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Boeing Nets $14.7B Contract To Triple PAC-3 MSE Seeker Output
Army Tech. Boeing seekers help Patriot interceptors identify, track and engage aircraft, hypersonic, ballistic and cruise missiles.
Troops Can't 'AI' Their Way to Victory on the Battlefield
Morgan Phillips, Fox News Acting chief GEN Christopher LaNeve shared the U.S. Army's modernization shifts amid a rapid surge in tech usage and threats
The Myth of Military Victory
Stephen Biddle, Sam Winter-Levy & Yuri Zhukov, Foreign Affairs The Dangerous Idea Driving Today's Wars of Choice
The Prophet of Sea Power
Francis P. Sempa, Modern Age Alfred Thayer Mahan steered America's course with a steady hand of Christian realism
Air Force's Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile Has First Flight Test
T. South, A&SF HACM came out of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop a concept for a hypersonic air-breathing weapon
U.S. Navy Warship Sensor Deal Could Reach $1.7B
Colton Jones, Defence Blog The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $209 million contract modification for AN/SLQ-32(V)6 electronic warfare systems, with options worth up to $1.7 billion
Army Grounds Fleet of AH-64Es for Second Time in Three Months
P. Nieberg, T&P An Army official said the service is grounding about 400 helicopters, more than half of its AH-64 fleet
'Preparing to Fire': U.S. Navy's Enforcing the U.S. Blockade of Iran
WSJ Audio recordings capture months of warnings, confusion and attacks in blockade on Iranian oil exports
Anduril Dives Into Submarine Construction
Howard Altman, The WarZone The plans for the new facility to build submarine components were announced as the Navy is struggling to meet its delivery goals
Marine F-35C Also Sports Three Submarine Kill Markings
Cenciotti, The Aviationist The Aviationist reveals an extraordinary array of target markings on a VMFA-314 F-35C
U.S. Army's Improved M8 Rifle To Begin Fielding in December
H. Seck, Military.com Fielding of the M8 carbine, which appears set to replace Sig Sauer's M7 as the Army's standard rifle less than three years after the M7's initial fielding began
No Stress, No Star
Donald Vandergriff A remote e-learning package cannot select commanders for mission command. It will only certify the officers the current system already prefers.
The Russian Spy Who Couldn't Perform
Gerard Baker, The Wall Street Journal Ben Macintyre's new book emphasizes how history sometimes hinges on quirky twists of fate
Pentagon Leadership in AI Is a Humanitarian Imperative
M.P. Reddy, RCDefense in a world with at least four governments willing to use force, coercion, and terror without restraint, the question of whose technology reaches military maturity first
What It Takes To Succeed as Secretary of the Navy
J. Lehman & A. Toprani, BrDefense The US Navy faces its most challenging period since the end of the Cold War
War Plan Taiwan
Nathan K. Finney, Military Review OPLAN 5077 and the U.S. Struggle for the Pacific
The Army Needs Unmanned Systems Competence Across the Force
J Clark, MWI A soldier moving without understanding aerial observation, electronic signatures, and enemy sensing operates at a fatal disadvantage
Australia's Security Race in the South Pacific
G. Dobell, Strategic Analysis Australia Waging a "permanent contest" with China in the South Pacific, Australia is building new alliances and a new security system
The Odyssey as American Epic
Bradley Haley, Modern Age Patrick Deneen's new book explores how home makes us human
Hegseth Plans 'Autonomous Warfare Command'
Bradley Peniston, Defense One
Beware the Rise of the 'Pentagon-Silicon Complex'
Webb Wright, Gizmodo
Man, Still Falling
Waters and Mering, RealClearHistory People move forward. When children grow into adults, leave home, and start families of their own, they civilize and re-civilize the world through
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