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Air Force cyber school will add online training tool (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau  The Air Force school to prepare airmen to become high-end cyber defenders will introduce an online training tool in its upcoming curriculum. https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2021/05/05/air-force-cyber-school-will-add-online-training-tool/

Raytheon wins $228 million GPS ground system contract (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space a $228 million contract for the follow-on control system for the GPS satellite constellation. https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2021/05/05/raytheon-wins-228-million-gps-ground-system-contract/

Belarus – Belarusian State-Run TV Scores Propaganda Victories (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe In his April 29 interview to Euronews, Belarus’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei had this to say about the crackdown on the protest movement that...

Chechnya/Ingushetia – Chechen Officials and Ingush Activists Agree to Meet to Discuss Border Issues (The Jamestown Foundation)

Valery Dzutsati Chechen officials and Ingush activists reached an agreement to hold negotiations on the contentious administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. https://jamestown.org/program/chechen-officials-and-ingush-activists-agree-to-meet-to-discuss-border-issues/

Russian UAV Technology and Loitering Munitions (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott During the ongoing modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces, increasing attention has turned to developing and exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned combat...

Russia’s Defense-Industrial Complex at a Crossroads: Aura Versus Reality (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin President Vladimir Putin’s remarks about possibly nationalizing the Russian defense industry (DI) (Interfax, March 31) reinvigorated a debate on measures to optimize this...

Making Sense of the ‘Semenchenko’s PMC’ Affair (The Jamestown Foundation)

Alla Hurska On March 24, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced it had exposed and impeded the activity of two illegal private military companies...

Russia/Ukraine – Ukrainians Fear Moscow May Use Their Co-Ethnics in Russia in Provocation to Restart War (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble A recent wave of arrests of ethnic Ukrainians across the Russian Federation for supposedly organizing extremist groups and planning terrorist attacks has sparked...

A New Concert of Powers: Another Substitution? (Valdai Discussion Club)

Richard Sakwa The Yalta-Helsinki international system is far from perfect, but rather than further undermining it through ad hoc arrangements of one sort or another,...

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