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Feb 11, 2021
The Pentagon has a new China Task Force headed by Ely Ratner, a former adviser to President Joe Biden, that is charged with assessing whether the Defense Department is poised to outpace China in a “technology competition.”
Feb 11, 2021
Germany will decide on the selection of a new fleet of heavy-lift helicopters before the summer of 2021, a position paper on the transformation of Germany’s armed forces states. 
Feb 08, 2021
The U.S. is freezing the sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia as part of a broader Biden administration policy shift of not supporting the nation’s war in Yemen.
Feb 08, 2021
Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has announced that he will not seek a seventh term in 2022.
Feb 05, 2021
The top officers in the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps recently reinvigorated debate surrounding military readiness and recommended adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to the mix of existing metrics.
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden announced a broad series of actions that impact national security and foreign policy on Feb. 4, which include reviewing the military’s global force posture and freezing troop withdrawals from Germany.
Feb 04, 2021
Hidden among some fairly stark top-level figures for India’s 2021-22 defense budget is some positive news for suppliers to the country and for the Indian military’s stalled modernization process.
Feb 02, 2021
Like U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing, Deputy Defense Secretary Nominee Kathleen Hicks said she supports the nuclear triad, but was careful not to comment on specific programs.