Ahead of a major NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11-12, official statistics show a significant uptick in defense spending among allied members. According to information released on July 7 by the alliance, there is eight percent real increase in defense spending above inflation, compared ...
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China is “actively destabilizing” the Indo-Pacific region and undermining the international rules-based order—with its island-building, stifling of democracy in Hong Kong, objective to take Taiwan, and dangerous brinksmanship with other countries' ships and aircraft—yet somehow projects more “moral legitimacy” than the U.S., according to an ...
After the Department of Defense conducted a 45-day review of its classified information programs, policies, and procedures, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said the "overwhelming majority" of DOD personnel with access to classified information are "trustworthy" in a memo released public on July ...
As Air Force Secretary, Frank Kendall has brought a lifetime of experience, as a Soldier and as a policy maker, to the Department of the Air Force. By focusing strategically around seven core “Operational Imperatives” and three “Cross-cutting Operational Enablers,” Kendall has rallied his Air ...
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The U.S. must focus on detecting and tracking potential air and missile threats to the homeland before they even launch, a top Air Force general said June 22—and doing so will require homeland defense to “look vastly differently than it does today.” U.S. Northern Command and ...
Brief descriptions of each, as well as mission and Active-duty personnel numbers.
The Air Force has nine major commands and two Air Reserve Components. (Air Force Reserve Command is both a majcom and an ARC.) In late 2019, Air Force Space Command was redesignated U.S. Space Force, a separate military branch under the Department of the Air ...