Tag: USA

A Quartet of Warnings Highlight Climate-Related Threats (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

Climate change is likely to crank up geopolitical tensions as temperatures rise and nations argue about who is responsible for fixing it, according to...

Booster rocket failure scuttles hypersonic test (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

A hypersonic technology test the Defense Department hoped to carry out in Alaska Thursday went awry when a booster rocket failed in a launch...

Are adversaries using US critical infrastructure as a training range? (Jan Kallberg, Defense News)

There is a risk that we overanalyze attacks on critical infrastructure and try to find a strategic intent where there is none. Our potential adversaries...

Army CIO’s top priority is budgeting for new digital transformation strategy (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

Following the release of the U.S. Army’s digital transformation strategy, the service’s chief information officer said one of his top priorities is to outline the...

Eastern Shipbuilding opens new C5I integration facility for offshore patrol cutter (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Northrop Grumman and their industry partners formally opened a test and integration center this week for the C5I systems at the...

Intel: Turkey’s Erdogan wants to talk F-35 dispute with Biden in Rome (Al Monitor)

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed optimism on Thursday that his government would recover the $1.4 billion it put toward acquiring Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 Joint...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks to Mission Colombia Staff (US Department of State)

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Hello, Mission Bogotá.  It is great to see all of you, and so good to see folks here together.  Again, to the...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks at a Climate/Sustainable Products Event (US Department of State)

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, again, thank you. Thank you all. And it’s very wonderful to be here today. It’s always wonderful to be outside or...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken Remarks at the U.S.-Colombia High-Level Dialogue (US Department of State)

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Buenos días a todos.   Wonderful to be here with all of you, with both of these remarkable teams, the teams behind the teams,...

‘Yes’: Biden says US would defend Taiwan against China (Al Jazeera)

US President Joe Biden has said the United States would come to Taiwan’s defence if the island were attacked by China, in comments that...

US to launch Amazon-wide pact to reduce deforestation: Blinken (Al Jazeera)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States will soon launch an Amazon-wide regional pact to reduce deforestation, a significant contributor to...

US-China: tiers of cohabitation (Ali Wyne, The Interpreter)

As strategic tensions between the United States and China calcify so too does the conclusion that they have entered into “a new Cold War”....

EU, US send wrong signals on Taiwan (Chen Qingqing and Yan Yuzhu, Global Times)

With EU lawmakers pushing forward a resolution in deepening so-called "political and economic ties" with the island of Taiwan and the Biden administration's pick...

The U.S. is wholly unequipped to resupply forces in a great-power conflict (Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem, Defense News)

The current American consumer goods crisis presages the effects of a militarized Sino-American confrontation. Indeed, confrontation is increasingly imaginable, as China’s recent 150-aircraft violation of...

Fund the F-35 program, lawmakers tell the White House (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the White House to fully fund the F-35 Lightning II program in the coming years. But Senate appropriators...

US Air Force teams with UK on machine learning demo (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Air Force Research Laboratory successfully demonstrated new joint machine learning algorithms with the United Kingdom, showcasing the countries’ ability to collaborate on deploying...