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FY2024 National Security Supplemental Funding:...
On October 20, 2023, the Biden Administration submitted to Congress a request for FY2024 emergency supplemental appropriations to address “key national security priorities.” President Biden characterized the request as a…
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Sustaining Our People Advantage in Data Centric...
The speed of change in all aspects of technology, from artificial intelligence to robotics, makes it difficult to predict what a conflict will look like in the future, but we…
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Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S....
The apparent intelligence and operational failures in preventing the assault or limiting its impact have become a subject of debate in Israel and elsewhere. Some analysts have said that Israel…
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Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence...
This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law…
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Brittle and Brutal: An Avoidable 2024 Civil...
The historically high public confidence of the American public in the U.S. military has steadily dropped over the past few decades, trending toward the all-time lows of the 1970s and…
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America’s Call to Duty
America faces a national security crisis in fielding a sustainable, formidable military force. This was foreseeable at the inception of the all-volunteer force and requires swift action. Over the fifty…
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FM – 30: A Step Forward in Approaching Operational...
The Army in 2023 finds itself in a unique position. The 2022 National Defense Strategy prioritizes China as the number one pacing threat, with Russia as the number two acute…
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Additive Manufacturing in Contested Environments
The availability of replacement parts for equipment remains a critical challenge for operations in contested defense settings. Traditional supply chains and logistics are unreliable and leave warfighters in adverse, if…
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Defense Primer: Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
The Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) is a projection of the forces, resources, and programs to support Department of Defense (DOD) operations. The FYDP is compiled every year and typically…
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Reconceptualizing the Space Domain Beyond Historic...
Strategies for waging land, air, and sea wars have been ongoing for as long as humans have existed in those domains. Technological advances over the last century have necessitated the…
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Deterrence and Space Strategy: A Framework from...
If the United States wishes to sustain the strategic advantages provided by outer space, then it needs a “way” to tailor activities across instruments of national power for space deterrence.…
Learn More![The Army’s XM-30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle (Formerly Known as the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle [OMFV])](https://api.govwhitepapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bigstock-Veteran-S-Day-1010829-300x250.jpg)
The Army’s XM-30 Mechanized Infantry Combat...
The Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) is being designed to replace the M-2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). Optionally manned means the OMFV is to have the capability to…
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Through a Glass Clearly: An Improved Definition of...
The Army needs a useful definition of large-scale combat operations (LSCO) because without one, we risk learning the wrong lessons from history and being unprepared for the next war. Without…
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Coercive Strategies and Their Inertial...
On 24 February 2022, Russia initiated an invasion of Ukraine. Western powers made plenty of threats during the preceding weeks that did nothing to dissuade Russian aggression. It seems that…
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Armed Drones: Evolution as a Counterterrorism Tool
Armed drones (also commonly called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs) are unmanned aircraft designed to identify, surveil, and engage ground-based targets—ranging from material to individuals—with kinetic weapons. The United States…
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