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HOW DRAGONFLIES  TEACH U.S. HYPER-SONICS & INTEGRATING CIVILIAN AFFAIRS INTO THE ARMY

9/27/2019

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The Obstacles on the Road to Better Analytical Wargaming by Jon Compton
 United Technologies nets $325.2M contract for F-35 depot maintenance
(UPI) The Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corp. was awarded a potential four-year, $325.2 million contract for aircraft maintenance equipment for the F-35 fighter aircraft. 
The First Pilotless Black Hawk Will Soon Take Flight
By Oriana Pawlyk, Military.com: "Sikorsky has two goals in mind for its optionally manned S-70 helicopter: to make the autonomous technology easy to retrofit on existing aircraft for users like the U.S. Army, and to give pilots various modes of autonomy so they can commit more time toward their mission."
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Dragonflies Studied for Hypersonic Maneuverability
By Connie Lee, National Defense Magazine: "Dragonflies — a common sight in spring and summer — may be key to developing more precise and maneuverable missiles."
Rethink Navy Ballistic Missile Defense
By L. Paul James, Proceedings: "“I want to get out of the long-term missile defense business and move to dynamic missile defense.” In this assessment, the CNO is on the mark. It is time the Navy gets out of the business of defending static land assets and reconsiders how ship-based BMD capabilities can best contribute to countering the missile threat."
A Guide To Military Unmanned Systems On Air, Land And Sea
By Sebastien Roblin, Forbes: "However, the blanket term ‘drones' applies to a bewildering variety of systems that differ radically in form, capability and cost. It also can be applied to unmanned ground vehicles and ships. Naturally, each type comes with its own opaque military acronyms."
Win the Race for Invisibility
By John D. Miller, Proceedings: "Infrared, radar, acoustic, and optical stealth are the new frontier in low-observability, and the winner of the metamaterial competition will have an enormous advantage in the next fight." ​
Rethinking Air Superiority Acquisition in the United States
By Robert Farley, The Diplomat: "The Century Series is in the news again. As reported at Defense News and AviationWeek, the Air Force is considering a new way of thinking about acquiring its next generation of air superiority aircraft. Instead of a single major project, the idea is now to produce a series of different aircraft, using an entirely new system of design and manufacture."
Drone Technology Proliferation in Small Wars
By Scott Crino & Andy Dreby, Small Wars Journal: "While the Houthis’ drone capability, when compared to other irregular military forces, is without peer in terms of its range and destructiveness; it has evolved to its advanced state, due in large part to the unique circumstances of the Yemen Civil War’s operational environment."

Measuring War: Cognitive Effects in the Age of AI
By Brad DeWees, War on the Rocks: "The only outcome of military action that ultimately matters occurs at a cognitive level — at the level where adversaries perceive and give meaning to actions taken against them. More specifically, the cognitive impact of a military action is the extent to which the action alters an adversary’s belief that he can maximize his own interests through military means."
Are Air Defense Systems Ready to Confront Drone Swarms? by Seth Frantzman
Defense News
September 26, 2019

https://www.meforum.org/59453/can-air-defense-systems-stop-drone-swarms
Diverse, Layered Missile Defense Is Key to Killing Drone Swarms
By Steven P. Bucci, Defense News: "Effective missile defense systems are not based on one weapon capable of stopping everything. Only diverse, layered and integrated air and missile defense systems in combination can combat all types of incoming attacks."
Beyond the Multi-Domain Model
By Chris Bulow, Grounded Curiosity: "Western militaries are struggling to comprehend how to effectively manage the rapidly changing character of contemporary warfare because the multi-domain model used to explain it is fundamentally flawed."

The Counterrevolution in Naval Affairs
By James Holmes, The National Interest: "The new U.S. Marine Corps commandant, or most senior uniformed official, wants to repeal the post–Cold War revolution that saw the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps turn away from open-ocean combat."
True Civil Affairs Integration: From Three Tribes to One
By Assad A. Raza, Small Wars Journal: "In August of 1998, former Chief of Staff GEN Dennis Reimer published his white paper, One Team, One Fight, One Future, describing the importance for achieving Total Army integration by merging the Army’s three components into one fully integrated service."
Brig. Gen. Gregory Gagnon and Lt. Col. Nishawn Smagh write: The traditional crew-to-aircraft model for exploitation must fast forward to today’s information environment. The Pentagon has shifted its guidance to this new reality. The Defense Department recently declared information a seventh core function, and the Air Force’s formal ISR flight plan maps a course for digital-age capabilities to turn information into intelligence. […]The Department’s focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning in this realm remains stable and necessary. The next step is to retool how we task, organize, and equip both intelligence collection and analytic crews. – C4ISRNET
 How artificial intelligence can enhance GEOINT at the edge
(C4ISRNET) From planning long-term military strategies to executing operations in the heat of battle, defense and intelligence organizations need access to current geospatial intelligence in its many forms for numerous activities. 
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THE IMPACT A.I. HAS ON NUCLEAR DETERRENCE; THE GROWTH OF THE CIVIL MILITARY DIVIDE & A LOOK AT 6TH GENERATION AIRCRAFT

9/19/2019

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What to Expect from Sixth-Gen Aircraft
By Jon Harper, National Defense Magazine: “The United States and several European nations are pursuing next-generation fighters. While many details are closely held or are still being fleshed out, a picture is starting to emerge of the capabilities they will possess."

Raytheon Unveils New Air-to-Air Missile Design
By Aaron Mehta, Defense News: “Raytheon has announced the development of a new air-to-air missile, one it claims will be half the size of current weapons but achieve greater speed and maneuverability.”
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Electronic Warfare Is Becoming the Most Lethal Counter Drone Technology
By Dan Gouré, RealClearDefense: “There is a new urgency to the search for cost-effective counters to the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones. Large, high-flying UASs can be countered by anti-aircraft systems, although this is an expensive solution."
Will Artificial Intelligence Imperil Nuclear Deterrence? by Rafael Loss and Joseph Johnson

Rhinestone-Covered Icons at "Russia's Los Alamos" by Anya Loukianova Fink

TNSR: Book Review Roundtable: Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy by Anya Loukianova Fink, Brad Roberts, Irina du Quenoy, Olga Oliker, and Jon Askonas
AI Risks to Nuclear Deterrence Are Real
By Zachary Kallenborn, War on the Rocks: "Why does the United States have so many nukes?"
Multi Domain Operations: Insights From Lockheed Martin 
Lockheed Martin’s Kim Ponders, who’s done much to help me understand the concepts and some of the technology behind Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2), explains what the company is doing and answers one crucial question: Is Multi Domain just another Pentagon buzzword.

What Are We Fighting For?
The Political Aim in War and the American Civil-Military Divide

By Donald Stoker, Modern War Institute: “In war there is nothing more important than understanding the political objective or objectives of the combatants involved. This is the why of the war; the reasons the warring states and insurrectionist groups such as Islamic State spill blood and spend treasure."

The U.S. Needs to Choose Its Battles Carefully
By Rod Lyon, The Strategist (ASPI): “Alongside a set of companion documents—the national security strategy, the nuclear posture review and the missile defence review—the NDS outlined the strategic core of the Trump administration’s thinking about defence policy."
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ARMY SHORTFALLS ON MULTI-DOMAIN

9/13/2019

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Army Multi-Domain Wargame Reveals C2 Shortfalls 
By Sydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense: "In a massive simulated conflict, the human players adapted rapidly to futuristic technologies and tactics. But their command-and-control software couldn't keep up."
 Future wars will be won with open mission systems
(Defense News) Future success on the battlefield will be closely linked to rapidly processing information in space, in the air, and on land, sea and cyberspace.
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WHY THE NEW 'RMA' IS JUST LIKE THE OLD ONE & WHAT OF MISSILES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC AND COUNTER DRONE TECHNOLOGY EMERGES

9/6/2019

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5 questions for Adrienne Mayor about Ancient Greece’s technological visions of the future 
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Nothing New: Why the ‘Revolution’ in Military Affairs Is the Same As the Old One
By Adam Wunische, The National Interest: "The technology-driven revolution in military affairs (RMA), first begun during America’s dominating performance in the First Gulf War, is upon us."
Where Will the U.S. Base Intermediate-Range Missiles in the Pacific?
By Evan Karlik, The Diplomat: "The demise of a landmark arms control accord earlier this month means that U.S. intermediate-range missiles could soon be fielded to the western Pacific, and Pentagon leaders will likely consider Japan's Ryukyu Islands and the Republic of Palau in Micronesia their most viable basing options."
DARPA’s Mosaic Warfare — Multi Domain Ops, But Faster
“Kill webs,” not kill chains. Instead of exquisite platforms like the F-35 fighter, exquisite functional technology nodes (such as an advanced infrared sensor) that can be mixed and matched via AI-enhanced networks.
Major War Game To Jolt 4 Services, Force Decisions
In conflicts of the future the Pentagon will need some radically new thinking.
 Raytheon anticipates international boom in counterdrone sales
(Defense News) Raytheon is expecting a boom in international sales of its counter-UAS system already battle-tested with the U.S. Army. 
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