Dan Goure, National Interest: The U.S. Army Is Back
Military modernization is a process of continual change. Fortunately, while the Pentagon was forced to take a 20-year procurement holiday, the aerospace and defense industry continued to work on new concepts and capabilities. They also learned how to adapt commercial technologies to the military’s needs. As a result, the Army may have found much of what it needs to jump-start modernization at the AUSA annual conference.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 16, 2018
Army Wants Bradley Replacement to Vastly Outgun the Enemy -- Military.com
The Army Has Big Plans for a Light, Fast and Deadly Super Tank. Here's What We Know So Far. -- National Interest
The awesome things the Army wants its next recon helicopter to do -- We Are The Mighty
Inside The Army’s Pursuit Of A High-Tech 6.8mm Round -- Task & Purpose/Military.com
The U.S. military creates tech to control drones with thoughts -- Big Think
New Gold-Silver Alloy To Supply U.S. Military With Lighter, More Powerful Devices -- Kitco
Dumb and Dumber: The Army’s New PT Test -- War On The Rocks
Is this the world’s toughest military exercise? -- Newsrep
New Marine Correctional Unit 'Like Boot Camp All Over Again' -- Military.com/Stars and Stripes
More than 80 percent of F-35s cleared for flight after fuel tube problem -- The Hill
Most F-35s cleared for flight operations after grounding last week -- UPI
Pentagon scrambles to bolster war readiness with aging aircraft fleet -- Washington Times
Microsoft employees urge company not to pursue $10 billion Pentagon contract -- The Hill
Mattis says he thought 'nothing at all' about Trump saying he may leave administration -- The Hill
Mattis says Trump backs him '100 percent' despite 'Democrat' remark -- The Hill
Who would replace Mattis? -- Foreign Policy
Saudi Arabia is losing Lindsey Graham, a key ally of US arms sales -- Defense News
Microsoft, Amazon CEOs Stand By Defense Work After Google Bails on JEDI -- NextGov
China's Communist party expels former military chief; transfers his graft case to military court -- Economic Times
Beijing defends warship confrontation in the South China Sea -- AP
Why you're seeing more of Japan's military -- Brad Lendon, CNN
Japanese Amphibious Soldiers Hit the Beach in the Philippines with U.S. Marines, 7th Fleet -- USNI News
South Korea to buy ship-based interceptors to counter ballistic missile threats -- Defense News
Australia says alliance with America vital with Indo-Pacific tensions -- AP
Russia’s Pacific Fleet wraps up visit to South Korea -- TASS
Russian-Pakistani military drills to be held on October 21-November 4 -- TASS
Russian Embassy in London says Bellingcat may be linked to special services -- TASS
Two Pilots Die Following Su-27 Fighter Jet Crash in Ukraine - General Staff -- Sputnik
UK and German forces test military mobility en route to NATO’s biggest exercise in decades -- NATO
NATO cyber command to be fully operational in 2023 -- Reuters
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Surprising Alliance Between Astrophysicists and the Military -- The New York Times
With ‘Hunter Killer’ Gerard Butler Wants to Revamp the Submarine Movie, Navy Wants to Boost Recruiting -- USNI News
Brazil's military poised to amass power after three-decade wait -- Stars and Stipes/Bloomberg
Trump's 'Arab NATO' Project Is Doomed -- Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Newsweek
