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Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stated that the enemy troops are building up in Belarus. — Ukrinform.

U.S. foreign and defense policy has reached a critical juncture. In an astonishingly brief period of time, the world—and America’s place in it—has changed dramatically. During this period, presidential elections, the financial crisis, and government shutdown politics largely supplanted overseas engagements and foreign affairs in the minds of the White House and Congress. The swearing-in of a new Congress and a new majority party in the Senate provides an important opportunity to reassess t...

One result of the Quarterly Defense Review should be a rethinkingand restructuring of the Joint National Training Capability. Whatis needed is a global training base, capable of training missionsacross the threat matrix anywhere in the world, that can be builtby leveraging existing resources and proven means and provide acost-effective way to provide unprecedented transformationalcapabilities.

A Russian missile has killed two people in NATO member Poland, a senior US intelligence official has told the AP news agency.

The Coast Guard, with its multiple missions, maritime expertise,military discipline, and civil law enforcement authority, plays anintegral role in ensuring our nation's security both at home andabroad.

Postponing the Day of Reckoning:  Independent Panel Fails toGive Congress a Defense Policy Road Map

 

While Project Convergence’s first big test, the Army’s “experiment at scale for a combined arms operations,” was deemed a great success, the service must resist the urge to scale-up so rapidly that the events lose their value as experiments or become a fat target for budget cutters.

Before the arms race with the Soviet Union came the hiring race among U.S. military bureaucracies.

A man has opened fire on an enlistment centre and another recruitment office has been attacked with Molotov cocktails – after Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of at least 300,000 men in Russia.