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Air Force Space Command expects to receive funding to restore several activities that the command had to curtail earlier this year due to the budget sequester, according to AFSPC boss Gen. William Shelton. Earlier this month, Congress authorized the Air...

The US military is prepared to conduct either “limited standoff strikes” or establish a no-fly zone over Syria, said Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Martin Dempsey. They are among the military options for dealing with Syria available to the White...

US military equipment is once again starting to flow freely across Afghanistan’s borders following a series of “high-level” discussions aimed at curbing escalating tensions between US and Afghan officials, said Maj. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of the 9th Air and...

The population at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, is expected to rise to 30,000 people—up from 26,000 today—before the NATO combat mission ends in the country in 2014, said British Group Capt. Jamie Johnston, Kandahar’s deputy commander for support. Today, slightly more...

The United States should adapt its military satellite communications architecture to the new strategic environment where US dominance of space is far from assured, said Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary...

The United States should make greater cooperation in the realm of military satellite communications a component of its strategic pivot to the Pacific region in order to forge closer ties with allies there, said Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense...

Despite US sanctions on Iran, the latter’s pursuit of more advanced ballistic missiles and space-launch capability has not abated, said Uzi Rubin, retired Israeli air force brigadier general. “It has not slowed down, it is accelerating,” he said during a...