CSBA "Third Offset" paper

[bobbymike]

London Calling for Military Tech Cooperation

London Calling for Military Tech Cooperation

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org

 

[bobbymike]

EXCLUSIVE: Army Airpower To Strike Deep In EDGE21 Wargame - Breaking Defense

New drones – launched by helicopters in flight and built by the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office – will reach out “hundreds of kilometers.” Marine F-35s, 82nd Airborne troops, and Special Ops will also participate in exercise EDGE21.

breakingdefense.com

 

[jsport]

Should Europe Defend Itself? - War on the Rocks

Chris, Melanie, and Zack wade into the long-running debate on whether Europe can defend itself (chiefly from Russia), and how hard it should try. In a

warontherocks.com

 

[shin_getter]

EXCLUSIVE: Army Airpower To Strike Deep In EDGE21 Wargame - Breaking Defense

New drones – launched by helicopters in flight and built by the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office – will reach out “hundreds of kilometers.” Marine F-35s, 82nd Airborne troops, and Special Ops will also participate in exercise EDGE21.

breakingdefense.com

How many air forces should a nation have? One would think 3+ is enough.....

 

[bobbymike]

New Air Force ISR Strategy Ready, Including MQ-9 - Breaking Defense

"I will tell you right now, the MQ-9 is still a very popular platform with the Combatant Commanders," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown admitted. "So, it's not something we can just walk away from."

breakingdefense.com

 

[jsport]

Navigating the Shoals of Renewed American Naval Power: Imperatives for the Next Secretary of the Navy - War on the Rocks

This is a hell of a way to run a Navy. The Department of the Navy’s revolving door of senior civilian leadership over the past four years, including two

warontherocks.com

Rebuilding America’s Navy for Great-Power Competition

Once again, we find ourselves in an era of great-power competition. And the pressures driving current competition among the United States, China and Russia are only intensifying. In China, growing dem

www.realcleardefense.com

 

[jsport]

Schumer says Senate will draft tech research funding bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he is directing lead Senate Democrats to draft bipartisan legislation invest in developing disruptive new technologies and challenge Beijing.

www.defensenews.com

 

[jsport]

U.S. Holds Slim Edge over China in Artificial Intelligence, Former Google Chairman Says - USNI News

The chairman of a special commission on artificial intelligence warned Congress the United States is only one to two years ahead of China in developing artificial intelligence, as Beijing remains “relentlessly focused” on achieving dominance across the broad spectrum of high technologies...

news.usni.org

What Can the Pentagon Realistically Get from Its Advisory Boards?

A former chair says the boards provide a lot, could do better — and help weed out impractical or oversold ideas.

www.defenseone.com

 

[jsport]

Don’t Knock Yourself Out: How America Can Turn the Tables on China by Giving Up the Fight for Command of the Seas - War on the Rocks

Editors note: This essay is the second in a series of eight articles, “Maritime Strategy on the Rocks,” that examines different aspects and implications

warontherocks.com

 

[jsport]

The Nuclear Option

If Biden wants to slow a new arms race, he will need to accept limits on the U.S. missile defense systems that drive it.

www.foreignaffairs.com

 

[jsport]

Austin eyes rolling back Trump-era policy on special operations

The defense secretary is considering lowering the special operations job back into the Pentagon’s policy shop, effectively demoting the position.

www.politico.com

 

[jsport]

Esper’s end-around on Trump harmed civil-military relations

Further politicization of appointments could lead to a Pentagon that games appointments in the fourth year of an administration or selects separate slates of general officers according to the anticipated preferences of the winning candidate.

www.defensenews.com

 

[jsport]

CYNICISM: A brief look at a troubling topic | Small Wars Journal

Are today’s career officers more cynical than officers of previous eras, and how much more corrosive is their cynicism? It turns out these are impossible questions to answer. They are also irrelevant. No cynic cares whether things were equally or even more screwed up in the past. Cynics live...

smallwarsjournal.com

 

[jsport]

SPACECOM's New Vision Targets 'Space Superiority' - Breaking Defense

"We must have fully integrated offensive and defensive operations across all of our services, as well as our partners," says Army Gen. James Dickinson, SPACECOM commander.

breakingdefense.com

 

[jsport]

Pentagon’s dated budget process too slow to beat China, new report says

A new report argues for a sweeping overhaul of the Pentagon’s 60-year-old defense budgeting and appropriations process, so it can match the fast-moving commercial sector and outpace China’s technological development efforts.

www.defensenews.com

 

[jsport]

Three Wars, No Victory – Why? | National Review

Policy, strategy, and popular opinion have all played a part in U.S. failures.

www.nationalreview.com

 

[jsport]

Four Ways US Naval Forces Should Be More Assertive

Non-aggressive assertiveness can achieve long-term advantages and have strategic effects.

www.defenseone.com

 

[jsport]

It’s time to reboot America’s counter-WMD strategy

We have devolved into an era where the possession and use of WMDs is escalating, the penalties for their use is declining, and the risk of a catastrophic event is ever-increasing.

www.defensenews.com

 

[jsport]

Strategic Tradeoffs in U.S. Naval Force Structure — Rule the Waves or Wave the Flag? - War on the Rocks

Editors note: This essay is the fourth in a series of eight articles, “Maritime Strategy on the Rocks,” that examines different aspects and implications

warontherocks.com

 

[jsport]

A Solid Plan to Compete with China in Artificial Intelligence

The NSCAI’s new report should also be taken as the first plank in a national technology strategy.

www.defenseone.com

 

[jsport]

Ike Was Wrong: The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Turns 60 - Breaking Defense

Eisenhower's speech, principally aimed at tamping down the shrill and untrue claims of the famous "missile gap," perhaps unintentionally stoked the historic fire of populism that distrusted the private sector and feared wartime profiteering. His words would be used to destroy the very defense...

breakingdefense.com

 

[jsport]

Protecting people from disinformation requires a cognitive security proving ground

Developing techniques to protect humans — and national security — from malicious influence requires public-private collaboration in a neutral environment, a researcher argues.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[jsport]

Afghan Study Group’s New Report Would Guarantee Failure

As long as the U.S. military continues to guarantee the security of the Afghan government, Kabul will be less willing to make hard choices.

www.19fortyfive.com

 

[jsport]

We Must Reorient US Cyber Strategy Around the Only Safe Assumption

We should assume adversaries are already in our networks — and Congress should take these five steps to mitigate the damage.

www.defenseone.com

 

[jsport]

Want to Redefine Readiness? Here’s Where to Start

Two Joint Chiefs are on the right track.

www.defenseone.com

 

[jsport]

Deploying U.S. forces overseas better protects the homeland: report

A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies argues that removing U.S. forces from overseas locations would serve only to increase the danger to the country.

www.washingtontimes.com

IMHO this debate would make a good PhD program as there appears to be no real answer when your forces could become hostage is hybrid warfare scenario.

each fwrd deployed unit is a different case also, IMHO

 

[jsport]

AI Is Reshaping the US Approach to Gray-Zone Ops

Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools aren’t just for big hot wars, but also for places where the battle lines aren’t clear.

www.defenseone.com

 

[jsport]

What war with China could look like

A host of scenarios could push China and the United States into some kind of conflict.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[jsport]

China moves toward new ‘intelligentized’ approach to warfare, says Pentagon

A newly released report from the DoD articulates how China is adopting new technologies as part of a shift in its military strategy.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[bobbymike]

Q&A with Dr. Mark Lewis, Director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute

Q&A with Dr. Mark Lewis, Director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org

 

[bobbymike]

Agile Product Management: How To Build Weapons Faster & Better - Breaking Defense

Combining agile software development with product management is the secret weapon that can help the DoD maintain America’s innovation advantage — and protect its global preeminence.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

agile software development

(shudders)

 

[jsport]

Deploying U.S. forces overseas better protects the homeland: report

A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies argues that removing U.S. forces from overseas locations would serve only to increase the danger to the country.

www.washingtontimes.com

IMHO this debate would make a good PhD program as there appears to be no real answer when your forces could become hostage is hybrid warfare scenario.

each fwrd deployed unit is a different case also, IMHO

McMaster et al are correct Forward Stationing is necessary now but, they also draw ire increasingly.
If even Near Peers understand you can travel transoceanic and then appear from anywhere, to anywhere, periodic forward exercises would be enough.

 

[bobbymike]

The Deterrence Trap: The cost of the US military’s overwhelming conventional superiority | Small Wars Journal

The overwhelming conventional military superiority of the US has succeeded in deterring the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from directly using its military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), to achieve its strategic objectives to return to great power status by expanding political and...

smallwarsjournal.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Pentagon announces climate working group

The Pentagon on Wednesday announced the creation of a working group to respond to President Biden’s series of executive orders aimed at addressing the climate crisis.“Climate change presents a grow…

thehill.com

 

[Lc89]

Pentagon announces climate working group

The Pentagon on Wednesday announced the creation of a working group to respond to President Biden’s series of executive orders aimed at addressing the climate crisis.“Climate change presents a grow…

thehill.com

The bullshits return.

 

[uk 75]

This is another thread which simply reposts articles available elsewhere and adds nothing to my knowldge of "unbuilt" or "secret" projects.
If I want to read about the "threat from China" there are plenty of websites and traditional media where I can do so.
If I want an uninformed rant about US policy I can go on Twitter.

 

[bobbymike]

Don’t read the threads you don’t like seems an elegant and simple solution, no?

One of the best things, IMHO, about this site is that, as a busy man with a job and family commitments, I can come here and save a massive amount of time finding news of interest.

I much prefer that to going on Google or having to check dozens of sites daily which I don’t have time to do.

 

[shin_getter]

Pentagon announces climate working group

The Pentagon on Wednesday announced the creation of a working group to respond to President Biden’s series of executive orders aimed at addressing the climate crisis.“Climate change presents a grow…

thehill.com

To enable persistent decisive security, a joint concept of operation is needed to maneuver in the weather domain for effective shaping effects. Nuclear assisted techniques is capable of induce effective shock, however the escalation effects are excessive. Discovering tipping points with AI assisted supercomputing can enable effects via precision energy manipulation, currently enabled by declining access barrier to space. Ultimately a system of systems solution is the way forward to provide overmatch in peer competition within this domain.

 

[sferrin]

This is another thread which simply reposts articles available elsewhere and adds nothing to my knowldge of "unbuilt" or "secret" projects.
If I want to read about the "threat from China" there are plenty of websites and traditional media where I can do so.
If I want an uninformed rant about US policy I can go on Twitter.

Somebody forcing you to read this? You're not a helpless baby bird, swallowing whatever momma puts in front of you. If you don't like a topic, don't read it. Surely you're capable of that?