NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explicitly ruled out Ukraine being offered an invitation to join at the forthcoming Vilnius Summit, but reaffirmed that Russia does not “get a veto.”
By Tim MartinModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
Wide-ranging document states bold ambition but lacks details for implementation, analysts say.
By Christina Mackenzie
US defense secretary chaired a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels, where officials pledged long-term support for the embattled nation.
By Ashley Roque
At this year’s Shangri-La Diaglogue, it was impossible to escape talk of the conflict thousands of miles away.
By Reuben Johnson
With Ukraine losing up to 10,000 drones a month, mostly to Russian electronic warfare, it’s tempting to invest in anti-EW protection – but, experts agreed, it’s probably more cost-effective to accept high losses and just buy more bare-bones drones.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Of military to military relations with China, the US is “ready to talk when you’re ready to talk,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said today in a speech to the Arms Control Association.
By Theresa Hitchens
Many of the themes presented in the strategy are familiar to what officials have talked about in the past when it comes to the department’s cyberspace operations, but full details are classified.
By Jaspreet Gill
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.
“The loss rate for Ukrainian UAVs at the moment is about 10,000 UAVs a month,” Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said. “That’s the level of equipment that both sides are going through.”
By Colin Clark
Think the Pentagon is ponderous? A new study from CNA shows how Soviet-style bureaucracy and an industrial base dependent on imports – from Iran, China, and the West – have hampered Russian drone warfare in Ukraine.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Czech Republic recently announced the finalization of a plan to buy 246 MkIV CV90s, while separately sources told Breaking Defense that other CV90s are on their way to the front lines in Ukraine.
By Andrew White
“F-16s clearly have a role and Ukraine deserves a capable Air Force. It’s going to take a considerable length of time to build up an Air Force that’s the size and scope and scale that’ll be necessary,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.
By Ashley Roque
The Prime Minister’s office told Breaking Defense that it “wouldn’t be able to get into further detail,” and experts have few theories.
By Tim Martin
“Hacktivist” groups like the IT Army of Ukraine claim hundreds of thousands of members, but their cyber attacks are less about tangible results than online agitprop, says a forthcoming study from CSIS exclusively previewed by Breaking Defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Berlin’s new arms package for Ukraine, Germany’s largest to date and valued at €2.7 billion ($2.95 billion), covers 200 reconnaissance drones, 30 Leopard 1 A5 tanks, 20 Marder armored personnel carriers, over 100 combat vehicles, 18 self-propelled Howitzers and four IRIS-T SLM medium range air defense systems.
By Tim Martin
