Prigozhin Plays His Hand
After months of bickering with the Ministry of Defense over the course of the war in Ukraine, Wagner PMC head Yevgeny Prigozhin threw down the gauntlet over the weekend, marching …
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Biggest Gains and Losses in the Pentagon’s FY24 Budget
The FY24 budget request (PB24) changed significantly from projections in last year’s spending plan (PB23), for a variety of reasons. Some programs were increased in scope, some were scaled back, …
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BRIEFER: Global Combat Air Program (GCAP)
The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) is a multinational collaborative project aimed at producing a sixth-generation fighter aircraft by the United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan. GCAP is the merging result …
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BRIEFER: Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) – U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is designed to replace the F-22 Raptor with a sixth-generation fighter capable of operating and achieving air superiority in the face of advanced integrated air …
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Implications of the Debt Agreement for Pentagon Spending and Acquisition
The new debt ceiling and spending agreement reached by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has major implications for Pentagon spending and acquisition programs for at least the …
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China Seizes Arms Exporting Opportunity in the Middle East
By Dan Darling, Derek Bisaccio and Aja Melville The war between Russia and Ukraine, initiated by Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent invasion in February 2022, has had …
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Momentum Builds for F-16 Supply to Ukraine
With Ukrainian forces readying a counteroffensive against Russian positions in eastern and southern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky is traveling to European capitals this week to drum up any bit of …
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Add the KF-21 Boramae to Poland’s South Korea Shopping Wish-List
In what would prove to be yet another step in the process toward deepening Poland-South Korea defense ties, the Polish government is looking to join South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae combat …
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Unthinkable! Patriot AMD System Takes Down Hypersonic Missile Over Ukraine
To some observers, what happened on the night of Thursday, May 4, must have been unthinkable. Certainly, in Russia, the metaphoric alarm bells must have been ringing. In Ukraine, where …
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The Future of Mexican Security Sector Reform
When, in the wake of a shocking string of criminal massacres, Mexican President Felipe Calderon first deployed the Mexican armed forces to combat organized crime on the country’s streets in …
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