Tag: Defense One

The NDAA Likely Won’t Become Law Until 2022. That’s ‘Not The End of the World’ (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

It’s looking more and more likely that the annual defense policy bill will not become law in 2021. Congress frequently has an end-of-calendar-year push to...

Space Force Has a Plan for Training Its Troops. Now It Must Figure Out What They Need to Learn (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Unlike its earthbound sister services, the Space Force can’t simply head out to some terrestrial exercise range to train its troops, develop new tactics,...

US Needs Indo-Pacific Force ‘Enhancements,’ Global Posture Review Finds (Tara Copp, Defense One)

The Biden administration has approved the Pentagon’s 2021 Global Posture Review, which calls for more rotations and presence in the Indo-Pacific at the cost...

Space Force Has a Plan for Training Its Troops. Now It Needs to Figure Out What They Need to Learn to Do (Patrick Tucker,...

Unlike its earthbound sister services, the Space Force can’t simply head out to some terrestrial exercise range to train its troops, develop new tactics,...

Inside the Data-Driven Operation that Moved Afghan Refugees from Dulles to Safe Havens (Col. Matthew Strohmeyer, Grace Hwang, Lt. Col. Cichelle Macander, Erol YayBoke,...

When the phone rang for Brig. Gen. Mark Weber on Aug. 22, it wasn’t the order that the chief of staff of the Montana...

Expand Five Eyes to Nine? That’s Four Too Many (Aki Peritz, Defense One)

The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the must-pass defense authorization bill right after the Thanksgiving break. When they do, they should strip...

Congress should support the Biden administration’s effort to sell defensive missiles to Saudi Arabia (Bradley Bowman, Hussain Abdul-Hussain and Ryan Brobst, Defense News)

A fight is brewing within the Democratic party over whether to permit the sale of defensive air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration’s...

Americans Want to Defend Taiwan. The Pentagon’s Budget Should, Too (Chet Lee, Defense One)

In recent polling, a greater share of the American public than ever supports using the U.S. military to defend Taiwan from China’s aggression. More...

Ukraine Wants More Exercises, Training with US (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

The frozen conflict between Russia and Ukraine has entered a dangerous new phase, according to Ukrainian officials. More Russian troops and arms have been sent to...

China May Steal Encrypted Data Now to Decrypt In Years to Come, Report Warns (Brandi Vincent, Defense One)

Though they are years from being fully realized, quantum technologies are altering the U.S. cyber threat landscape in serious ways and organizations should start...

On Deadline Day, 90% of US Feds Are COVID-Vaxxed (Eric Katz, Defense One)

About 90% of the federal workforce is vaccinated against COVID-19, the Biden administration announced on the deadline day for the more than 3.5 million...

Pentagon Scrambles to Defend ‘Juicy Targets’ After Rivals’ Space Tests (Tara Copp, Defense One)

Russia’s direct ascent anti-satellite launch Monday is adding urgency to the U.S. Space Force’s efforts to better defend U.S. space assets, and has left...

Are Naval Forces on the Right Path? Leaders Run Wargame to Check (Caitilin M. Kenney, Defense One)

Top naval leaders attended a tabletop wargame Wednesday whose Pacific-conflict scenario was meant to help determine whether their decisions about capabilities and platforms have...

The US Must Turn the Tables on Russia’s Psyops (Ivana Stradner, Defense One)

Andrei Ilnitsky, an advisor to the Russian defense minister, maintains that the U.S. is waging a “psychological war” against Russia. If only. Since the Cold War, America’s...

What Worked, What Didn’t at Army’s Second Connect-Everything Experiment (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

If last year’s edition of the U.S. Army’s massive connect-everything experiment was a proof of concept, this year’s was a far bigger effort to...

Belarus Is Laying Tinder for a War. How Will NATO Respond? (Elisabeth Braw, Defense One)

Belarus Is Laying Tinder for a War. How Will NATO Respond? If you wanted to cause a war, here’s a formula with high odds of...