Today, the U.S. long-range bomber fleet is the oldest, smallest, and most fragile it has ever been. Except for the B-2, U.S. bombers cannot survive in highly contested air space. Fielding a robust force of B-21s is the only way the United States can maintain ...
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The Air Force is shifting its approach from one focused on proofs of concepts and experiments to one based on developing an operational architecture and model.
Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich leads Air Forces Central, a post he assumed in July 2022 following a two-year stint as director of operations at U.S. Central Command. While global attention has shifted away from U.S. wars in the Middle East, Grynkewich’s forces support the ...
The new, public version of the National Defense Strategy, unveiled by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Oct. 27, calls out China as the U.S. military’s “pacing threat,” offers no force-sizing construct nor specifics about numbers of forces the U.S. needs.
The Space Force needs the scale and means to assert authority. This is not just about money, though that is important. And it’s not about numbers of people. It’s about establishing world-leading expertise.
Top U.S. officials aimed to explain why a new Nuclear Posture Review departs from long-held views expressed by President Joe Biden. The Biden administration's nuclear strategy retains the decades-old policy that the U.S. nuclear arsenal could be used to deter or respond to significant attacks ...
The Air Force won’t get larger anytime soon as a result of the new National Defense Strategy, and competition with China and Russia, though gravely serious, doesn’t constitute a new Cold War—mainly because of economic interdependence, said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
A new report suggests that the U.S. military’s “technological edge” could erode—the Defense Department no longer able to fulfill its commitments or to project power in the customary way—if the U.S. doesn’t become a better-informed player in the global “techno-economic competition.” To that end, a ...
The Department of Defense unveiled updated defense, nuclear, and missile defense strategies Oct. 27 that outline a fundamental shift in the world's nuclear weapons threat. DOD states that nuclear weapons underpin U.S. strategic defenses and that America will continue to invest in its nuclear forces.