Were the United States to go to war with Russia, both sides could draw on deadly weapons that the world has never seen on a battlefield. On the Russian side, there are new and smaller tactical nuclear weapons. To counter them, the U.S. Army is taking another look at a “devastating” weapon it first tested in 2013: the Kinetic Energy Projectile, or KEP, a tungsten-based charge moving at three times the speed of sound that can destroy anything in its path. – Defense One
Mackenzie Eaglen writes: At the end of the day, the increasingly polarized U.S. political environment, combined with the popularity of the barbell investment strategy among the relevant policymakers, bodes ill for the sort of buying bonanza that defense contractors had hoped for with Republican control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. With enough funding, however, hopeful signs exist in certain sectors of the branches and in the legislature. – Foreign Affairs