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Daily on Defense: Army Corps races to reopen Baltimore port, White House rolls out AI rules, Houthis target US warship

The budgetary adjustment calls for improved military capabilities, efforts to maintain troop levels and the modernization of defense facilities.

The budgetary adjustment calls for improved military capabilities, efforts to maintain troop levels and the modernization of defense facilities.

The ongoing war in Israel, driven by Iranian-backed proxy armies, highlights critical lessons in intelligence, deterrence, AI-driven warfare, and the imperative of moral clarity that America must heed to prepare for the challenges ahead.

The evolving landscape of modern warfare, marked by recent conflicts and technological advancements, necessitates a profound reimagining of U.S. military strategies and readiness to ensure effective deterrence and decisive victories in potential peer confrontations.

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. As I was putting together my notes about all the Army’s Project Convergence Exercises, I got a notice that the planned PC-23 exercises had been cancelled and rescheduled for 2024. That’s a great disappointment, so let's drown our sorrows in a vintage bottle of data from the three previous exercises: PC-20, PC-21, and PC-22.

South Koreas military will bring in a more effective operational concept with the aim of neutralizing threats from North Koreas evolving nuclear and missile systems even from a prelaunch stage, the defense ministry said Friday.

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. Let’s take a break from studying the Kill Web and explore something else. Back in the late 1940s, Harvard linguist George Kingsley Zipf picked up a copy of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” and read it. Although it was acclaimed by the pompous literary pundits in rumpled suits as a masterpiece, Zipf could not believe how incomprehensible and boring it was. In case you were not exposed to it in college, reading “Ulysse...

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. If you have been a fervent reader of these Kill Web articles, you know that the Army has been connecting their sensors and weapons together into a tactical network under their IBCS initiative (Integrated Battle Command System). The Navy has been secretly connecting their ships and planes together with their CEC program (Cooperative Engagement Capability). The same goes for the Air Force’s planes under their ABMS initiative (Advanced Battle Management System) and...

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. So far, we have covered the Army (IBCS), the Navy (CEC), and the Space Force (SF-ABMS) programs. So now it’s time to explore what the Air Force is doing to join the Kill Web. Their primary effort is called ABMS (Advanced Battle Management System), that seeks to connect all their aircraft, weapons, and sensors together into a tactical mesh network where they can talk to each other in real time. Maybe the best way to present this information is by comparison to wh...