As the Pentagon looks to deter China in the coming years, officials need to find ways to make new technologies and existing systems work together to build capacity, said former Defense Department policy chief Michèle Flournoy. In particular, Flournoy—a defense analyst who served as undersecretary ...
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Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa; Lt. Gen. James C. “Jim” Slife, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command; Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, commander of Air Forces Central; and Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart, head of the 19th ...
A fresh package of $625 million in military aid to Ukraine will include more than 200 heavily armored vehicles, additional HIMARS rocket launchers and hundreds of thousands of rounds of artillery and mortars, the Pentagon announced. Military aid provided by the U.S. since Russia's invasion ...
The U.S. has not seen anything that indicates it should adjust its nuclear posture, a senior U.S. military official told reporters Oct. 3. The official's remarks came as the Biden administration has sought to calm tensions following Russian President Vladimir Putin's hints that the country ...
Pacific Air Forces only recently developed the concept of agile combat employment in response to the growing threat to its air bases from China’s ballistic missiles, and already ACE is rapidly transforming Air Force planning, training, and doctrine. At its core, ACE is officially “a ...
Air Forces Central is standing up a new organization of “super empowered Airmen” who will have the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge technology in the “quite literal sandbox that we have in the Middle East,” said AFCENT commander Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich. One of ...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has failed in its strategic objectives and led to tremendous loss of life, and a counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops is now routing Russian forces. Russia's failures are due to its ineffective use of air power, according to top U.S. Air Force ...
The ability to achieve air superiority and control airspace over a war zone is a key U.S. military strategy and in some cases has been the primary means of achieving military objectives, such as when NATO intervened to stop Serbia's war in Kosovo and the ...
HII’s development and operation of the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE), the Navy’s Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Training Program, provides scalable Government-owned solutions that facilitate unit- to fleet-wide, joint, and coalition training. HII is leveraging these solutions with their existing USAF DMO and range programs ...
