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Steve Trimble answers: It is fair to say that the U.S. Army is on a missile-buying spree.  Since the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in December 1987, the service’s missile inventory had been limited to the 300-km (186-mi.) range of the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System and 70-km range of the M-270 Multiple Launch Rocket System. But the U.S. and Russia withdrew from the treaty on Aug. 2, 2019, freeing the Army to fill the gap in its arsenal for ground-launched bal...

Nuclear EMP Attacks Are a Threat. How Can the U.S. Air Force Defend Itself? As the Air Force strives for EMS superiority, it should concentrate on a wide range of defensive measures, such as identifying and hardening all mission-essential elements. Air Force Chief General Charles Brown tweeted on January 27, 2021, “Let me be clear, the U.S. Air Force is committed to providing Electromagnetic Spectrum [EMS] superior Air Forces to achieve victory in all domain competitions and conflict.” That...

Land Cyber Programme The Land Cyber Programme aims to integrate people with cyber and electromagnetic technologies, to exploit opportunities and gain military advantage. From: Contents Land Cyber Vision An army within the Joint Force and with Allies, naturalised to the cyber and electromagnetic domain, which integrates people with technology to exploit opportunities and gain military advantage. Programme Benefits We seek to modernise and then transform. A secure Army Digital Enterpr...

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Your Excellency, Ambassador Baye Moctar Diop, permanent representative of the Republic of Senegal to the African Union (AU) and AU Peace and Security chairperson, thank you for giving the International Crisis Group the opportunity to address the AU Peace and Security Council on this important theme of “Peace, Security and Development: Taking Security Challenges into Account in Development Financing”. It is an honour for us to be invited to this important chamber and to present to your exc...

Air Force study on future aerial refueling tanker could start in 2022 February 2 The Air Forces future aerial refueling tanker could be unmanned, like the Navys MQ-25 Stingray currently under development by Boeing. (Boeing) WASHINGTON — The Air Force could begin to lay out its vision for a future aerial refueling tanker, previously known as KC-Z, as early as next year, the head of Air Mobility Command said Monday. The service intends to conduct an analysis of alternatives for an advanced...

Biden’s ‘Smarter Approach’ to China Collides With Reality of Chinese Aggression Commentary In a Nov. 16, 2020, article for The New York Times, Ana Swanson used numerous interviews with unidentified sources who are advising President Joe Biden to sum up his “smarter approach” to China: “He [Biden] and his advisers view many of Mr. Trump’s measures, which were aimed at severing ties between the Chinese and American economies, as clumsy, costly and unstrategic. They say they want to...

Photo from UNIAN The Command of Ukraines Armed Forces has reported two wounded in action (WIA) amid five violations of the latest ceasefire agreement committed by Russia-controlled armed groups in the Donbas warzone on Friday, January 29. "In the past day, January 29, five ceasefire violations were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) zone," the press center of the Ukrainian JFO Command said on Facebook in an update as of 07:00 Kyiv time on January 30, 2021. Read alsoKravchuk: Ukraine n...

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The Next Steps For the Pentagons AI Hub Six ways the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center can accelerate the military’s use of AI. As the two-year-old Joint Artificial Intelligence Center shifts from a projects-and-products shop to the Pentagon’s hub for AI services and support, its leaders are working on priorities for “JAIC 2.0.” We suggest the center focus on six main efforts. First, accelerate efforts to develop and deploy AI for back-office applications in task management, ...