Defense —FRONT PAGE: Fri, October 23

Bombers Could Have a Major Air-to-Air Combat Role
Joseph Trevithick • The WarZone
Pentagon, Lockheed Agree to 10-Year Deal for 850 F-35 Jets
M. Scanlon • Military T.
Army Wants To Test and Field New Drone Defenses in Under Six Months
Task&Purp.
Army’s Extended-Range GMLRS Towards Production
Singsit • Army Technology
The Marine Corps Has a Boot Problem
Travis Pike • Sandboxx News
Report Calls for Pentagon to Build a ‘Digital Golden Dome’
Josh Luckenbaugh • NatDef
MDA Awards Long Wall Contract for Low-Cost, Midcourse Interceptor Testing
BrD
Space Force Shifts Into High Gear on Cislunar Warfare
Theresa Hitchens • BrDefense
Pentagon Sued Over Data Breach Affecting More Than 3 Million
Anastasia Obis • FNN
Pentagon’s Nuclear Push Expands
Ben Wolfgang • The Washington Times
Palmer Luckey Unveils Start-Up To Breed Military ‘Genetically Enhanced’ Dogs
FT
Faster Simulations, Better Defense Decisions
Rut Lineswala • RealClearDefense
How Operation Spider’s Web Has Changed the Rules of Airpower
Frank Rose • RCD
U.S. Military Returns to the Philippines With a New Model To Check China
EAT
Germany’s Military Warns of ‘Significant’ Russian Sabotage Threat
Reuters
U.S., Israel Weigh New Iran Strikes
Alison Bath • Stars and Stripes
China Sends Navy After U.S. Warship
Francis Kapper • Daily Signal

RealClearDefense Thursday

U.S. Navy to Begin Testing for USS Lyndon B Johnson (DDG 1002)
Naval-Technology
Navy F/A-18 Spotted With New AIM-174B And AIM-260 Long-Range Missiles
TWZ
Air Force Needs 1,509 Combat-Ready Jets by 2035
Michael Marrow • Breaking Defense
Pentagon’s 6th Generation Stealth Fighter Will Control Drone Swarms
Warrior M.
Marine Corps Moves To Expand Maven Smart System Account Access
DefScoop
Close Combat
Charles D. Melson • Marine Corps Gazette
DoD Memo Greenlights DHS Use of Military ‘Heat Ray’
Adam Gramegna • Military.com
Pentagon Competition Seeks to Revolutionize Military Bases
Laura Heckmann • NDM
Empires of AI
Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen, Eric Schmidt • Foreign Affairs
The AI Race Is a Race We Cannot Afford to Lose
Francis P. Sempa • American Spectator
The Underground Cloud
Ben Poulin • RealClearDefense
Building a Scalable National Security STEM Workforce
P. Uday, K. Thornton • RCD
Defense Cyber Crime Center Seeing a Record Number of Insider Threats
FNN
Diplomats Race to Head Off Escalation With Iran
Summer Said, et al. • WSJ
Deepening Black Sea Crisis Demands U.S. Involvement
Montgomery & Pup • CEPA
Putin Makes Nuclear Threats Over Kaliningrad
Vadim Shtepa • Eurasia Daily Monitor
Russia Builds Powerful New Radar
John Vandiver • Stars and Stripes

The Pentagon's Culture War is Hurting the Military
Steve Cohen • Proceedings
Will HASC Have an Oversight Subcommittee in the Next Congress?
C.J. Bright • RCD
A Less-Is-More Strategy for America
Barry R. Posen • Foreign Affairs
The U.S. is Overpaying for Missiles
Alex Lee • RealClearDefense

Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945
Jeffrey Schultz • Strategy Page
How America Was Chartered
Carson Holloway • Modern Age
A Continent Erupts
Ching Wah Chin • Strategy Page
The Navy Said Her Son Died by Suicide – the Fight for Truth
Ruiz • We Are the Mighty

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