Even under the Fiscal 2015 budget, which sharply reduces manpower, force structure, and overall spending, the US military will for the most part still be able to fight two wars at once, the nation’s No. 2 military man said last week. “We believe we’ll be able to execute the defense strategic guidance that we put out in 2012. We will be able to simultaneously defend the homeland, conduct sustained counterterrorism operations, and deter aggression in multiple regions,” Adm. James Winnefeld, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told attendees at a Bloomberg budget conference in Washington, D.C. If deterrence fails, “We will be capable of defeating one adversary in a large-scale regional campaign, while at the same time denying the objectives of, or imposing unacceptable costs on, a second aggressor in another region.” All that, however, will be done at far less speed and with little excess margin, he said.
Details Murky as ARRW Falls Short in Second Test
March 24, 2023
The second all-up flight of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon on March 13 fell short of a fully successful test, but the Air Force isn’t saying what went wrong with the Lockheed Martin-built hypersonic missile. The defense giant's Missiles and Fire Control division recently said the ARRW is "ready…