small, but the US push into the Balkans will not make Moscow happy.
By Paul McLeary
The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
By Paul McLeary
The Naval Strike Missile is one tool that the Navy and Marines are looking to rely on in crafting a response to a new era of long-range threats.
By Paul McLeary
Subtle, significant differences in what the two men said about foreign allies reveal one of the potential fault lines between Trump and Milley.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
An IDF team has been taking test flights aboard Lockheed Martin’s new CH-53K in Maryland, but Boeing’s CH-47 Chinook is in the running too — and both programs could use a boost against their American critics.
By Arie Egozi
Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
“We’ve got to wrestle with ship mix and their capacity; there’s a balancing act.”
By Paul McLeary
In conflicts of the future the Pentagon will need some radically new thinking.
By Paul McLeary
Other companies build planes. Other companies build helicopters. Bell’s “secret sauce,” its CEO says, is its aircraft can be both.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force tested new tactics for Pacific conflict, hand-in-glove with the Marines, Air Force, and Australians.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
By Paul McLeary The Marines are hellbent on fielding the troubled CH-53K helicopter to supply the far-flung island outposts they plan on using against China.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The sea services have their own space specialists, but those personnel don’t only work on space — so who stays and who goes?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
