Americans are waking up to the fact that our military is not as ready or as capable as it needs to be. Just two years ago, 62 percent of Americans thought U.S. military strength was “about right” and 25 percent thought it was “not strong ...
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Fifth AF without F-15s; Collaborative Combat Aircraft; Layered missile defense in Guam.
Exercise exposes the inherent complexity of cross-domain, joint service operations.
Ukraine needs USAF aircraft.
U.S. Northern Command’s homeland cruise missile detection and defenses must be upgraded to respond to new threats, experts say, and a major D.C. think tank proposes a multi-layered defense that would require fewer Air Force fighters in the air and use new E-7 Wedgetails, the ...
The Space Force’s strategy to mix military with civilian space raises questions about the law of war.
Growing threats raise the stakes for why the U.S. must prevail in this essential domain.
Al Maggini, who completed 35 bombing missions as a B-17 navigator with the Eighth Air Force in World War II, turned 106 recently.
U.S. Northern Command was created 20 years ago in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., and though the threats have evolved significantly since then, the command still largely relies on the same analog systems and processes to share threat ...
“The U.S. already spends more on defense than the next 10 countries combined.” ... But is the assertion true?
The Defense Department is setting up a “recipe for disaster” if it does not establish a joint program executive office to coordinate joint all-domain command and control efforts across services, a top defense analyst is warning. In a brief published by the Center for Strategic ...
The Defense Department is considering sending U.S. troops back to Somalia just about six months after pulling them all out of the country as part of a broader look at the military's force posture. In December, then-President Donald J. Trump ordered troops to leave Somalia ...
