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In 2023, the Navy’s ‘silent service’ started making noise
The advent of AUKUS has brought the Navy's submarine community into the national spotlight and that has led it to breakaway from its historical silence.
The advent of AUKUS has brought the Navy's submarine community into the national spotlight and that has led it to breakaway from its historical silence.
Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman set the tone early in the year by telling Breaking Defense a major focus over 2023 would be aiming for baseline, targeted zero trust within four years.
The Army spent 2023 looking for ways to refill its weapon stockpiles, preparing for future conflicts and welcoming a new chief.
Months of Chinese harassment of Philippine vessels culminated in early December with up to 135 Chinese ships swarming the Philippines around Scarborough Shoal.
From tectonic geopolitical shifts to billion-dollar-defense deals, here's just some of the key events in the Middle East in 2023.
Alliance expansion might force Russia to reassess a strategic calculus around a war beyond Ukraine’s borders, but tough questions around just how long Kyiv can defend itself are beginning to be asked.
There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in space, from Geneva to Washington to Colorado Springs to Los Angeles.
"How in the hell do you lose an F-35?"
Even before the big announcement from the heads of state in March, 2023 has been filled with AUKUS news.
From expendable drones, to ad hoc battle networks, to hacker “armies” of volunteers, the war in Ukraine has shown the big-spending US military new ways to fight in the Information Age.
This year Breaking Defense heard straight from some top network and tech officials in the Pentagon about their ambitious plans.
The biggest strategic shift in the Indo-Pacific was clearly the combination of China's economy faltering at the same time as turmoil roiled the top echelons of the Chinese Communist Party and its government.
In 2023, the US Army eyed ways to better support troops in the Indo-Pacific region, and ways to restructure its formations for the future.
Long before the Middle East was plunged into a new Israel-Gaza conflict, plenty of geopolitical plates had shifted, with major defense deals in the balance.
As 2023 is coming to a close, time is running out for Congress, the Pentagon and the Biden administration to act, write AEI's Elaine McCusker and John Ferrari in this op-ed.