Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare
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These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.
Massive NATO Wargame Seeks To Shore Up Fraying Alliance
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More collective defense cooperation will be on display at the massive AUSA 2019 conference, attended by 92 different nations, including the chief generals of 13 armies.
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.
A New NATO Buyer For JLTV; More Buyers On The Way?
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The sale to Montenegro might be small, but the US push into the Balkans will not make Moscow happy.
Top DoD Lawyer Gathers All Ukraine Aid Docs For Congress: ‘Routine’
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General Counsel Paul Nay directed DoD officials to “preserve all documents, records, and writings, and any associated attachments, in any format,” that relate to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
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.”
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.
The Navy Is Back In Iceland, But Left Its Carrier At Home
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The 2nd Fleet wants to “decentralize decision making and allow the on-scene commander to take the initiative,” Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis says.
Fog Of Information War: Army Asks Civilians, Allies For Aid
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The hard part of Multi-Domain Operations isn’t hypersonic missiles or robotic tanks. It’s getting civilian agencies and foreign allies to fight disinformation — long before the shooting starts.