American and Western officials have grown increasingly concerned about Arctic security and Russia’s threat to the region, and even as Russia’s military has been degraded by its losses in Ukraine, its Arctic forces remain strong, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic ...
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The U.S. and Israel kicked off a massive combined weeklong military exercise Jan. 23, the largest since Israel was moved to U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility in 2021. U.S. officials told Air & Space Forces Magazine the exercise, dubbed Juniper Oak, was notable in ...
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Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David W. Allvin: “Within our Air Force, we were experimenting with ways that we could fuse data, doing these experiments that showed that you could actually cross domains and be able to get a better solution ...
As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, a bipartisan commission of academics, ex-diplomats, and former defense officials is recommending the U.S. and South Korea begin “pre-decisional” discussions about what it would take to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons to the region—even as the group maintains that ...
China thoroughly restructured its military to defeat the U.S., and that's why the Air Force is making deterring and beating China its top priority, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, even before the National Defense Strategy named China as America's "pacing military threat."
The U.S. and Japan are expanding their security commitment into space as part of a series of new actions aimed at bolstering the countries' defenses against China and other threats in the Pacific. U.S. officials said “attacks to, from, or within space” could lead to ...
For months now, Ukraine has faced a barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks, straining its Soviet-era air defenses. But as the U.S. and its allies work to provide Ukraine with upgraded technology to defend against those strikes, an open-source intelligence analysis has found the ...