by | Aug 4, 2022 | Security
On Monday the Senate officially confirmed Lt. Gen. Michael Langley as the nation’s first Black four-star Marine general. Langley, who will now lead U.S. troops in Africa as the commander of U.S. Africa Command, was widely expected to land the confirmation following a...
by | Aug 3, 2022 | Security
NATO is building up its defenses in Eastern Europe to fend off Russian aggression in a new effort it calls “air shielding.” The 30-country transatlantic alliance has long flown “air policing” missions that dispatch fighter jets to keep unfriendly aircraft at bay. Air...
by | Aug 3, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps in recent months took the quiet step of putting its Force Design 2030 plans to work in Europe, using forces to monitor Russian naval forces in the Baltic Sea. “We went past experimentation and we went right into operational...
by | Aug 3, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department on Tuesday cleared possible foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Under the first deal, Saudi Arabia would buy 300 Raytheon...
by | Aug 2, 2022 | Security
All eyes are understandably on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan this week as Beijing issues threats and rattles its saber. But those interested in supporting the free people of Taiwan and pushing back on increasingly aggressive behavior from Beijing...
by | Aug 2, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — As the annual defense policy bill makes its way through the halls of Congress, lawmakers are fighting the Biden administration’s proposal to scrap two nuclear investments. The White House wants to retire one of those, the B83 megaton gravity bomb. But the...
by | Aug 1, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — Months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, experts say the conflict is providing new lessons across the land, air and sea domains, potentially shaping future strategies for the U.S. military. Last week, the Department of Defense announced another security...
by | Aug 1, 2022 | Security
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR HICKAM, Hawaii — The U.S. is closer to conflict in the Pacific than it is to peace, the head of U.S. 3rd Fleet said, and the command structure must change to reflect that. Vice Adm. Michael Boyle has called for a centralized command-and-control...
by | Jul 29, 2022 | Security
LONDON — A Dutch company has delivered a test bed vessel to the British Royal Navy to help the service rapidly experiment and field the latest in autonomous and lethality technologies. The 270-ton vessel arrived at the Portsmouth naval base in southern England earlier...
by | Jul 29, 2022 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — The Russian invasion of Ukraine has taken a prominent position in Japan’s latest defense whitepaper, with the government warning the conflict represents “a new period of crisis” in this century. The document, released last week in Japanese with...
