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 FVL: Army Won’t Wait for Sikorsky to Catch Up to Bell
By Sydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense: "We don’t have the time or luxury to wait for people," Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said. "They’ve got to keep pace with us if they want to do business with us.”"
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 We Must Rebuild American Uranium, Rare Earths Infrastructure Rare earths are 17 chemical elements used in military equipment as varied as missile guidance systems to lasers. China controls much of the world’s rare earth production, which has made them a concern of the Pentagon and the White House. Uranium is another critical military material largely controlled today by foreign sources. What should… An Honorable Man at the Heart of Civil-Military Turmoil by Kori Schake So You Want to Be a PLA Expert? by Peter Mattis Thinking Historically: A Guide for Strategy and Statecraft by Francis J. Gavin For DoD Transformation, a Holistic Approach Is Needed
By George Franz & Scott Bachand, RealClearDefense: "Decades of innovation — driven almost entirely by DoD and the Defense Industrial Base — have kept the United States at the forefront of modern military capability. Now, however, it is the commercial sector that is defining the leading edge of technology and innovation." Incubate Innovation: Aviation Lessons from the Interwar Period By Philip D. Mayer, Proceedings: "The development of carrier aviation offers important lessons for maintaining maritime superiority in today’s naval environment." Pentagon Procurement and the Laws of Physics By Mark Thompson, POGO: "Old boys of a certain age can recall “playing war” with small, plastic Army men, vanquishing foes on the plains of Europe or Pacific islands. In those halcyon years following World War II, it seemed to us like American soldiers could do anything, from thwarting enemy bazookas with their bare hands to facing down flamethrowers. We were kids, and knew nothing of reality or the laws of physics. But unlike us, it looks like the Pentagon has never grown up."  Pentagon needs a secure 5G network Without it, America's ability to project power and defend itself could be severely undermined BYSTEPHEN BRYEN Is the Shape of Amphibious Shipping About to Change?
By Nick Childs, IISS: "Both the United States and the United Kingdom are rethinking the future roles and posture of their marine forces. As Nick Childs explores, approaches to current challenges in the operating environment could alter how amphibious shipping features in the future fleet mix of their respective navies." Considering Force Structure Cuts to Marine Infantry By Walker D. Mills, CIMSEC: "The Marine Corps must change in order to survive. Thankfully, senior leaders in the Marine Corps and the Navy through the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Chief of Naval Operation recognize this imperative and are charting a new course with the Commandant's Planning Guidance (CPG), the new Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) concept, and the Integrated Force Structure Assessment." Science, Not Fiction: Modern Batteries for Modern Subs By Derek Woolner & David Glynne Jones, The Strategist (ASPI): "Historically, the effectiveness of lead–acid submarine batteries has been constrained by their limited performance spectrum. They frequently operate at the extremes of their capacity, suffering performance degradation through the process and hence reduced safety margins." A War By Other Means? By Jack Bowers, Strategy Bridge: "What if, just for the sake of argument, we were to reverse Clausewitz’s famous maxim? What if, say, we considered that war is not the continuation of politics by other means, but instead that politics is really the continuation of war? What would this say about war? Or politics?"  In Need of Direction: The Case for Moving Supply Chains Out of China by Derek Scissors How is Army acquisition changing? | Defense News Weekly Extra (Defense News) Bruce Jette, the Army's top civilian acquisition official, sits down with Jen Judson to talk changes for the service. How a new Air Force unit could help beat Russian air defense systems (C4ISRNET) A new Air Force unit is expected to generate “unmatched” capabilities for commanders at “a speed and scale that we’ve never seen before,” Gen. David Goldfein, the service’s chief of staff, said recently. Two years in, how has a new strategy changed cyber operations? (Fifth Domain) By 2013 U.S. networks were already were under constant attack from sophisticated nation-state actors. Hackers stole millions of sensitive records from the Office of Personnel Management, gained access to White House networks and destroyed dozens of computers at Sony Pictures from thousands of miles away. The collapse of American rare earth mining — and lessons learned
(Defense News) Out in the Mojave Desert in California lies the Mountain Pass mine, once the world’s foremost supplier of valuable rare earth minerals — 17 elements deemed critical to modern society. 4 reasons why fuel threatens our lethality — and what we can do about it (Defense News) “As a service that provides global reach, global vigilance, and global power, are we thinking globally?”  F-35 Breaks Down Too Often, Pentagon Says By Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg: “The Pentagon's chief weapons tester said the next-generation F-35 jet continues to fall short of full combat readiness targets and, despite some progress on reliability issues, all three versions of the fighter are breaking down “more often than planned.”” V-22 Ospreys Still At Risk From Sand And Dust By Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone: “The Pentagon's top watchdog has released a report that offers new details and insights into the U.S. Navy's struggle to resolve long-standing issues with the Engine Air Particle Separators, or EAPSs, on U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force V-22 Osprey tilt-rotors." Navy Must Work To Secure Its Platforms, Networks And Installations From Cyber Attack By Dan Gouré, RealClearDefense: “The threat to the U.S. Navy from cyber intrusion has become a crisis. Hackers, particularly those from Russia and China, are not limiting themselves to attacks on computers and networks. Now they are engaged in a massive assault on the entire Navy enterprise, including ships, weapons systems, research and development establishments, the supply chain, and shore facilities.” Exploring the Foundation of Multi-Domain Ops By Brandon C. Kasubaski, Small Wars Journal: “While TP 525-3-1 establishes what MDO achieves and how it supports the Army’s strategic roles, the underlying foundational strategies and how they contribute to MDO are absent. Understanding and interpreting these foundational strategies is critical for planners and leaders to gain insight into MDO.” Assessment of the Current State of U.S. Cyber Civil Defense By Lee Clark, Divergent Options: “Local civic organizations in the U.S. are experiencing a wave of costly and disruptive low-sophistication cyberattacks on a large scale, indicating widespread vulnerabilities in networks. In light of past and ongoing threats to U.S. cyber systems, especially election systems, this weak cybersecurity posture represents a serious national security concern.” Making Infantry As Good As Special Ops
By Bob Scales, Breaking Defense: “Our elite close combat forces are outnumbered. As a national priority we must increase the numbers of those capable of doing these hazardous jobs by transferring the skills of JSOC warriors to Army and Marine conventional infantrymen." For Lack of a Strategy: The Free and Open Indo-Pacific By Gregory Poling, War on the Rocks: “Since early 2018, the Trump administration has been assuring experts and officials at home and abroad that a public report explaining its Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy was forthcoming. But the State Department's newly released report, A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Advancing a Shared Vision, is not that. Instead it leaves the strategy, at best, implied but never described." The Costs of Another Continuing Resolution for the Military By Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner: "FEELING THE PAIN: Under the current C.R which runs through Nov. 21, the Pentagon can spend only at last year’s $718 billion level, instead of the new topline of $738 billion. All signs point to another extension, possibly for the entire focal year. “The six-week C.R. has been problematic. Another long-term C.R. will be moreso,” Hoffman said."  RUSSIA: Key Features of Russia’s Grom 2019 Nuclear Exercise By Maxim Starchak, The Jamestown Foundation: "The objectives of the exercise were to test the actions of overhead and operational personnel to organize coordinated management of all parts of the nuclear triad." Going All in on the Great Game? The Curious and Problematic Choice of Kiplingesque Inspiration in U.S. Military Doctrine By Matt Salyer, Modern War Institute: "In one important sense, the “Great Game” is, quite simply, a fiction. At no point in the nineteenth century did the British Empire ever use it as an overarching strategic framework for understanding its competition in Central Asia." The 2 things every senior Pentagon leader is worried about
Mackenzie Eaglen | Defense One Their top concerns don’t include the Mexican border, Iran, or even Syria. |
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