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WHAT IS "LEFT OF CONFLICT MEAN", ARMY AVIATION SENSORS AND MUNITIONS; SHORT AIR DEFENSE TOP PRIORITY

10/29/2019

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The MAGTF is no longer sacred: The Marine Corps is looking at other ways to fight
(Marine Corps Times) The concept that set the Marine Corps apart from the other services decades ago, the one that has sold the its particular way of warfare on for generations of Marines, is no longer untouchable.
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 Can Pentagon acquisition keep up with electronic warfare?
(C4ISRNET) The cat-and-mouse nature of electronic warfare means systems need to always be up to date, but the Pentagon’s acquisition authorities don’t always allow for the Department of Defense to move fast enough, a senior acquisition official said Oct. 28.
New sensors and munitions: What’s coming to Army aviation
(Defense News) From a new open systems architecture to longer range strike capabilities, get a look at what's coming to the Army's helicopters.
 
  What exactly does ‘left of conflict mean’?
(Defense News) Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley explains what the phrase "left of conflict" means--especially as the Army preps for a future conflict.
 
  What is the next generation of short range air defense?
(Defense News) Get a look at the Army's efforts to develop short range air defense for the maneuver force.
The case for light attack aircraft
(Military Times) Congress is finalizing the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act and one of the key issues is the future of the Air Force’s meager light attack aircraft program
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THE POLITICAL STATEMENT INDIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS MAKE; iran and china's missile development

10/29/2019

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India's Aircraft Carriers Tell Its Diplomatic History
By Krzysztof Iwanek, The Diplomat: "The construction of such a large machine is a strategic choice not only in pure military terms, however. For a country like India, which needs foreign technology, it is also a political statement."
New DIA Report Underscores Iranian Cruise Missile Threat
By Behnam Ben Taleblu & Bradley Bowman, FDD: "The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) last week released a landmark report analyzing the capabilities of Iran’s military."

China’s Strategic Perspective on the South China Sea
By James Goldrick, The Strategist (ASPI): " In many ways, the American label of ‘great wall of sand’ that was applied to the artificial islands in the South China Sea encapsulates a key element of Chinese thinking."
Multiple Perspectives on Warfare: The Fighters
By William M. Stephens, Strategy Bridge: "The multi-platform perspective was already being tested in Iraq and Afghanistan ..."

Keeping Up With the Jinpings
By Eli M. Gold, RealClearDefense: "With Russia's hypersonic weapons and China’s cyber and space capabilities, it is no longer enough to keep up with the Jinpings, but rather is the time for the U.S. to step up and leave these questionable characters in our technological rearview mirrors."
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HOW IRAN'S F5 WINS AGAINST US STEALTH FIGHTERS & WHY US MUST DETER IRAN NOW WITH STRIKES, SYRIAN BUGOUT HITS US CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS HARD

10/28/2019

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ASIA TIMES
In a new AEI report, Fred Kagan suggests that the US should conduct a military strike to deter continued Iranian military escalation, arguing that refraining from retaliation will embolden Iranian proxies and allies and encourage the regime to stand fast with its nuclear program, regional activities, and repression of its own people. Read here.
Giselle Donnelly in an AEIdeas blog. The Syria bugout has been singularly enervating to those in uniform, especially those who have been closest to the fighting since 9/11, and dishonorable retreats are having longer-lasting effects. Finish here.
DoD Needs to Move Great Power Competition Beyond Lip Service
By Mackenzie Eaglen, War on the Rocks: "We've all heard a lot about the pivot to great power competition during this administration, but is it all talk? It's looking that way. The Department of Defense keeps adding new missions and functions only tangentially related to its purported core role."
​U.S. Army Mission Command at a Crossroads
By Ryan Orsini, Strategy Bridge: "Mission command’s place in this larger doctrinal reassessment is critical. It is the U.S. Army’s leadership philosophy of decentralized execution to enable initiative and adaptability."
Is Army Modernization on Track? | Defense News Weekly, Oct. 25, 2019
(Defense News) From Strykers to aircraft to air defense, we’ll take a look at how the Army is modernizing key units and the status of those important programs.
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HOW THE U.S. TEACHES ITS ENEMIES:  CHINA LEARNS FROM THE US; EXAMINING CHINA'S WHITE PAPER ON WAR

10/17/2019

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China is determined to reshape the globe
Hal Brands | Bloomberg Opinion
Failure is an option for DoD’s experimental agency, but how much?
(Federal News Network) Since 2015, millions of dollars have been invested in the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, the agency watched as some of its projects fell flat, and only about 23% the organization’s completed projects ended up in the hands of troops — but the thing is: DIU is completely fine with that.
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A Primer on China’s New White Paper
By Jie Sheng Li, Diplomatic Courier: "The State Council of People’s Republic of China (PRC) released yet another White Paper in September 2019 titled, China and the World in the New Era. This White Paper, unlike previous papers, was published just before China’s seventieth anniversary, which showcased China’s military strength. Although the White Paper’s focus was on development and economic success, its contents, along with the military parade, exemplify how the PRC aims to project its power globally."
China’s All-Effects All-Domain Strategy in an All-Encompassing Info. Environment
By Thomas A. Drohan, Small Wars Journal: "The essence of Chinese strategy consists of waging complex wars that exploit opponents’ expectations of warfare."
Ian Williams and Masao Dahlgren writes: China’s embrace of high-tech “informationized” warfare reflects the many lessons the PLA has learned from observing U.S. operations over the past two decades. During this period, the United States enjoyed the uncontested use of advanced ISR and C2 networks. The PLA has watched this advantage become a dependency, one which it is now looking to exploit. This brief will provide an overview of the systems and capabilities the PRC emphasized in its 70th anniversary celebration and attempt to explain how they fit into China’s military vision. These include electronic warfare, drones, and China’s array of new missiles. – Center for Strategic and International Studies
A Revolution at Sea: Old Is New Again
By James Lacey, War on the Rocks: "During World War II, Secretary of War Henry Stimson dammed the U.S. Navy’s approach to wartime strategy and famously wondered about “the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was god, Mahan his prophet, and the U.S. Navy the only true church.”"
How acquisition reform can give the US a strategic advantage in space
(Defense News) There are myriad important national security issues at play as conferees work to finalize the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
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MARINE CORPS CULTURE IS WAKE UP CALL FOR OTHER SERVICES & ARMY'S "INVICTUS" SERVES RECON/ATTACK NEEDS; A LOOK AT GROUND BASED HYPERSONICS

10/1/2019

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The Paradoxically Pacific Indo-Pacific Command
By Euan Graham, The Strategist (ASPI): "The United States military hasn’t conducted a single combat operation within the sprawling area of responsibility that defines the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) in 44 years."
Mark F. Cancian writes: The U.S. Army’s effort to grow its force structure has been stymied by recruitment challenges, making it difficult to expand for day-to-day operations, creation of new capabilities, and wartime surge. With modernization, the Army has increased production of proven systems and shifted billions into development of high priority programs to prepare the Army for great power conflict. – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Behold Sikorsky's 'Raider X' Future Armed Recon Helicopter
By Tyler Rogoway, The WarZone: "Last week Bell unveiled its 360 Invictus high-speed armed scout helicopter contender for the Army's Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) tender and now Sikorsky is firing back with its long-anticipated entrant, the "Raider X.""
 Raytheon, United Technologies shareholders approve deal
(USNI News) At a pair of special meetings on Friday morning, shareholders approved the United Technologies’ purchase of Raytheon, paving the way for creating a defense industry behemoth.
Raider-X: Sikorsky’s Supersized S-97 For Army Scout
Sikorsky says their Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft design will fly faster, with bigger weapons, than archrival Bell’s. Bell says theirs will be cheaper and more reliable.
A Striking New Vision for the Marines, and a Wakeup Call for the Other Services by David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Commandant: Marines ‘Not Optimized For Great Power Competition’ 
The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
 Bell unshrouds Invictus, its answer for the U.S. Army’s future attack recon aircraft
(Defense News) Bell has pulled the shroud off its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) design for the Army after keeping it under wraps as a competition for a chance to build prototypes heats up. 
How industry can take advantage of the Pentagon’s shift in research
(C4ISRNET) After nearly two decades consumed by counter-insurgency campaigns, the Pentagon means what it says about elevating high-end conflict to the forefront of budget priorities. 
 
  Monitoring capabilities, ISR tech will deter America’s adversaries
(C4ISRNET) A recent escalation of aggressive acts in the Middle East underline the need for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. Early warning and the ability to track adversary action is often still missing. 
 
  Diverse, layered missile defense is key to killing drone swarms
(Defense News) This is a time for more concerted efforts to achieve the sort of layered defenses that are truly needed, not for the adoption of outliers such as the Russian systems. 
Will ground-based hypersonic missiles replace aircraft carriers in the defense budget?
(Defense News) A debate on the future of aircraft carriers is roiling the U.S. Department of Defense, and it is increasingly spilling out into the open. While the debate over the efficacy of carriers in high-end conflict is nothing new, a general understanding that the DoD will not have unlimited funds with which to deter an increasingly potent China and Russia have made the questions particularly urgent.
 
One step forward, two back
(Defense News) It takes time to change a culture that has persisted for decades. At least that’s one explanation for the current state of things for the Army’s plan to replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
Raytheon’s pitch for precision strike, the post INF missile
(Breaking Defense) t’s one of the Army’s top priorities, the Precision Strike Missile, a weapon to replace the venerable ATACMS missile built by Lockheed.
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