F-22s from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, will initially fill in for F-15Cs as they begin to leave Kadena Air Base, Japan, but the Air Force is eyeing a later and longer deployment of F-16s from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, to reinforce the island base. ...
As concerns have risen in Washington about a potential Iranian attack against U.S. partners in the region, F-22 Raptors have deployed to the Middle East and performed operations alongside F-15E Strike Eagles, according to U.S. Central Command. The deployment demonstrates "CENTCOM's ability to move combat ...
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.
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.
The new, public version of the National Defense Strategy, unveiled by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at the Pentagon, again calls out China as the U.S. military’s “pacing threat” but offers no force-sizing construct nor any specifics about numbers of forces the U.S. needs ...
The United States and allies will help Ukraine build a more comprehensive air defense system to protect key targets from Russian attacks by cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and aircraft, U.S. officials said. "What Ukraine is asking for and what we think can be provided is ...
The Biden administration’s long-awaited National Security Strategy predicts that the 2020s will be a “decisive decade,” requiring the U.S. to “outmaneuver” and compete with an aggressive, well-financed China and a “dangerous” Russia by investing in the American people and marshaling U.S. allies to cooperate for ...
The top general in charge of the defense of North America delivered a sobering account of Russian and Chinese threats and described his command's ability to detect and defend against a cruise missile attack as little more than a "picket fence." The U.S. homeland is ...
Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa; Lt. Gen. James C. “Jim” Slife, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command; Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, commander of Air Forces Central; and Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart, head of the 19th ...
A fresh package of $625 million in military aid to Ukraine will include more than 200 heavily armored vehicles, additional HIMARS rocket launchers and hundreds of thousands of rounds of artillery and mortars, the Pentagon announced. Military aid provided by the U.S. since Russia's invasion ...
With the Russian army pummeling Ukraine in Europe, and China increasingly threatening its neighbor Taiwan militarily in the Indo-Pacific, the Air National Guard has embraced the culture of can-do innovation at the core of agile combat employment.