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Esper and Trump At Odds — Again; This Time, Beirut Blast
The SecDef suggested today the US is looking to Romania and the Baltics as new places to station American forces.
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US Should Stop Weapons Flowing To Libya
A growing arms race in the Eastern Mediterranean pits several U.S. allies against each other, raising the risks of confrontation between two NATO allies. The Turkish Ministry of Defense has tweeted...
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The Fuzzy Outlines Of Biden’s National Security Policies
The first outlines of what a Biden administration’s national security policy and defense budget are coming clear. The good news is that nothing signals a major change in strategy, so deep cuts and...
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Lessons for the Pacific From The European Deterrence Initiative
In the last week, China has fired an array of missiles near the Paracel Islands, clearly intended to shape the attitudes and actions of the United States and our fellow Pacific friends and...
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Norway Expands Key Arctic Port For More US Nuke Sub Visits
“The Seawolf deployment, the joint B-52 flights over Norway last month, and our carrier going north of Arctic Circle…all speak to a greater show of US presence in the Arctic/High North,” said Rachel...
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Details Still Scant On Trump’s German Plans
“We are in the planning stages at this point,” Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander, Air Forces in Europe/Africa, told reporters today.
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Military AI Coalition Of 13 Countries Meets On Ethics
The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center convened a dozen foreign partners, ranging from NATO allies to Israel, Japan, Korea, and neutral Finland & Sweden.
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Eye On Africa, Navy’s New Ship Homeports in Crete
As Russian fighters fly in Libya and Turkey steps up operations in the region, the US just put its new sea base capable to surging Marines and commandos ashore into Crete
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US OKs F-35s & F-18s For Finland Fighter Fight
The new fighters are part of a much larger modernization effort in Helsinki that includes replacing seven retiring guided missile ships with four bleeding edge multirole corvettes.
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Trump’s German Withdrawal Plans ‘Extremely Expensive’
President Trump proposed re-stationing 11,900 US troops from Germany back in July. The redeployment of some to other European countries, with others coming home produced an avalanche of criticism....
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Esper’s New Push For Allies; Gilday Unveils ‘Tech Bridge’ To Royal Navy
The new plan will focus on four areas, “underwater, our carrier programs, our Marines — so working with the US Marine Corps and their drive for distributed warfare — and linking that with what we want...
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Trump Admin Sets Allied Defense Spending Targets, Taiwan Deals Lead Way
“If anything, the provocations are coming from Beijing. The bullying behavior…is where the provocateurs lie, not with Taiwan [which is] maintaining its own self defense,” a top State Department...
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Why Those 780 Top National Security Leaders Support Biden
Speaking publicly and in alarming terms about a partisan political issue does not come naturally to retired generals and former senior national security leaders. These public servants, many of them...
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Some Democrats Sour On F-35 Sale To UAE
“The Trump Administration has made it clear that they’ll put lethal weaponry in just about anyone’s hands without regard to potential loss of life so long as the check clears,” Rep. Eliot Engel says.
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On Eve of Election, US Kicks Off Cost Sharing Talks With Japan
Given the deal’s March expiration, and despite the upcoming US election, the State Department’s R. Clarke Cooper said “it’s incumbent upon us and our Japanese counterparts to actually continue to...
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‘Mission Impossible?’ Interoperability Across Arab States
Enhancing interoperability across Arab states’ defense systems remains a holy grail that even alliances such as NATO find hard to achieve.
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Budget Up, French Army Preps For Major Wargames With US
After decades fighting guerrillas and terrorists, France is refocusing on Russia and China with increased budgets, intensified training, stronger divisions, and new armored vehicles — much like the US....
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The Fuzzy Outlines Of Biden’s National Security Policies
The first outlines of what a Biden administration’s national security policy and defense budget are coming clear. The good news is that nothing signals a major change in strategy, so deep cuts and...
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Lessons for the Pacific From The European Deterrence Initiative
In the last week, China has fired an array of missiles near the Paracel Islands, clearly intended to shape the attitudes and actions of the United States and our fellow Pacific friends and...
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Norway Expands Key Arctic Port For More US Nuke Sub Visits
“The Seawolf deployment, the joint B-52 flights over Norway last month, and our carrier going north of Arctic Circle…all speak to a greater show of US presence in the Arctic/High North,” said Rachel...
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