Page 10 - Force Structure News Today

Malcolm Davis Malcolm Davis is a Senior Analyst in Defence Strategy and Capability programme of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He has worked with the Australian Department of Defence, both in Navy Headquarters in the Strategy and Force Structure area, and with Strategic Policy Division in the Strategic Policy Guidance and Strategic External Relations and Education sections from November 2007 to March 2012. He holds a PhD in Strategic Studies from the University of Hull as well as tw...

Hypersonic and directed-energy weapons: Who has them, and who’s winning the race in the Asia-Pacific? Mike Yeo, Nigel Pittaway, Usman Ansari, Vivek Raghuvanshi and Chris Martin March 15 Photo credit: Imaginima/Getty Images MELBOURNE, Australia, ISLAMABAD, NEW DELHI, and WASHINGTON — A number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region are caught up in the global hypersonic and directed-energy weapons race, with these regional powers having either developed or publicly stated intentions to dev...

March 18, 2015 3:38 PM An E/A-18G Growler from the Shadowhawks of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 141 prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) on Nov. 3, 2014. US Navy photo. The Pentagon’s new Electronic Warfare (EW) Executive Committee was created this week to refocus the services on matters of EW strategy and operational capability, according to the memo signed Tuesday establishing the committee. Read More ...

Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Systems Demonstration (UCAS-D). US Navy Photo The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is calling on the Department of Defense and the Navy to develop a stealthy and lethal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) aircraft, according to a Tuesday letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter obtained by USNI News. Read More → March 24, 2015 6:47 PM The following is a March...

March 20, 2015 12:04 PM Vice Adm. Robert Thomas, commander of U.S. 7th Fleet, delivers remarks during a change of command ceremony aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73). US Navy Photo The head of U.S. naval forces in the Western Pacific said the U.S. would support an emerging plan to create multi-national patrols in the South China Sea that could bear similarities to anti-piracy patrols in the Strait of Malacca. Read More → March 20, 2015 11:38 AM The followi...

April 3, 2015 12:22 PM Members of the hardline al Shabaab Islamist rebel group hold their weapons in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, January 1, 2010. Somalia’s hardline Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Friday it was ready to send reinforcement to al Qaeda in Yemen should the U.S. carry out retaliatory strikes, and urged other Muslims to follow suit. Reuters Photo Creating franchises among groups claiming affiliation with al Qaeda or the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) i...

Your more liberal challengers running for president on the democratic side. i wonder how you feel about elizabeth warren, not to get into the medicare thing with you but among the savings she wants to extract to pay for it is cutting defense spending by $1 trillion over ten years, what do you think of cutting defense spending, $1 trillion? >> i do think we can have a much better military at less cost because our commander of the pacific has said as you know last year, china commenced the western...

Capabilities that i need, from the u.s. and the coalition standpoint, to work with our afghan partners. at the same time, as a commander, im always trying to bring the footprint down, bring our force structure down. >> reporter: and the u.s. commander made it clear, hes a general, not a policy-maker, and says hell follow his chain of command and the president. were flying over kabul here in afghanistan, of course, americas longest war. and theyll tell you here that part of any end-game for u.s. ...

Taking over or someone else? >> well, again, i think mr. shanahan will have to do his old job as well, which is force structure in the pentagon. there is no question he will be an adult in the room, but the real question is is he in a position really to stand up to this sort of lineup that general mccaffrey just went through. i think chances are hes not. i think were going to see a lot of john bolton, i think we are going to see a pentagon thats more in line with boltons views and, frankly, you ...

Republican foreign policy theory that isis loves a vacuum, that russia loves a vacuum. what does donald trump create? a vacuum. there can be some discussions about how he would take down our force structure in afghanistan, in syria. what would be the rules of engagement for strikes against isis targets. i think those are legitimate issues. but when you announce out of the clear blue sky without consulting, you say, were out of here because i want one win every day to -- >> i want this bring up t...