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Search and rescue saving lives by enhancing operational capabilities
An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter played an integral role in a search and rescue demonstration. Alejandro Pena/U.S. Air Force
The mission…
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DR. P. WHITNEY LACKENBAUER and DR. ADAM LAJEUNESSE
Since Russia’s unprovoked February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the world has witnessed the further spillover…
USNORTHCOM and USSOUTHCOM commanders highlight PRC threat
THE WATCH STAFF
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, the commander charged with homeland defense of the United States, recently outlined the creeping influence of the…
U.S. tracks and contests Russian out-of-area naval operations
THE WATCH STAFF
President Vladimir Putin hailed a Russian Navy frigate departing from the Northern Fleet’s home port of Severomorsk in January 2023 as having…
NATO counters Russia with 300,000 troops at high readiness
REUTERS
NATO agreed in June 2022 to put over 300,000 troops at high readiness beginning in 2023, up from 40,000 previously, in a new military lineup designed…
U.S. blacklists Chinese firms for helping Russian military
REUTERS
The United States added five companies in China to a trade blacklist in June 2022 for allegedly supporting Russia's military and defense industrial…
U.S. Navy tests updated Trident II missile system
U.S. STRATEGIC COMMAND
The United States Navy successfully launched an unarmed life-extended Trident II D5 (D5LE) from the ballistic missile submarine USS…
NATO hones its submarine-hunting skills
THE WATCH STAFF
The United States, Canada and seven other NATO nations carried out a successful hunt for submarines during joint exercise Dynamic Mongoose,…
Germany reaches NATO goal on defense spending
REUTERS
Germany’s Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, has approved creation of a 100 billion euro (U.S. $107.2 billion) special defense fund that…
U.S. Army doubles down on cyber force
THE WATCH STAFF
The United States Army plans to double the size of its cyber force — including beefing up its electronic warfare (EW) capability — to deter or…