The Pentagon will upgrade and expand its three-star command in Japan to handle operational control of U.S. forces based there, part of an effort to deepen ties between the U.S. and Japanese militaries and to streamline command and control of joint operations, senior defense officials told reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday. Read the story by Patrick Tucker, reporting from Tokyo: https://lnkd.in/giJakSck #Japan #usforces #military #china #troops #usfj
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A new “convergence” of Asian nations including Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines is reshaping the security environment of the Indo-Pacific, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a crowd in Manila last week. Read the story by Patrick Tucker, reporting from the Philippines: https://lnkd.in/gGUXrqnk #usmilitary #philippines #indopacific #asia #nationalsecurity #defense
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A lower-than-expected defense budget for 2025 won’t affect Germany’s military presence in the Indo-Pacific region “in any way,” and will not stop the country from meeting its pledge to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defense, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said last week. Read the story by Jennifer Hlad, reporting from Pearl Harbor: https://lnkd.in/gxBqhsdM #germany #rimpac #navy #pacific #indopacific #nato
Germany vows continued Pacific presence to ‘protect the international order’
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The Air Force’s complex effort to put new engines and radars on its 1960s-era B-52 Stratofortresses is running billions of dollars over budget, according to service officials. Read the story by Audrey Decker: https://lnkd.in/gMfmtWXw #usaf #b52 #airforce #airpower #bombers
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Vietnam-era APC + Cold War-era line charge + today’s street sweepers = tomorrow’s robot defense-breacher. Read the story by Sam Skove: https://lnkd.in/g3juBwhx #army #robotics #minefields #defensetech
Tomorrow’s soldiers may breach minefields with robots made from decades-old APCs
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TODAY: Join us in Washington for the DOD Cloud Workshop. Details: https://lnkd.in/gZerWd4w
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ICYMI: The Air Force is pausing its sixth-generation fighter jet program as it weighs whether the companies in the running to build it have the right design, a move that’s likely to delay the service’s plans to pick a builder this year. Audrey Decker has more at: https://lnkd.in/dRyt_FVh #NGAD #Defense #AirForce #DOD
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A first-ever gathering of defense chiefs from Japan, South Korea, and the United States here produced a trilateral security agreement, “grave concern” over increasing Russian-North Korean cooperation, and vague opposition to “unilateral attempts to change the status quo”—a reference to China and Taiwan. Patrick Tucker reports from Tokyo: https://lnkd.in/gqSbx4Wr #Japan #southkorea #us #trilateral #security #russia #northkorea #china #defense
US, Japan, South Korea sign pact amid ‘deteriorating’ regional security
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The U.S. military “lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat,” in the judgment of a congressional commission whose new report finds that collaboration between Russia, China, and other autocratic states is increasing the chance of a multi-front conflict—and that the U.S. would have trouble sustaining such a fight. Read the story by Patrick Tucker: https://lnkd.in/gh4-bQRd #china #greatpowercompetition #russia #war #congress
The US might lose a war with China, congressional commission says
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Five companies will get money to develop autonomous control systems for the Air Force’s planned robot wingmen—and the service is keeping the list a secret to safeguard the designs from spies. Audrey Decker reports from Dayton, Ohio: https://lnkd.in/g3iE-hiA #drones #ai #autonomy #robotwingmen #ccas #combatcollaborativeaircraft #usaf #airforce
Five firms—don’t ask who—will vie to make brains for USAF robot wingmen
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