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S-400 or F-35? Turkey’s Erdogan Must Choose
Turkey’s increasingly autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is an erstwhile NATO ally. Turkey flies F-16s and is a partner in the F-35 program. But Erdogan has committed his country to buying...
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US Halts F-35 Parts Shipments To Turkey
WASHINGTON: The US economic vice is beginning to tighten on Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, who has made it a mark of his presidency to test just how far he can stretch the bonds that knit...
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Washington Struggles With Next Move After Halt To F-35 Part Shipments To Turkey
Senators, generals, and the acting Defense Secretary all tried to present a united front on Tuesday, but questions remain.
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Pence Slams Germany, Turkey At NATO Party
In a day of optimism at NATO’s 70th birthday bash, tensions over spending, and weapons deals with Russia, make for awkward moments
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Blueprint For A More Effective NATO
More ruthless prioritization, a laser focus on filling key capability shortfalls and better alignment of national, regional, and NATO plans will allow the alliance to solidify its place as the alliance...
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F-35 Production Hurt If Turkey Kicked Out Of Program: Vice Adm. Winter
“We would see within 45 to 90 days an impact of the slowing down or stopping of those parts to the three production lines,” Vice Adm. Mat Winter told Congress.
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China’s Theft & Espionage: What Must Be Done
Screening Chinese students and academics isn’t the solution when less than one percent of them are bad actors. So what will work?
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“We have a saying in Asia…When the elephants fight, the ants get smashed.”
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Allies Diplomatic Note To Moscow: 2 Carriers, 7 Ships, 1 Ambassador
While two carriers attracting most of the attention, a smaller US footprint is being established between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, where Russia — and Turkey — are raising concerns.
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New 2nd Fleet To Confront Russia From Day One
The Navy has created a new fleet, and is sending it straight into the Baltic Sea to test new ways of doing business.
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Ellen Lord: Lot 12 Contract For F-35s Soon
The Pentagon says a new F-35 deal is coming this summer, and promises more costs savings even as the program struggles to get needed spare parts.
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State, DoD Letter Warns European Union to Open Defense Contracts, Or Else
Europe has bristled at a letter sent to the EU from the Pentagon and State Department, which says proposed EU defense programs are unfair to the US defense industry.
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Dunford: Leaders Mull First NATO Strategy In Decades
Katie Wheelbarger, the acting assistant Defense secretary for international security affairs, said Thursday that “Russia’s great power status still remains largely aspirational.”
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US-Turkey Relations At Precipice; Turks Start S-400 Training
The Pentagon appears to be ready to take further action in the long-running saga over Turkey and the F-35.
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US, Poland Ready Major Troop Announcement at White House; MoD Watches F-35s
As the Polish president visits the White House this week, Polish officials are touring US air bases to check out the F-35.
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Eye On Iran, Israelis Conduct Huge Two-Week Exercise On Cyprus
TEL AVIV: As the Middle Eastern kettle boils hotter, Israel is striving to improve the readiness and efficiency of its forces with regional exercises aimed, in part, at building de facto regional...
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Poland Deal Lays Groundwork For Division-Strength Deployment
A division-scale exercise next year in Europe, Defender 2020, will be the largest in a quarter-century.
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EU Steps Up Its Defense Spending, But Washington Says Not So Fast
Is the European Defence Fund a long-overdue move by US allies to take more responsibility for their own security? Or a bid to exclude US companies from European arms markets?
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Euro Tanker Program Plans To Expand
Didier Plantecoste, head of the MRTT program at Airbus, says the allied tanker program is wooing new European customers in “the South.”
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In Brussels, Newest Acting SecDef Stresses Continuity
Mark Esper got on a plane to NATO just 24 hours after taking over at the Pentagon. There are two main reasons why.
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