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Released just before the first part of the Integrated Review is unveiled on 16 March, the latest House of Commons Defence Committee report highlighted obsolescence in the British Army armoured vehicle fleet and warned that the service is at serious risk of being outmatched by its most challenging peer adversaries.

Share Credit: U.S. Air Force The article “Will U.S. Army Missile Buys Mean Fewer U.S. Air Force Bombers?” ( AW&ST Feb. 22-March 7, p. 63) requires correction and a clear answer to the question itself. In an era when national security demands are increasing while resources allocated to defense are decreasing, leaders must prioritize solutions that optimize U.S. power-projection capabilities at best value. To those points, the choice between Air Force bombers and Army long-range missiles yiel...

Mastiff and Ridgeback upgrade was led by NP Aerospace to meet an Urgent Capability Requirement for the British Army.

The Lithuanian MND is seeking solutions in order to keep the Boxer/Vilkas programme on track. The Vice Minister of National Defence recently held a meeting with OCCAR, ARTEC and KMW to discuss potential solutions to overcome the economic effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Lightweight command launch unit offers reconnaissance capability as well as control for Stinger and Javelin missiles.

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 15, 2021 at 1:53 PM The two contenders for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), just one of 35 priority modernization programs: The Bell 360 Invictus (top) and the Sikorsky Raider-X (bottom) WASHINGTON: Officials from across the Army are thrashing out how to field a host of new weapons to combat units without disrupting readiness and training. “We’re conducting rock drills right now,” said Lt. Gen. Thomas Todd, head of acquisi...

New US Army doctrine coming summer 2022 March 15 A stinger missile team with the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, identify an unmanned aerial vehicle target, during RIMPAC 2018 at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, July 24. The training exercise is in support of the Armys Multi-Domain Task Force Pilot Program. (Sgt. 1st Class Claudio Tejada/US Army) WASHINGTON — The Army is expected to release its new doctrine, one that describes how the service will operate in the future ac...

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Biden Nominates Two Women To Lead Combatant Commands They would become just the second and third women to head up a top-level joint military command. President Joe Biden nominated two women to lead joint military commands amid a push for more diversity among the Pentagon’s top ranks. On Friday, Biden nominated Air Force Gen. Jaqueline Van Ovost to lead the U.S. Transportation Command and Army Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson to head U.S. Southern Command. Van Ovost is the head of Air Mobi...

Zachery Tyson Brown is an intelligence and national security futurist interested in the many ways in which intelligence, strategy, organizational design, and disruptive technologies intersect. A veteran military intelligence analyst who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Zach is now a National Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project, a proclaimed U.S. Army Futures Command “Mad Scientist,” and a Board Member of the Military Writers Guild. OPINION — The U.S Intelligence C...