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UK Shifting Strategy After Russian Invasions: Philip Dunne
WASHINGTON: Prompted by the recent increase in aggressive actions by Russia, Britain’s head of defense procurement says his country is shifting its strategy in reaction. “We are refreshing our national...
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Boeing’s Italian Tanker Refuels US F-35A; First Foreign Refueling
This is one of those intriguing benchmarks that illustrates several things about both the F-35 program — it means a lot to allies — and to the Italian tanker program — it works. Irritatingly, I knew...
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Pentagon Issues Surface — A Bit — At Presidential Debate
At last night’s debate for those with a real shot at the nomination, there was an inverse proportion between the putative Republican presidential candidates’ places in the polls and the detail of...
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Russians ‘Closed The Gap’ For A2/AD: Air Force Gen. Gorenc
AFA CONFERENCE: “The alarming thing,” said the commander of US Air Forces in Europe, is that the Russians are catching up. “They’ve closed the gap.” “The advantage that we had from the air I can...
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Upgraded Radios, Networks Needed For Russian Challenge; Troops Fine: Lt. Gen....
RESTON, VA: US command and control networks take too long to link to allies and respond to Russia’s rapid-fire aggression. In Ukraine, “we’ve had at least two, maybe three of these cycles [already,...
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Russian Threat Drives Lockheed’s JASSM Sales
[Updated with Bryan Clark analysis] Lockheed Martin doesn’t like to say it, but their best salesman isn’t getting a bonus this year. That’s because his name is Vladimir Putin. An increasingly...
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Russians In Syria Building A2/AD ‘Bubble’ Over Region: Breedlove
WASHINGTON: In keeping with its increasingly aggressive behavior over the past two years, Russia is deploying lethal and long-ranged anti-aircraft defenses to keep Western forces out of three key...
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Russia Builds ‘Arc Of Steel': Adm. Ferguson
WASHINGTON: “We are observing the manifestation of a more aggressive, more capable Russian navy,” the US Navy’s top commander in Europe said today. And if that fleet is Putin’s seagoing hammer, missile...
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Russian Threat Dominates AUSA: SecDef, Army Leaders
AUSA: “Russia has used political, economic, and military tools to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of neighboring countries, flouted international legal norms, and destabilized the...
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Hey Putin, NATO Can Adapt: Trident Juncture 2015
WASHINGTON: 35,000 NATO and partner-nation troops. 140 aircraft. 60 naval vessels. 30 nations. But who are they fighting? When planning began two years ago for NATO’s largest wargames since 2002, the...
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Europe Needs Intel, Ships, & Focus: Gen. Breedlove
WASHINGTON: NATO‘s supreme commander is on a pilgrimage to the Pentagon to ask for three things. Gen. Philip Breedlove wants more intelligence support, more naval power, and continued focus on the...
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US Must Do More To Deter ‘Reckless’ Russia: Farkas
WASHINGTON: Until 5pm last Friday, Evelyn Farkas was the Pentagon’s top policy expert on Russia. At 8am this morning, the recently liberated Farkas proposed a Russia policy much more assertive than...
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Is Winter Coming? Or, Our Russia Strategy
In Washington, and across the globe, many ask if Russian actions represent a new challenge to international order, and, if so, what is the best course of action to respond to it. Defense Secretary Ash...
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‘Vive La France,’ Says SecDef Carter; Hollande Pledges ‘Pitiless War’ On...
WASHINGTON: The cowards who killed at least 129 unarmed innocents in Paris this evening have provoked the French nation, perhaps beyond endurance. America’s Defense Secretary Ash Carter called the...
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‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head
NGA HEADQUARTERS: If you want further proof of the damage that Edward Snowden has wrought on American intelligence capabilities, look at the relative ease with which the Paris terrorists planned,...
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Arab Spring To Paris Fall: A Strategic Shift in the Works
President Francois Hollande of France arrives Tuesday in Washington for talks with President Obama. Top of the list will be how much America is willing to commit to destroying Daesh, the terrorist...
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Britain To Buy P-8s, Reaffirms Full F-35 Buy; Doubling Special Forces Spending
WASHINGTON: The British have released their Strategic Defense Review, declaring they will plug the gaping hole in their anti-submarine warfare capabilities by buying nine P-8s from Boeing and showing...
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How To Stop Islamic State’s Escalation Dominance
While President Barack Obama’s declared both that the U.S. is hitting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “harder than ever” and that progress in the campaign to degrade and defeat the group “needs to...
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Doing The Basil: Stalin 2.0 Must Prompt NATO Soul Searching
Russia has just released its new strategy document formally identifying the United States and NATO as a threat to Russian interests, a new step since the last publication in 2009. NATO is welcoming the...
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North Korean H-Bomb? Unlikely. What Will China Do?
WASHINGTON: The hysteric delivery on North Korea’s official news channel about her country’s attempt to explode a hydrogen bomb doesn’t mean the crippled land south of China actually succeeded. The...
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