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RUSSIAN GROWTH IN AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES, REFORMING US INTEL SERVICES & MARINE CORPS LEADERSHIP REVEALED AGAINST CHINA

7/27/2019

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The Russian Navy Is Evolving Right Before Our Very Eyes
By David Axe, The National Interest: “The Russian navy’s transformation into a small-ship fleet has been accelerating."
When Is More Actually Less? Situational Awareness and Nuclear Risks
By Rebecca Hersman & Bernadette Stadler, War on the Rocks: "For most of the nuclear age, enhanced strategic situational awareness — the ability to characterize the operating environment, detect nuclear and conventional strategic attacks, and discern real attacks from false alarms — has been viewed as beneficial to crisis stability."
A Primer on Analyzing Nuclear Competitions
By Bruce M. Sugden, Texas National Security Review: " ... while identifying the challenges of nuclear competition — between the United States and Russia on the one hand, and the United States and China on the other — is a crucial first step for making strategic assessments, these strategy documents provide little in the way of guidance for analyzing nuclear competition."
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Russia's high-speed air-to-air missile upgrade
Upgrades to Russia's active radar-guided medium-range missiles reflect a renewed emphasis on air-to-air weaponry on the part of the Russian defence ministry, write Piotr Butowski and Douglas Barrie after the Armiya 2019 defence exhibition.
Defense Against Hypersonic Attack Is Becoming the Biggest Military Challenge
By Loren Thompson, Forbes: "Aside from their high velocity—five times the speed of sound or greater—they operate almost entirely within the atmosphere, at elevations below which existing early-warning sensors are optimized to monitor."
Withering Influence in National Security
By Billy Carter, Small Wars Journal: "It is our position that in order to achieve strategic influence goals we require a unified national structure with systems and methods, policy and doctrine appropriate for its charter. Prior to the Church-Pike Hearings such a structure existed in the Operations Coordination Board as part of the NSC."
Discretion and Confusion in the Intelligence Community
By Diana Lee & Paulina Perlin, Lawfare: “Intelligence agency procedures have varied both within and across agencies in the intelligence community—making it difficult for Congress, the public and even the agencies themselves to determine the scope of intelligence gathering."
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs 
“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
DoD Reviewing Industrial Base for Hypersonic Weapons
By Connie Lee, National Defense Magazine: “The Pentagon is developing a strategy to ensure the defense industrial base has sufficient capacity to produce hypersonic weapons, according to a department official."
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CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL BASE AND GLOBAL REACH IS GROWING. . . FAST, HOW SHOULD US RESPOND

7/24/2019

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CHINA'S WHITE PAPER ON DEFENSE
China’s 2019 Defence White Paper:
The Long Road to Transparency in Defence Spending

By Lucie Béraud-Sudreau, IISS: “Taken at face value the spending figure in China’s latest Defence White Paper, published in July 2019, ought to provide a modicum of reassurance to the international community. After all, it shows just over 1% of national income spent on the armed forces. The problem is that, while there is a welcome increased transparency in the document, it does not go very far. IISS figures, and others, place Beijing’s sustained defence spending closer to 2% of gross domestic product."
CHINA'S AIR SUPERIORITY GROWING
The Naval Industrial Base Is in Worse Shape Than You Think
By William R. Hawkins, Proceedings: “U.S. sea power requires a large and innovative industrial base ... “We are at a level of fragility. . . . The industrial base will continue to struggle and some elements may not survive another ‘boom/bust’ cycle.”"
A Budget That Blows Up the Pillars of U.S. Statecraft
By Chris Beatty, RealClearWorld: "The Senate will likely pass a budget deal that will increase defense spending by nearly an entire U.S. State Department. It will bring annual spending to $738 billion for 2020. That is almost 20 times the Trump administration’s 2020 funding request for the State Department and USAID combined."
The Chinese Military Reforms and Transforms in the 'New Era'
By Elsa Kania, China Brief: “When The New York Times reported that Russia had likely deployed a nuclear-armed cruise missile in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear.
Expeditionary or forward based?
(Real Clear Defense) The United States needs an expeditionary navy, and that is not what it has. 
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Beijing’s Strategic Anxiety and Growing Tactical Offensive Under the Ultimate Pressure of the U.S.
By Tao Peng, RealClearDefense: "China’s recent geo-military anxiety and growing tactical offensive are reflected in the White Paper of the national defense in the New Era.
 Military Innovation Strategy: Winning a Total War by Relinquishing Total Control
(Strategy Bridge) In the 21st century, where adversarial challenges come in all shapes and forms, America’s ability to generate power through harvesting the chaotic creativity of the entire nation is more important than ever.[8] Simply focusing military technology development either to react to short-term surprises within persistent disorder, or in support of a grand plan to counter long-term strategic technological challenges presented by contested norms is a luxury lost long ago. 
 
  Beijing’s Latest White Paper: China’s National Defense in the New Era
(The Cipher Brief) On July 22, Beijing released its first national defense white paper since 2015, called China’s National Defense in the New Era. The 51-page policy document examines the modernization and development efforts of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and highlights the importance of President Xi Jinping’s leadership in instituting reforms to advance China’s military capabilities. 
China's 2019 Defence White Paper: report card on military reform 
ANALYSIS
The latest Chinese Defence White Paper released on 24 July paints a picture of a People's Liberation Army that is on its way to modernising, documenting where progress has, or has not, been made in military reform efforts, explains Meia Nouwens in a new blog.
China’s Head-Spinning Defence White Paper
By Dennis J. Blasko, the interpreter: “The difference between how China sees the world and how the world sees China can lead to a seriously dizzying view.
Innovation in the New Era of Chinese Military Power
By Elsa Kania, The Diplomat: "As the PLA pursues the objective of transforming into “world-class forces” by mid-century, the U.S. military may confront the unprecedented challenge of a potential adversary with formidable and rapidly advancing capabilities.
China’s Defense Industry Barges Into Global Spotlight 
Beijing now boasts six of world’s top 15 defense firms according to a new report, edging out a slew of traditional defense powerhouses.
China’s defense industry barges into global spotlight
(Breaking Defense) The burgeoning Chinese defense industry has blown past the majority of its US counterparts while leaving virtually all of Europe in the dust, according to a new study of the global defense market.
China to Release New White Paper on National Defense
By Ankit Panda, The Diplomat: “As any reader of The Diplomat will be aware, the Chinese military has undergone a significant transformation in the four years that have elapsed since the 2015 white paper."
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HOW TO FIGHT THE CHINESE ON STOLEN US TECHNOLOGY & HITTING THE FIGHTING MULLAH'S:  THE IRANIAN BASIJ; REMEMBERING THE BRITISH IN IRAQ

7/14/2019

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A New Idea for Fighting Chinese Theft of American Defense Technology by Kevin Carroll

Knuckling Down Under Maximum Pressure: Iran’s Basij in Transition by Saeid Golkar
Forgetting Allies: Writing the British Out of the History of the Iraq War by Lawrence Freedman
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