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(Yemen/Saudi Arabia) Yemen’s Houthis Claim Missile Strike on Saudi Aramco Plant (The Defense Post)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed a missile strike Thursday on a plant of energy giant Saudi Aramco in the western Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah...

(USA) Biden’s first budget should reduce nuclear excess (Defense News)

Kingston Reif As the Biden administration begins crafting its defense budget submission for fiscal 2022, the debate about how it should handle the U.S. nuclear arsenal is...

(USA) US Army’s unmanned aircraft rodeo firms up requirements for Shadow replacement (Defense News)

Jen Judson The U.S. Army is putting the finishing touches on its requirements for a replacement for its Shadow unmanned aircraft system as it conducts a week-long rodeo...

(USA) Biden national security guidance calls to increase diplomacy, downplay nukes, end Afghanistan conflict (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta In an “interim” security strategy document released Wednesday afternoon, the White House emphasized that the Biden administration views diplomacy as its first tool for national...

(USA) Surface ship readiness continues to struggle, US Navy inspections show (Defense News)

David B. Larter The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet continues to struggle to keep its ships adequately maintained, according to the Board of Inspection and Survey, an entity...

(USA) Space Force chief says he’s working on a declassification strategy, but offers scant details (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The head of the U.S. Space Force said the nascent service is developing a declassification strategy for space, but he could not share...

(USA) Lawmakers propose check on Biden’s war powers (Defense News)

Joe Gould A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday to repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force in the...

(Israel) Here’s how Israel can maintain an advantage in the aerial systems race (Defense News)

Shachar Shohat and Yair RamatI For the past century, ever since the arrival of the aircraft on history’s stage as an effective and significant military combat tool,...

(USA/China) Why Biden’s new China czar requires comprehensive policy authorities (Defense News)

Lt. Col. Matthew R. Crouch and Christopher P. Mulder The Biden administration’s national security team is facing a series of complex and interrelated challenges. The common denominator...

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