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Jan. 12, 2024
DOD Releases First Defense Industrial Strategy

The National Defense Industrial Strategy lays out long-term priorities that will guide DOD actions and resource prioritization with the aim of creating a modern, resilient defense industrial ecosystem.
Sept. 18, 2023
DAF leaders emphasize modernization, readiness

The Department of the Air Force’s top officials provided a series of keynote speeches and panel discussions at the Air and Space Forces Association 2023 Air, Space and Cyber Conference Sept. 11-13.
Nov. 1, 2022
DOD releases National Defense Strategy, missile defense, nuclear posture reviews

The 2022 National Defense Strategy places a primary focus on the need to sustain and strengthen U.S. deterrence against China and advances a focus on collaboration with a growing network of U.S. allies and partners on shared objectives.
Aug. 15, 2022
In assessing his first year, Kendall sees achievement but many challenges ahead

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall reflects on his first year on the job.
May 12, 2022
Top Intelligence Chiefs Testify on Global Threats

Two top U.S. intelligence officials testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on global threats to the United States and its allies emanating from China, Russia and Iran, as well as terrorist organizations.
May 12, 2022
Austin Says 2023 Budget Built on New Defense Strategy

The fiscal 2023 defense budget request was built on the bones of the new National Defense Strategy, and the request is adequate for today's military and ensures the military remains strong in the future, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said.
May 12, 2022
DOD Focused on Hypersonic Missile Defense Development, Admiral Says

The Missile Defense Agency mission is to develop and deploy a layered missile defense system to defend the United States and its deployed forces, allies and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight, the agency's director said.
March 29, 2022
Department of the Air Force budget proposal focuses on transformation, modernization

While transformation and modernization are needed in real time, the 2023 fiscal year proposal is designed to build momentum for additional transformation in future budgets.
March 9, 2022
Defense Official Says Indo-Pacific Is the Priority Theater; China Is DOD's Pacing Challenge

The Indo-Pacific region remains the priority theater for the Defense Department, and China remains the pacing challenge for the U.S. military, the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs said.
Feb. 25, 2022
Competition with China: Strategic Perceptions

Part of CASI's "Competition With China" video series which helps Airmen better understand the strategic competition with China broadly, and takes a deep look at many of the military and security aspects of that competition. CASI uses source documents to research and report on China’s aerospace
Feb. 24, 2022
Changes Coming to Enlisted Joint Professional Military Education

Change is coming to enlisted professional military education ensuring the new realities of strategic competition are addressed and emphasizing joint education, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman said.
Jan. 28, 2022
US INDOPACOM’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Vision 2028: Integrated Deterrence toward a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Over the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, China carried out its strategy to counter US power presence within island chains in a synchronized, methodical manner by extending its own basing in the South China Sea with manmade islands and inhabiting sovereign territory of
Jan. 28, 2022
CASI Webinar on China and Cyber

CASI hosted a webinar focused on Cyber issues related to the PRC. We were joined by Naomi Wilson, Vice president of policy for Asia at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI); Prof SHEN Yi, Associate Professor of the Department of International Politics, School of International
Jan. 26, 2022
Preparing for War with China, 2025–2032

The US needs to prepare for potential war with China in the 2032 timeframe. Some leaders may choose to ignore the signs of China's designs for altering the world's balance of power. However, that does not erase China's aggressive behavior in the SCS and ECS over the past 10 years. Likewise, the USAF
Jan. 24, 2022
Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Construct through Strategic Geopolitical Convergences: AUKUS as a Harbinger of a Multipolar Hegemony in the Region

As the rivalry between the United States and China intensifies with the changing political and security dynamics in the region, a shift in international politics and geostrategic priorities is inevitable. Since the end of World War II, the United States has projected power across this region, and
Jan. 24, 2022
Unmasking the Devil in the Details- A Comparative Analysis of the Science of Military Strategy 2017 and 2020

The textbook series of Science of Military Strategy (战略学/SMS) have long been regarded as a valuable reference for the field of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) studies. Like all textbooks, however, the SMS is not a bible of Chinese strategic thinking. Its influence on current and future PLA leaders is
Jan. 19, 2022
Dragons Must Eat: China’s Food Insecurity and Strategic Vulnerability

Although definitions of vary, most formulations of the term focus on the ability to reliably satisfy a population basic nutrition requirements despite friction and adverse circumstances with domestic production or imports. Historically, food security has been a critical Chinese strategic goal, and
Jan. 13, 2022
DOD Officials Say Service Members, Families Pay Price of Continuing Resolutions

Service members and their families will suffer if Congress passes a full-year continuing resolution for fiscal 2022, Defense Department officials told the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
Jan. 2, 2022
AFCLC launches new introduction to China, Russia courses with certificates on Culture Guide app

The Air Force Culture and Language Center recently added Introduction to China and Introduction to Russia culture courses and a video library to its newly updated, free Culture Guide mobile app.
Dec. 21, 2021
Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation’s Impact on Chinese Aerospace RD&A

We should not forget that in the “Era of Great Power Competition,” the United States has two peer “Strategic Competitors” and several others with whom we compete. When our two largest competitors, namely the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, cooperate toward their common

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