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Panel Suggests Goldwater-Nichols Revisions to Senate
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Experts: Fix Top-Heavy Pentagon
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Revealed: Russia’s Next Generation Nuclear Submarines
Russia is developing two new types of nuclear submarines to replace its Project 949A Oscar-class and Project 945 Sierra-class vessels. The new vessels are a generation beyond Russia’s Project 955 Borei-class ballistic missile submarine and Project 855M Yasen-class guided-missile submarines, which are originally late Soviet-era designs.
Senate Armed Services Committee tackles interservice rivalries — finally
By Walter Pincus
Panel Advocates Reducing Number of U.S. Combatant Commands, Staffs
Cutting the size of staffs, from the combatant commands to the services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and scaling back the number of combatant commands are ways to shape the Pentagon for future roles and missions, a panel of national security experts told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday...
The Air Force’s New Bomber Faces a Pentagon Budget Battle
The battle over who will build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation stealth bomber came to a close last week, but a new conflict is already developing at the Pentagon. A defense budget passed Friday has Congress and military planners seeking $5 billion in defense cuts, as the Air Force prepares to squeeze another costly development program into a Pentagon budget already packed with big-ticket weapons buys.