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OMFV: The Army’s Polish Bridge Problem
The Army has struggled for decades to fit armored vehicles on airplanes. The real challenge is getting them across rickety Soviet-era bridges in Eastern Europe.
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Stalled Polish Missile Defense Site Needs Extra $96M, 2 Years
Getting problem-plagued ballistic missile defense site online is an ever-higher-priority for the Pentagon as Iran and Russia move out on new missiles.
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EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port
Gen. Tod Wolters reveals he’s built new infrastructure in Spain, waiting for the Navy to add two more destroyers to the four already there.
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USS Eisenhower Leads Exercise To Clear Atlantic Shipping Lanes
The Navy is doing something it hasn’t done since the 1980s — test its abilities to win in a contested crossing of the Atlantic.
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Why We Need The W76-2 Low Yield Nuke
A low-yield submarine launched ballistic missile provides the United States with an independent credible capability the Russians actually fear.
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US-Turkish Relations Could Warm; Turkey Should Pledge No Russian Arms
US-Turkish relations seem to be trending in a more positive direction because Turkey has been forced to seek help from NATO and Washington against its Syrian and Russian foes in the fighting around...
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West’s Nuke Carriers Slammed While China Signals Taiwan, Japan
Monday may have marked a turning point for how the Navy, and perhaps the Pentagon, is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions over how deeply it might cut into military operations and...
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US To Withdraw From Open Skies, Leaving 34-Nation Arms Control Pact
The move sets up a fight with Capitol Hill, which wasn’t given the legally-mandated 120-day notice of the US intent to withdraw from the pact.
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‘Major Milestone’ As Allies Join SPACECOM’s War Plan
“The hesitation to include allies in Olympic Defender was on our end as well,” says Secure World Foundation’s Brian Weeden. “National security space is sort of the last bastion of America’s ‘crown...
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Will COVID-19 Kill The Liberal World Order?
The COVID-19 pandemic is driving the tectonic plates of great power competition, weakening the already wobbly international system. For a brief moment it seemed that the worst global pandemic in a...
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Unanswered Israeli Air Strikes Against Syria Raise S-400 Questions
The first signs of dissatisfaction with the Russian air defense systems came on May 1 when the Syria Direct website ran a story quoting what was described as a Syrian military source who criticized the...
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Poland Talks New Bases As Duda Meets At White House
As Trump takes heat from his own party over a proposed troop drawdown in Germany, new US drone and armor bases in Poland are in the works.
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New Navy Secretary Makes Surprise Trip to Norway
Braithwaite’s travel to Oslo will see him formally relinquish his ambassadorship there, a unique situation that has seen him hold two Senate-confirmed positions simultaneously.
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Congress Pushes Pentagon To Finally Kick Turkey Out Of F-35 Program
The senators wrote they “remain concerned about the direction Turkey is taking under the leadership of President Erdogan…Turkey is not behaving like a responsible actor or working collaboratively with...
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Latvia Wants US Troops, And Is Ready To Pay For Them
The Baltic country is looking to open talks with the US about putting American boots on the ground in Latvia, a move that would surely make Moscow unhappy.
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US & UK Ink Pact On Next-Gen Aircraft, Long-Range Missiles
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said the two sides would work to identify “how we could co-develop certain capabilities that can help us get the next generation weapons system, but also to be...
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JADC2: Black Sea Exercise Tests Joint Command Concepts
The Air Force experiment piggybacked on the annual Sea Breeze wargames, with ships, aircraft, and special operators from at least eight nations coming together to deter Russia.
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Trump Contradicts SecDef On Germany Withdrawal
Defense Secretary Mark Esper portrayed the plan as a strategic shift. President Trump said, “we’re reducing the force because [Germany is] not paying their bills.” Criticism from both sides of the...
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Poland Wraps Deal For Permanent US Troops, Drones, Special Ops
Poland is excited to have more US troops on the way, but military leaders warned this week that the effort to move 12,000 US troops out of Germany will take months for the planning along.
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Poland Agrees To Pay Almost All Costs of US Troop Presence
As the Pentagon starts planning to pull troops out of Germany, and demands more money from South Korea, Poland is opening its wallet to bring more Americans in.
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