(Defense News) Air forces need not be entirely stealthy nor exclusively standoff to execute effective rollback strategies like Desert Storm or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
(Breaking Defense) How much of a military-industrial rock star is Mike Griffin? Well, the former NASA director turned Pentagon R&D chief can call tell a room full of defense contractors and officials they’re wasting everyone’s money and time AND get a standing ovation.
The Missile Defense Agency is ‘not averse’ to developing and fielding space-based missile defense interceptors, its director, Gen. Samuel Greaves, said August 8 at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium. - Defense News
Missile defense leaders within the Pentagon as well as Congress are pushing for more missile defense capability in space and the Missile Defense Agency Director Gen. Samuel Greaves laid out a rough idea of what a space-based missile defense sensor layer could look like. - Defense News
The U.S. is seeing the need more and more to become increasingly interoperable with allies when it comes to missile defense, but there are many challenges still to overcome, according to a panel of former and current missile defense stakeholders at the August 7 Defense News Missile Defense Networking Reception. - Defense News
By Keith B. Payne, RealClearDefense: “This favorable bipartisan response to the 2018 NPR is also fully evident in the recently-released Conference Report for the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).”
The Military's Search for Innovation
By Daniel M. Gerstein, RealClearDefense: “...in looking through the lens of history, it is at best unclear whether technology or operational necessity has led the innovation that has driven these advances.”
(Defense News) China’s massive military modernization program over the past two decades has been matched to a large degree by a parallel development in its state-owned military-industrial base, and that trend is set to continue as China continues it efforts to build up its forces to challenge U.S. military primacy in the western Pacific.