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You Don’t Need to Thank Me for My Service. I Needed It More Than It Needed Me

I’m proud of my service. Let me get that out of the way up front. But I don’t parade my service around. I don’t wear clothes that advertise it. There…

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U.S. and Papua New Guinea Sign Defense Pact as Washington, Beijing Vie for Influence in the Pacific

The United States and Papua New Guinea have signed a new bilateral defense cooperation agreement – a move that has sparked controversy in the Pacific Island nation and comes as…

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Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex

Small, fast-moving U.S. tech firms are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems but face the challenge of selling them to a risk-averse Defense…

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How to Build Discipline and Resilience Amid Supply Chain Uncertainty

It’s never my intention to sound like a broken record. But if you’re the weatherman, your job is to report on the weather, even if the forecast shows a big,…

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China Puts Spymaster in Charge of U.S. Corporate Crackdown

China’s crackdown on overseas firms has made clear that leader Xi Jinping values security over economic growth. To eradicate any doubt, according to people familiar with the matter, he has put state-security czar Chen Yixin in…

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United States Opens Tonga Embassy as it Pushes for Pacific Influence

The United States opened an embassy in Tonga on Wednesday as it continued efforts to bolster its diplomatic presence in Pacific island countries where it is vying for influence with…

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Industry Report Warns Of Limitations On Hypersonic Supply Base

The U.S. hypersonic industrial base is not large enough to produce the number of weapons the Pentagon would need in a future war, and the Defense Department needs to show…

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Ukraine and China Will Dominate G7 Summit, But a New Threat Lurks: A.I.

President Biden began his foreshortened Asia trip on Thursday in Hiroshima, a city that devotes itself to reminding the world of what happens when a brutal war escalates into a…

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Europe’s Military Industrial Capabilities Fall Short of Ukraine’s Needs

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a whirlwind tour of Western capitals this week, the billions of dollars in new military support was a sign that European governments were finally…

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DoD Needs More Commercially Available Goods to Speed Acquisition

With shortages from production down through the supply chain, the Pentagon’s acquisition leadership wants to close the gap by purchasing more commercially available products. To make that work, contracting officers…