Tough Sanctions May Drive Turkey Into Russia’s Arms
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Norway suspended new applications for military export licenses to Turkey today. Norway is also reviewing all current licenses for Turkey for military and multi-use military export licenses.
Commandant: Marines ‘Not Optimized For Great Power Competition’
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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.”
LCS Fires New Long-Range Missile, As Navy And Marine Corps Hammer Out New Force Plan
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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.
Trump’s Claim Of $2.5 Trillion In DoD Dough: Not True
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If you count next year’s budget, the president will be actually selling himself short. But his other superlatives are not justified.
DoD Reworking Arms Sales To Curb Civilian Casualties & Counter China
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A new system will retrain 20,000 DoD employees to work within the National Defense Strategy, while shifting focus to new areas of the world.
EXCLUSIVE Navy’s New Triton Drone Heads To Guam, New Pacific Recon Tool
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Originally slated to deploy last year, the Triton drones will give US commanders in the Pacific a powerful new tool to conduct surveillance, and track Chinese moves from afar.
Marines Kick Off A Year Of Wargames To Help Build New Force
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Huawei’s 5G Gambit: Sharing Tech Won’t Fix Security
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Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei made a dramatic offer to let all comers license and modify his 5G technology. Making it secure would be a Herculean task.
Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel
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“In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central Command.
AFSPC Study, Eye On China, Urges ‘Expansive’ New Strategy
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A new AFSPC study posits a possible future — named after ancient Chinese warlord Zhang He — where China dominates space even as human presence vastly expands to the Moon and beyond.