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Space Entrepreneur Seeks End to Spy Satellite Launch Monopoly
A high-stakes battle is underway in Washington over launching the U.S. government's most sophisticated national security satellites.
Pentagon Debates Policy To Strengthen, Disperse Bases
The Pentagon is looking at new ways to disperse its forces throughout the Asia-Pacific as military planners explore alternatives to the large US super bases in the region vulnerable to cruise missile strikes.
Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
In this interview – part of European Geostrategy’s now long-running interview series – James Rogers discusses Indo-Pacific geopolitics; Australia’s geostrategic location in relation to future American and British overseas basing requirements; Australian security policy in the Indo-Pacific; Taiwan’s role in East Asia; and European interests in the Indo-Pacific, with Iskander Rehman, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
U.S. Eyes on Japan’s Security 2 / Japan, U.S. Must Deter ‘Creeping Aggression’ at Sea
Over the past 15 years or so, the People’s Liberation Army has undertaken a significant military modernization program. A large portion of this modernization has centered around a counter-intervention strategy—that is, developing capabilities and forces that have the wherewithal to prevent or to make it very costly or difficult for an outside power to intervene in the Western Pacific area, and at the same time make it very difficult for such a power to operate at all in that same area over time.
Without Capitol Hill Advocates, US Weapons Cuts All But Certain
Widespread opposition has yet to form around any single Pentagon proposal to cut a specific weapon system, indicating most could be implemented despite lawmakers’ protestations on behalf of parochial interests.
Hard Corps: Marine’s ‘Expeditionary Force 21′ To Be ‘Fast, Austere, & Lethal,’ And Expensive
In a move with major implications for the defense budget, defense contractors, and inter-service politics, the Marine Corps is set to publish a new “capstone concept” — leaked to Breaking Defense – that will guide the entire service for the next decade. From the title on, Expeditionary Force 21 paints an emphatic, uncompromising picture of a future Marine Corps that is “expeditionary… fast, austere, and lethal,” from equipment to training to the mindset of every single Marine. The concept