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For Russia, With Love: The Truth Behind Putin’s Opposition

For Russia, With Love: The Truth Behind Putin’s Opposition

In Russia, the an opposition movement led by Alexei Navalny is growing in strength, rallying a yo...

Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper attends the National Defense Authorization Act signing by President Donald J. Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Dec. 20, 2019.

The Future of Space Force in a World that Has No Up or Down

A year in, and the Space Force is hovering between administrations, working to justify billions i...

Featured Dec 22

The Cygnus NG-12 cargo spacecraft, S.S. Alan Bean, launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia aboard an upgraded Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Antares 230+ rocket at 9:59 a.m. EDT Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. On board the two-day flight to the International Space Station are the Aerospace Rogue Alpha/Beta Cubesats, which have officially achieved their priority mission of developing a small low Earth orbit constellation in just 18 months for the Space and Missile Systems Center Development Corps at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California. The cubesats will collect data on cloud backgrounds to inform future low Earth orbit missions. The Air Force will also utilize this program’s data to investigate potential uses of the capability. (Image credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA)

Space Force and the Spectre of a Space Pearl Harbor

A coordinated attack on our satellites would cripple everything from nuclear defense to GPS and e...

Featured Dec 21

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during a developmental test at 12:33 a.m. Pacific Time Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Clayton Wear)

One Year In: The Elegant and Ugly Truth Behind Space Force

Space Force is a year old, and while it has suffered joked and jabs, America’s newest milit...

Featured Dec 20

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part Four: The Last War Horse

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part Four: The Last War Horse

Amphibious operations training means high-risk training, but will it later pay dividends, or is i...

Expert Analysis Oct 08

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part Three: The Next Beachhead

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part Three: The Next Beachhead

9/11 showed how difficult it is to predict the needs of the battlespace, but it’s hard to i...

Expert Analysis Oct 07

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part Two: Legacy

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part Two: Legacy

AAVs are central to the mission of the Corps, but with no major amphibious landings in sixty year...

Expert Analysis Oct 06

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part One: YAT-YAS

Amphibious Combat Vehicles and the Future of War, Part One: YAT-YAS

YAT-YAS is the amtracker’s motto. After all, it succinctly describes the amphibious nature and ...

Expert Analysis Oct 05

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