by | Mar 16, 2023 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Polish President Andrzej Duda has declared that Poland will deliver the first four Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in the coming days to support the country’s combat against Russia’s ongoing invasion. Duda announced the forthcoming delivery...
by | Mar 16, 2023 | Security
The 2022 National Security Strategy identified climate change as an existential challenge, and the Defense Department’s Climate Adaptation Plan calls for reducing carbon emissions across the services. The Department of Defense is the largest energy user in the U.S....
by | Mar 16, 2023 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — The head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says he has not had contact with his Chinese counterparts, despite a previous agreement between the U.S. defense secretary and the Chinese defense minister. Speaking in Singapore on Thursday at an event...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and the United States ratcheted up confrontational rhetoric Wednesday over a U.S. surveillance drone that encountered Russian warplanes and crashed near the Crimean Peninsula, while both countries pledged to try to avoid escalation. The Kremlin...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
ROME — As speculation mounts in Italy over the government’s choice of a new CEO for state-controlled defense giant Leonardo, one thing seems certain: The job is staying in-house this time. With current CEO Alessandro Profumo reaching the end of his second three-year...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
LONDON — Britain’s defense spending is set to get its second boost in three days after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced a further hike in his budget speech Mar 15. Hunt said representations by his “persuasive defense secretary,” a reference to Defence Secretary Ben...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — Defense officials are optimistic that billions of dollars of investments in the U.S. submarine industrial base will increase capacity to and even above the required two-a-year attack sub construction rate, allowing the U.S. to build for Australia under a...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
Lt. Col. Clinton Hall enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1997, midway through a first semester in college that wasn’t going well. He went through boot camp — right at the time the Marine Corps was rolling out the final boot camp event, the Crucible, at...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — The South Korean government has approved its military to acquire more fifth-generation stealth fighters, while also starting the process to acquire the SM-6 ship-launched interceptor, according to the country’s arms procurement agency. The...
by | Mar 15, 2023 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Lithuania’s chief of defense, Lt. Gen. Valdemaras Rupšys, has announced the country’s military aims to acquire up to 54 tanks to strengthen the combat capacities of the Lithuanian land forces. “We are proposing to transform one mechanized infantry...
