Tag: Defense

USA/Defense – US Army’s first mid-range missile battery coming in FY23 with 3 to follow (Jen Judson, Defense News)

(U.S. Navy photo by Ens. Sean Ianno) The U.S. Army is planning to field its first mobile medium-range missile battery no later than September 2023 with three...

Australia/Defense – Australia’s new tanks are overkill and overweight (Declan Sullivan, The Strategist)

Australia, according to an unremarkable line item in the May federal budget, is making its first purchase of new tanks in almost 15 years...

Australia/Defense – Why is it so hard for Australia’s innovators to win acceptance by Defence? (Charley Feros, The Strategist)

Finding a path out of the economic ashes of the Covid-19 pandemic while addressing growing tensions in our region has forced Australia to reassess...

India – How declassifying India’s military records will bring benefits beyond new research avenues (Harsh V Pant, Kartik Bommakanti, ORF)

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s announcement that war records will be archived and declassified after every 25 years is, indeed, a welcome move. According to...

Defense – Defense Business Brief: Why Navy is killing its railgun; HASC to markup in Sept.; GBSD to fly in 2023; and more… (Marcus...

 U.S. NAVY / JOHN F. WILLIAMS The Navy plans to abandon its electromagnetic railgun, citing unsolved technological hurdles. The service lacks a good way to store...

Defense – The Army Brief: Missing guns; Malpractice reform; 2002 AUMF bill; and more (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PHOTO / STAFF SGT. MARGARET TAYLOR Welcome to The Army Brief, a weekly look at the news and ideas shaping the service’s...

NATO – Why NATO should invest in resilience (Jaclyn Levy, Atlantic Council)

The best defense: Why NATO should invest in resilience - Atlantic Council

USA – 2 combatant command budgets left out funding for JADC2 international collaboration tool (Andrew Eversden, Defense News)

Two combatant commands weren't able to find funding in their fiscal 2022 budget request for programs that would enable JADC2. The Air Force demoed...

Biden’s budget request steady but unimaginative on defence (The Strategist)

Marcus Hellyer US President Joe Biden has sent Congress his requested budget for the 2022 fiscal year. Due to the timelines of a presidential transition year, there’s...

The next chapter in India-UK defence relationship (ORF)

JAVIN ARYAN Despite the cancellation of the UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson’s trip to India owing to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, London and New...

Non-lapsable fund for India’s defence modernisation (ORF)

GIRISH LUTHRA For the first time, the terms of reference given to the Finance Commission of India included the aspect of fund allocation for...

Dealing with hot air: UK defence and climate change (IISS)

Ben Barry, Douglas Barrie, Nick Childs Plans for how to reduce the UK armed forces’ carbon footprint have been outlined by the Ministry of Defence...

The Pentagon’s next move in expanding zero trust (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The Pentagon’s top IT office is considering establishing a portfolio management office dedicated to accelerating the adoption of zero-trust cybersecurity architectures, a senior IT official told...

Pentagon AI office wants to match software projects with best cloud environment (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence office is developing a plan to weave together the department’s cloud-based software development platforms to connect AI projects with cloud...

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

Sergey Sukhankin On March 31, during a virtual meeting with the Kremlin, the president of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR), Mikhail...

JAIC director: With flat budgets, turn to AI to save money (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden Artificial intelligence can provide vital savings for the Pentagon in the face of flat or decreasing budgets, the director of the department’s top...