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Army to stand up multi-domain task force in Germany defense Army to stand up multi-domain task force in Germany A member of a Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector) Share Apr 13, 2...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 13, 2021 at 10:56 AM Lockheed’s prototype Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) fires from an Army HIMARS launcher truck WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is reversing Trump’s planned withdrawals from Germany and instead beefing up the Army’s capability to wage long-range, high-tech warfare, the Army announced this morning. The long-awaited announcement comes as 40,000 Russian troops mass along the border with Ukraine. The Trump Administration had planned to pull...

US adds 500 troops in Germany, ends large-scale troop cut plans despite Trump pledge: SECDEF 15 hours ago Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade prepare to board a UH-60 Black Hawk for a live-fire air assault during Operation Rock Frost on Dec. 9 at Grafenwöhr Training Area, Germany. (Maj. Robert Fellingham/Army) BERLIN — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday that he is expanding the U.S. military presence in Germany by 500 troops and has stopped planning for large-sca...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced plans to permanently base hundreds more U.S. troops to Germany, where the former Trump administration wanted to withdraw nearly 12,000 service members.

Army tries to muscle into Pacific as budget battle looms Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner The Armys case for more funding to field combat systems to fight China at first glance appears geared toward a budget battle with the Navy and Air Force, the services that long have dominated the Pacific region. But the ground services vision actually pits it against the Marine Corps in a possible David vs. Goliath funding fight. Deterring China typically has fallen to th...

“This is a journey to see whats possible, what can we do with todays technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” -- $23 million. By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 05, 2021 at 2:42 PM

By CAITLIN M. KENNEY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 16, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Army needs to reinvigorate how it trains, equips and positions troops in the Arctic region as competition with Russia and China grows, according to the service’s new strategy document released Tuesday. “Were seeing that many of our competitors are focused on the Arctic, and also many of our allies and partners have concern about that competition,” Gen. James McConville, the Army’s chief of staff, sa...

March 17, 2021 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is on a week-long trip to Asia. Ahead of his two-day visit to India from March 21 to 23, there is speculation that New Delhi could have a ‘much bigger role’ to play in the US’ Indo-Pacific architecture.  The US and Japan on Tuesday singled out China, blaming it for coercion and aggression, and posing a threat to the Indo-Pacific region. Secretary Austin held talks with his Japanese counterpart Nobuo Kishi in Tokyo, as part of 2+2 discussio...

When high-tech enemies hack and jam communications, “small units need to be able to operate on their own,” the Army Chief of Staff said. “If they are not masters of their craft, they are not going to be able to do that.” By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 16, 2021 at 2:18 PM

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 12, 2021 at 12:52 PM Launch of Army-Navy Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) in Hawaii on March 19, 2020. Gen. James McConville By building new Multi-Domain Task Force units armed with long-range missiles, “what we want to do as a service is provide the combatant commander…multiple options,” the Army Chief of Staff, Gen. James McConville, told the Defense Writers Group on Thursday. “A wider base of long-range precision fires… enabled by all ou...