As Costs Rise, End-of-Life Planning is Mission-Critical for Military Families
For service members, veterans, and their families, financial readiness has always been part of the mission.
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A Coast Guardsman’s Fight to Hold His Son Again
As a machinery technician in the Coast Guard, William Hamilton III spent nine years making sure the boat got to those who needed saving.
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Short-range air defense is making a comeback
In 2020, short-range air defenses have made a comeback, and this time they are set to remain as a permanent fixture.
By Brig. Gen. Shachar Shohat (ret.)
Defense industry worries Congress will punt budget deal into 2021
As Congress readies a stopgap spending measure this week, the defense industry is girding for a long-term funding patch that could delay both new procurement programs and needed fiscal certainty into next year.
By Joe Gould
Coronavirus has kept us close to home. It’s a helpful lesson for strengthening national defense.
The U.S. Defense Department must throw open its doors to innovators and free itself to make bets; if it does, it will get more world-class tools for its mission owners.
By Justin P. Oberman
Reshoring does not mean ‘Buy America’ only
Protectionist efforts are wrong-headed because they are not strictly focused on the real problem in our industrial base, namely the dependencies on companies based in adversarial countries such as China.
By Jerry McGinn
Chinese military calls US biggest threat to world peace
China’s Defense Ministry on Sunday blasted a critical U.S. report on the country’s military ambitions, saying it is the U.S. instead that poses the biggest threat to the international order and world peace.
Biden not planning defense cuts, but they may come anyway
Former Vice President Joe Biden said this week that, if elected president, he doesn’t foresee major reductions in the U.S. defense budget as the military refocuses its attention to potential threats from “near-peer” powers such as China and Russia.
By Joe Gould
Hungary is Rheinmetall’s launch customer for the Lynx fighting vehicle
Executives celebrated the order as a key deal for the company, following an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Army’s Bradley replacement program last year.
New Pentagon directive will put programs on more solid ground, says MDA boss
Updates to the Missile Defense Agency's charter will make programs internally developed more solid, its director said at the Defense News Conference.
By Jen Judson
AI’s dogfight triumph a step toward human-machine teaming
The Pentagon’s director of research and engineering for modernization says it’s more likely that an AI will team with military pilots than replace them.
By Joe Gould
US general says Russian and Chinese deals in Latin America risk destabilizing region
Lt. Gen. Michael Plehn compared Chinese and Russian dealings in the Western Hemisphere with criminal organizations.
By David B. Larter