Tag: Defense One

An Army Pilot Just Re-Invented Flight Training for the Digital Era (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

A novel idea from an Army helicopter pilot could change the way pilots across the military and civil aviation advance their flying skills. It...

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical Records (Isaac Arnsdorf, Defense One)

Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data,...

Playing Defense Against Terrorism Is Totally Fine (Luke Hartig, Defense One)

If you’ve turned on any cable-news channel or opened any newspaper or magazine since most of Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last month, you can see a clear narrative emerging: The...

To Deter China, Relearn The Lost Art of Dissuasion (Bryan Clark, Dan Patt, Defense One)

In its upcoming defense strategy, the Biden administration will attempt to balance challenges from an increasingly capable Chinese military against fiscal constraints imposed by other domestic spending...

Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse (Saahil Desai, Defense One)

For years now, artificial intelligence has been hailed as both a savior and a destroyer. The technology really can make our lives easier, letting...

AUKUS: Good Goals, Bad Implementation (Bradley Bowman, Mark Montgomery, Defense One)

Eyeing an increasingly formidable Chinese military, the United States needs all the help it can get in the Indo-Pacific. That was Washington’s primary motivation...

Racial Division, Troops’ Role in Protests Has Hurt Minority Recruiting, Air Force Says (Tara Copp, Defense One)

U.S. Air Force basic military graduation Apr. 16, 2020, at the 320th Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. U.S. AIR...

Biden Just Gave France Something More Valuable than a Submarine Contract (Kevin Baron, Defense One)

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) talks to US President Joe Biden before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the North Atlantic Treaty...

Learn to Use Data or Risk Dying in Battle, New Army Project Teaches (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Soldiers from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, track an unmanned aerial systems (UAS) threat during a scenario as part of Black...

Air Force Secretary Warns of China’s Burgeoning Nuclear Arsenal, Reveals B-21 Detail (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

China could be heading for a first-strike nuclear capability, the U.S. Air Force secretary said Monday, urging the United States to accelerate its own...

Biden Counters China’s Allegations Of A New ‘Cold War’ In UN Speech (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

Even as the Pentagon focuses on competing with China and Russia, the United States is not seeking another world-dividing Cold War, President Joe Biden...

Why France Is Getting No Sympathy for Its Lost Sub Deal (Elisabeth Braw, Defense One)

France is fuming over AUKUS—the new tripartite security arrangement that scuttled its contract to build submarines for Australia—but is receiving scarcely any expressions of sympathy...

A Rahm Emanuel is Exactly What Japan Wants, Asia Scholars Say (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

Former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel visits WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker at Fox Business Network studios on...

AUKUS Is the Death Knell of Australia’s Strategic Ambiguity (James Curran, Defense One)

Following last week’s inauguration of the AUKUS defense partnership, which will see Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines drawing on British and U.S. technology, few could...

Biden to Pitch Partnership at UN, Amid Tension With France and Other Allies (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

President Joe Biden will tout the importance of diplomacy and alliances in front of the United Nations on Tuesday at the same time his...

US Air Force Developing Combat Tanker-Airlifter that Can Land on Water (Tara Copp, Defense One)

A rendering of a twin float amphibious modification to an MC-130J Commando II. COURTESY PHOTO The U.S. Air Force is working on detachable pontoons and other...