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Senate Passes Defense Bill, Prepares To Battle House On Nukes, War Powers
The $750 defense policy bill sticks with the administration’s topline, but huge fights loom with the House version. Prepare for a long, hot summer.
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US Upgrades Ukrainian Ports To Fit American Warships
WASHINGTON: As tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea, the US is upgrading several Ukrainian naval bases to give American and NATO warships the ability to dock just miles from...
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Estonia Inks ‘Big’ New US Defense Deal, Eyes On Russia
The Baltic nation is focusing on its ground forces, and acquiring new armor, Howitzers. air defense missiles, and rifles as it shoots past NATO’s 2 percent spending threshold.
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Will Trump Keep Turkey In F-35 Program? Washington Mum on Russian S-400 Delivery
No one is talking at DoD, State or the White House about today’s delivery of the Russian weapon system. Is the president considering looking the other way?
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Turkish S-400s Create ‘New Order’ In Mid East Airspace
An Israeli expert said that the critical question is, where will the Turks deploy the Russian system. “If it is deployed near the border with Syria it may endanger air forces that will attack Iranian...
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Trump: Turkey Is Out of F-35 Program; Esper & Warren Battle In Senate
A friendly Senate hearing heated up when Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Acting SecDef Esper “you should not be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.”
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It’s Official: Turkey Out of F-35 Program By March 2020
Washington finally removes Turkey from the F-35 program, but Pentagon officials decline to say whether there’s a path for it to come back.
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US Expands Icelandic Airfield For Tankers, Big Cargo Lift
An old Cold War base in Iceland has seen over $80 million in US investments in recent years as the Pentagon flies more surveillance missions in the high north — and plans to do more.
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Day One: Esper Praises Budget Deal, Warns On China Tech, Iran
The secretary heads first to CENTCOM to hammer out the details of Operation Sentinel, a plan to monitor and protect shipping from Iran in Persian Gulf.
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America Adrift: ‘Bringing The World To Crisis”
The Trump administration has watered down U.S. global leadership to coercive deal-making. The dangerous contours of a world in crisis are now coming into stark relief.
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DoT, Fearing China/Russia Threats, Tests GPS ‘Back-Ups’
The Transportation Department is working closely with DoD, DHS and other agencies “to address policy and technical issues including the security and resilience of GPS receivers,” says General Counsel...
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Note To Putin: Trump Unleashes $400M For Ukrainian Military
After weeks of uncertainty over the Trump administration’s policy toward Ukraine, senators and State Department officials say the spigot of aid has been turned back on.
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Target, Kaliningrad: Air Force Puts Putin On Notice
The threat of long-range missile launchers in the Russian enclave is driving the Air Force to develop new tactics for multi-domain attack and dispersed defense.
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Esper Exhorts Allies To Ban Chinese 5G: Britain’s Huawei Dilemma
London is on the verge of a much-delayed and debated decision about allowing Huawei to build “non-core” components of its 5G network.
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Trump Extols ‘My Friend,’ Gen. Milley; CJCS Promises ‘Candid’ Advice
Subtle, significant differences in what the two men said about foreign allies reveal one of the potential fault lines between Trump and Milley.
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EU Plan To Boost Space Industry Draws White House Ire
Scott Pace, executive director of the National Space Council, warned the EU about its plan for promoting homegrown industry — ironically, while speaking at an Atlantic Council event on the need for...
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Allies Must Press US To Keep New Start: US Experts
“New START matters to our security, to the security of the alliance, to the cohesion of the (NATO) alliance,” said Tom Countryman, former assistant secretary of State for international security and...
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A New NATO Buyer For JLTV; More Buyers On The Way?
The sale to Montenegro might be small, but the US push into the Balkans will not make Moscow happy.
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US Scrambles As Both Parties Oppose Trump On Kurds
The Pentagon and State Department spent much of Monday scrambling to respond to the White House’s Sunday night announcement. Three days earlier Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters he and the...
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Tough Sanctions May Drive Turkey Into Russia’s Arms
Norway suspended new applications for military export licenses to Turkey today. Norway is also reviewing all current licenses for Turkey for military and multi-use military export licenses.
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