Defense —FRONT PAGE: Fri, October 16

U.S. Army Now Three Years Late Fielding Hypersonic Missile
Bloomberg
Army Wants High-Energy Laser To Put On “Any Vehicle”
Joseph Trevithick • WarZone
Army Building Up New Space Operations Branch
Courtney Albon, Chris Gordon • A&SF
How Army Special Ops Trains Its New Robot Technicians
Sydney Freedberg • BrDef
Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
Mongilio • USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
M+A El
When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
Armor Up?
Marine Corps Compass Points
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
CDR Salamander
Trump Overrules Hegseth’s Plans for a Livestreamed Execution
The Washington Sun
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
Joshua Segal • RCD
Trump Administration Mulls Using 'Mother of All Bombs' Against Iran
Military.com
Why Data Centers Have Become Military Targets
Richard Hall • Time
Ukraine Abandons Truce and Attacks Russian Oil Refinery
Susie Blann • AP
Ukraine’s Eastwards Counterattack Is Proving Successful Thanks to Artillery
SN
Russia, China and Iran Harness AI for U.S. Midterm Disinformation
Bloomberg

RealClearDefense Thursday

Army Creates New Formations To Test Autonomous Warfare
Rachel S. Cohen • FNN
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
Trevithick • The WarZone
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
Daniel Terrill • Defense News
Project Meridian To Take On Major Foundational Changes for the Military
WT
USSOCOM Test Drone Laser for Longer Mortar Shots
Dylan Malyasov • Defence Blog
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
The Aviationist
NORTHCOM's JTF-Gold To Coordinate Cyber Warfare for Golden Dome
BrDef
U.S. Marines' MADIS Air Defense System Is Getting a Driverless Ride
NGD
The Space Force Showed Us Its Weapons Used in Iran and Venezuela
WSJ
Even by Recent Standards, This Year's Continuing Resolution Is a Disaster
TNI
Fixing the Army's MDMP Fixation
Zachary Griffiths • Modern War Institute
The Mother of All Cutters
Brian J. Dunn • CIMSEC
Preventing the Next World War
Robert Peters & Wilson Beaver • RealClearDefense
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RCD
NATO Exercise Cobra Warrior Flies More than 900 Sorties
Craig Langford • UKDJ
China's Next Frontier
Kathleen Curlee & Sam Bresnick • Foreign Affairs
Chinese Carrier Strike Group Drills in the Philippine Sea
Dzirhan Mahadzir • USNI N.

The New Geography of America’s China Dependence
Junyang Hu, Jiayu Lai • Orbis
NATO’s SACEUR Gen Alexus Grynkewich Is Not Telling the Truth
L. Todd Wood • AFP
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
The Pentagon’s New ‘Distinguished Military Colleges’
Liam Collins, John Spencer • WSJ

When Presidents Fight the Last War
John H. Modinger • Military Review
Great Power, Great Responsibility
Lucas F. Schleusener • DODReads
The Rocky Path to Prosecuting Terror
Andrew C. McCarthy • The Washington Free Beacon
Great Power, Great Responsibility
Lucas F. Schleusener • DODReads

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