S&S YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn steamed through Tokyo Bay and anchored at its new homeport Saturday, where it’s scheduled to replace a cruiser…
U.S., Saudi Arabia To Conduct Counter-Drone Exercise Without Allies
Al-Monitor As tensions heat up with Iran, the Pentagon hopes the Red Sands exercises will convince allies in the Middle East that Western counter-drone technology is still better than…
China To Increase Military Spending by 7.2%
George Wright, BBC News
China says it will increase military spending by more than 7% this year, while warning of “escalating”…
Sketching Out the Rules for Offensive Cyber Operations
L.C. Williams, Defense One The White House released the first-ever National Cybersecurity Strategy this week. It leaves the door open for more defined use cases for cyber operations.
Irregular Warfare, American Style
James Holmes, 1945 Of late there’s been a lively discussion in the halls of U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (where I serve as the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy) about…
Russian Foreign Minister Laughed at for Ukraine War Claims
B. Cole, Newsweek A clip of veteran Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sparking laughter after claiming Ukraine was to blame for Vladimir Putin’s invasion has gone viral.
During…
Terrorists Will Use Artificial Intelligence, Too
Sam Hunter & Joel Elson, RCDefense How will extremists use AI to hurt people? Stated bluntly, AI will allow malign actors to develop plans and ideas that were more challenging or even…