Having focused the services’ modernization efforts around seven Operational Imperatives designed to accelerate the injection of new capabilities into the force, Kendall is now setting his sights on organizational impediments to change.
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The 70th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing is teaching some of its Arabic- and Pashto-speaking Airmen how to speak Chinese as part of preparations for possible conflict in the Pacific.
The U.S.’s top military officer spoke with his Chinese counterpart on Dec. 21, the first senior-level military-to-military talks between the two countries in more than a year, the Pentagon said. In a video call, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Charles ...
The U.S. can’t match China plane-for-plane or ship-for-ship and shouldn’t try, defense experts told the House Armed Services Committee. But the defense industrial base has to be married to new, asymmetric, disruptive operational concepts that the Pentagon is willing to adapt on the fly.
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Recent Chiefs put the Air Force on the right course. Allvin’s mission is to deliver on those promises.
The U.S. and the Philippines conducted a three-day aerial exercise together last week, with fighters from both nations operating over the strategically vital South China Sea. The joint drill ran from Nov. 21-23, with two U.S. F-15 Eagles flying alongside two Philippines Air Force FA-50s, ...
It's urgent the Air Force speed the delivery of new F-16Vs and upgrades to older ones in Taiwan, given the rising provocations by China in the Taiwan Strait, 24 Republican members of Congress wrote in a letter to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman highlighted the danger posed by China’s anti-satellite (ASAT) missile capabilities as one of the Space Force’s biggest challenges as the young service nears its fourth birthday.
WORLD: Indo-Pacific: DOD's China Report; Pentagon Declassifies Chinese Intercepts.
China’s military is looking to expand its reach around the globe and build up its strategic capabilities, with aggressive conventional and nuclear missile programs, according to a Pentagon report released Oct. 19. Among the new developments noted in the updated annual China Military Power Report, the People’s ...
Chinese aircraft have engaged in many more risky intercepts of U.S. planes over the past two years than was previously publicly known, the Pentagon said Oct. 17. There have been more than 180 dangerous incidents over the South and East China Seas during that period, ...
