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ISIS. What Does ISIS Want Now? (Defense One)

Graeme Wood Fifty years ago, John Kerry asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a question that is probably occurring to many Americans right now: “How...

Italy. Fincantieri in talks about buying Leonardo’s naval gun business (Defense News)

Tom Kington Italian shipyard Fincantieri is holding early talks with Italy’s Leonardo to acquire its naval gun manufacturing operation, formerly known as Oto Melara. The deal, if...

USA. US Army’s recon, electronic warfare-capable aircraft flies for the first time (Defense News)

Jen Judson L3Harris Technologies said it has flown for the first time a new U.S. Army technology demonstrator aircraft that will be capable of conducting both reconnaissance and...

USA. 2 companies win contracts to research cyber protections for military aircraft (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded contracts to Booz Allen Hamilton and Ball Aerospace to research advanced cybersecurity and digital engineering to protect aircraft...

Norway/Arctic. Norway sets timeline to deploy sub-hunting aircraft in the Arctic (Defense News)

Gerard O'Dwyer Norway’s announcement that it plans to deploy P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft to the Arctic in 2022 marks significant progress in the country’s long-term effort...

Russia/Ukraine. Blind, Confuse and Demoralize: Russian Electronic Warfare Operations in Donbas (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin Moscow’s rapid and mostly bloodless annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in February–March 2014, followed a month later by the Russian-fueled instability and military confrontation...

Afghanistan. Charting Mass Internal Displacement in Afghanistan (CSIS)

Matthew P. Funaiole e Erol Yayboke As the Taliban strengthen their control over Afghanistan, a large-scale internal displacement crisis is unfolding. Charting Mass Internal Displacement in...

Afghanistan/NATO. Fall of Kabul: Inconvenient Truths for NATO (CSIS)

Rachel Ellehuus e Pierre Morcos Since 2001, the United States and its NATO allies and partners had been heavily committed in Afghanistan, where more than 3,500...

What Is DoD Buying? Defense Acquisition Trends 2020 (CSIS)

Rhys McCormick This paper analyzes the trends in what DoD is buying using data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). It examines the trends...

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