Operations

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg wrapped up two days of important discussions between Allied Defence Ministers in Brussels today (Thursday 14 February 2019). Ministers discussed arms [...]

The U.S. Navy wants to go on the offensive against near-peer threats, focusing on the ability to strike first and fast with new weapons. Facing a rising China that is expanding what is already [...]

Eleven Russian bombers in early 2018 flew a mock attack on a Norwegian radar site, Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde, the director of Norway’s intelligence service, revealed in early February 2019. The [...]

Fairbanks Morse has secured a contract from the US Navy for the provision of higher value lifecycle maintenance. The indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract is valued at about [...]

KRI Nagapasa (403), a Chang-Bogo class submarine of the Indonesian Navy, was commissioned in August 2017. Credit: Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL). Indonesia is on the verge of sealing a deal in the [...]

US F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters and B-2 stealth bombers in the western Pacific recently trained for high-end combat scenarios requiring the full might of the US military — drills that come as [...]

Nearly 1,000 foreign fighters are in custody, U.S. Special Ops commander says — and in legal limbo. U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces are taking custody of an increasing number of ISIS fighters [...]

Iran is currently incapable of sinking a U.S. Navy carrier, but that is not an advantage the Pentagon can count on enjoying forever. The United States and Iran have been on bad terms—occasionally [...]

The US Navy wants to go on the offensive against near-peer threats, focusing on the ability to strike first and fast with new weapons. Facing a rising China that is expanding what is already one [...]

Our annual service-by-service look at the U.S. military finds the shift to great-power competition dogged by some old problems and some very new ones. If we had written this State of Defense [...]