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‘Navy wasted $1.84 billion’: GAO slams cruiser-rehab effort
The Navy never wanted to modernize its Ticonderoga guided-missile cruisers, preferring to spend the money on newer ships and technology. But lawmakers balked at losing hulls and missile tubes, and ordered the service to refit some of its…
The D Brief: Russian general slain in Moscow; Ukraine engages N. Korean troops; China’s wartime…
Russian general dead in MoscowThe general in charge of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons was killed outside his apartment building in Moscow on Tuesday. His name was Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, and he reportedly perished along…
Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Will Donald Trump’s return to the White House lead to an unraveling of the security ties that the United States has cultivated in and between Europe and the Indo-Pacific? U.S. allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific have cultivated…
As Trump pushes ceasefire talks, Ukrainians push back with conditions
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he will push Ukraine’s president to negotiate with Russia for a ceasefire after he takes office next month. But just days earlier, a Ukrainian lawmaker told reporters in Washington, D.C., that a…
Several Pentagon commands failed to keep good track of classified mobile devices, audit finds
A number of U.S. military commands failed to keep a complete and accurate inventory of mobile devices used to store and transmit classified information, according to a heavily redacted Defense Department oversight report.The findings from…
How China is adopting battlefield lessons from Ukraine
The Ukraine conflict is more than a distant spectacle to China’s People’s Liberation Army; it offers a real-time battlefield laboratory to study for its own strategic needs. From drone swarms to electronic warfare, its lessons are…
Marines will spend nearly $1B to develop littoral warfighting, upgrade tactical systems
The Marine Corps is pouring $269 million into a secretive project to upgrade the service’s tactical systems to better integrate across agencies, and another $715 million to design and test its new littoral warfighting systems.The two…
The D Brief: Israel pounds Syrian military sites; Taiwan gets tanks; Will AI firms eat the…
While Syria is shifting to new management, Israel is attacking the country’s arsenals and infrastructure. On Monday, military jets struck former air defense sites and missile warehouses along the country’s western coast in the early morning…
Merry Christmas from the Johnsons
If Santa had a Christmas list for the Cold War, it might look something like General Harold K. Johnson’s. A Finnish immigrant, a Vietnam War widow, and a future president of the United States all made the cut — a testament to the global…
Are AI defense firms about to eat the Pentagon?
In an unprecedented wave of collaboration, leading AI firms are teaming up—sometimes with rivals—to serve a Pentagon and Congress determined to put AI to military use. Their growing alignment may herald an era in which software firms seize…
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