CSBA "Third Offset" paper

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The Defense Department Needs a Real Technology Strategy

To succeed in a long-term competition with China, the Department needs a transparent process to set spending priorities — not conflicting guidance and a shifting range of interests.

www.defenseone.com

 

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America’s return to ‘Clash of Civilizations’

China watchers must get the subject right since China is the most serious strategic competitor to the United States, say the authors of this commentary.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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What Is Happening to Our Apolitical Military?

Remarks by America’s most senior military officer mark the latest step in the continued erosion of relations between the armed forces and their civilian leaders.

www.defenseone.com

 

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DoD Stands Up New Biotech Manufacturing Center: Griffin - Breaking Defense

This "key new initiative," Griffin stressed, could lead to DoD being able to such breakthroughs as creating its own fuel.

breakingdefense.com

 

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Ep. 50 — The Unknowns

Hosts Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio discuss the basic epistemological problems that plague analyses of al Qaeda nearly 20 years after 9/11. Powered by

www.longwarjournal.org

 

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How Army Futures Command plans to grow soldiers’ artificial intelligence skills

Gen. Mike Murray is pushing three new efforts to drive innovation in the Army.

www.defensenews.com

 

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Introducing the Irregular Warfare Podcast – Episode One: "What are Small Wars?" - Modern War Institute

This is the inaugural episode of a brand-new podcast the Modern War Institute is launching in collaboration with Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. It’s called the Irregular Warfare Podcast, […]

mwi.usma.edu

 

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How China’s Digital Silk Road Is Leading Countries Away from the United States

Beijing is using technology products, markets, and training to secure influence with U.S. security partners, a IISS report finds.

www.defenseone.com

 

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Spider silk research: From bone regeneration to bulletproof vests

A project funded by the Office of Naval Research Global and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research will provide critical knowledge to accelerate the development of silk-based materials far beyond what is currently possible, says the author of this commentary.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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US military must avoid a ‘Kasserine Pass’ failure for space power

A primary reason U.S. Space Command was reestablished and the U.S. Space Force created was to ensure necessary war-fighting synergies through unity of effort under an independent commander, the essay author writes.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

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Army to set in stone the importance of information advantage, with new capabilities on deck

One of the biggest undertakings for the Army’s cyber operational and training arms in the last two years is shifting the service’s thinking and approach to the broader concept of information advantage. Now, the service is on the heels of making that concept official doctrine.

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Big screen to battlefield: How sci-fi can inspire next-generation weaponry

Directed energy has captivated science fiction fans for decades, but we must not allow a failure of imagination to prevent us from converting directed energy from movie magic to military might before our adversaries.

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Nothing left in the tank: The state of the Pentagon’s supply chain

The defense-industrial base's supply chain is barely able to keep pace and must be incentivized to create surge capacity, according to the authors of this commentary.

www.defensenews.com

 

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Could hyping climate change with warlike rhetoric spur military conflict with China or Russia?

President Biden calls climate change the “existential threat of our time” Indeed, he says it is our “biggest threat to national security,” and he’s made climate change the “center” of his national…

sites.duke.edu

 

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AI militarization will be ‘force multiplier’ for UAE, Saudi Arabia

The nations also are carving a niche in the defense export market by adding AI capabilities and pursuing emerging technologies.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

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Five Ways the U.S. Military Will Change After the Pandemic - War on the Rocks

The global pandemic is about to profoundly change the U.S. military’s role in defending the United States — even if Pentagon leaders don’t know it yet. As

warontherocks.com

 

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‘Remotely Crewed’ Systems Can Save Money, But Specialized Thinking Needed | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Remotely-operated systems could be a big money-saver for the Pentagon, but planners need to change the way they think about them.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Google ex-CEO has a plan for US to stay ahead of China’s government-backed tech

One of his suggestions is for the government to incentivize investment in technologies critical to national security.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

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In Great Power Wars, Americans Could Again Become POWs

After years of training for counterinsurgency, today’s soldiers need to know how to survive large-scale warfare.

www.defenseone.com

 

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War is Changing. So Should the Pentagon’s Budget

Beyond aircraft carriers, missiles, and riflemen, the next wars will be fought with data, digital platforms, and networks.

www.defenseone.com

 

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The US Needs a New Indian Ocean Strategy, Now

It’s time to prioritize the “Indo” in “Indo-Pacific.”

thediplomat.com

 

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Warfighting in Cyberspace - War on the Rocks

Since the Gulf War, the U.S. military has followed an operational script that exploits technological advantages to fight and win quickly. It starts with

warontherocks.com

 

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The Fallacy of Presence

Presence is not a deterrent unless it is backed up by authorization for action.

www.usni.org

 

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Will the Silicon Valley Mindset Help America Beat China in Space? | Defense.info

Space has become the next frontier for geopolitical conflict between the U.S. and China. America’s adversary China has made significant investments in space infrastructure, weaponry, and commercial rockets with the intent to reverse American space supremacy in the coming decade. Unfortunately...

defense.info

 

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Covert Action, Espionage, and the Intelligence Contest in Cyberspace - War on the Rocks

In recent months, the world learned that China carried out an indiscriminate hack against Microsoft Exchange, while Russia hacked U.S. information

warontherocks.com

 

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Roles & Missions Scrub Needed For All Domain Ops: CSAF Brown - Breaking Defense

The Pentagon needs to look at "seams, gaps and overlaps" as they implement the new strategy for All Domain Ops, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says.

breakingdefense.com

Such a review needs to be accomplished delineating roles-missions DIA, NSA, NGA, NRO against what the svc intell orgs, NGIC, ONI, MCIA, AIA. What little Nat'l specifics can left after such a review can go back to CIA.

 

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Pentagon AI hub looks to be the ‘world’s best software company’

The JAIC's acting director noted several efforts that are improving the AI hubs outreach to DoD components.

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[Grey Havoc]

A veritable deluge of tears to descend, I fear.

 

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Soldier-Scholar (Pick One): Anti-Intellectualism in the American Military - War on the Rocks

Crossing the Great Plains on an expedition to Utah in the 1850s, Maj. Charles A. May searched the wagons in an effort to reduce unnecessary baggage. When

warontherocks.com

 

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JAIC's AI Development Platform 'Up And Running' - Breaking Defense

JAIC's plan to rapidly grow capabilities, which it will do via a series of monthly updates, reflects the current AI competition with adversaries, including China which has said it plans to dominate AI by 2030. "To a Marine, this is dangerous close," Lt. Gen. Michael Groen says.

breakingdefense.com

 

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The Pentagon could help improve resilience of the US electric grid

A strategic enterprise approach across U.S. military installations in partnership with electric utilities could potentially enhance grid stability and resilience, benefiting national security.

www.defensenews.com

 

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How the DoD’s future war-fighting needs are shaping cloud vendors’ products

Joint war fighting means the department needs more cloud computing and processing at the edge.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

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Strategy in the Artificial Age: Observations From Teaching an AI to Write a U.S. National Security Strategy - War on the Rocks

Words matter to members of the U.S. defense establishment, especially if those words are found in official documents like the National Security Strategy

warontherocks.com

 

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US Navy, armaments consortium forge partnership to solve energetics tech challenges

Amid fears about the strained industrial base for energetics, a key part of munitions and other conventional weapons, the Navy has awarded a six-year contract to accelerate tech breakthroughs over the next six to ten years.

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An Irregular Upgrade to Operational Design - War on the Rocks

Irregular warfare is an enduring, economical contribution to America’s national security, and will remain an essential core competency of the U.S.

warontherocks.com

 

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Joint Force Operating Scenarios: Improving Analysis and Oversight of Force Development - War on the Rocks

I will assess each service’s force structure to ensure it supports the wide range of missions required to meet the nation’s defense goals. I will also

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Special Ops Aren’t A Substitute For Strategy - Breaking Defense

Overused and overstretched in the “global war on terror” since 9/11, Special Operations Forces need Biden to give them a break so they can refocus on Russia, China, and the “grey zone.”

breakingdefense.com

 

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Exclusive Interview: Lockheed’s CEO Wants His Company to Connect All the Pentagon’s Weapons

Jim Taiclet has been forming alliances with commercial firms in an attempt to give Lockheed a leg up over its competitors.

www.defenseone.com

“Let me tell you, it is a big challenge,” St. John said last week at a National Defense Industrial Association conference. “I will tell you that two years ago, if you had asked me, ‘What's the biggest challenge in terms of becoming more agile and transforming digitally?’ I would have said it’s the culture.”

St. John said there is a “a whole group of people,” largely in the company’s middle management ranks, that has “built their career and been very successful doing it the old way.” That, resistance has lessened with time, he said.

“We now have that middle layer of the organization competing with each other to see how can I implement digital tools on my program,” he said.

The above is veiled excuse for the largest power grab in history of the defense industry,
How about stop giving more power to LSI's.

There seems to be no DOD ship captain to see the reef ahead.

PS Mr. Kendal will do nothing but drop rocks on the reef to make it bigger.

 

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Next National Defense Strategy Should Return to Two-War Force Construct | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies released a new paper calling for the return to two-war force sizing in the National Defense Strategy.

www.airforcemag.com

 

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Not going to happen under the current administration, that is to be sure.