The Space Force's first "Red Skies" orbital warfare exercise tested whether guardians could command and control multiple satellites amid simulated threats.
There should be a fully resourced information operations branch dedicated to grooming personnel who have a comprehensive understanding of how to shape the information environment, says the author of this commentary.
The Corps needs new technology to help track mushrooming open source information about potential threats from news reports, social media, the dark web and other sources.
The treaty limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, and envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
The treaty was intended to build trust between Russia and the West by allowing the accord’s more than three dozen signatories to conduct reconnaissance flights over each other’s territories.
Talks between Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and the Philippine defense and foreign secretaries centered on "deepening our alliance and supporting a free and open South China Sea and Indo-Pacific region."
President Donald Trump made good on his decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, but it looks like President-elect Joe Biden, who opposed that move, may have a path to revive the pact.
With the official withdrawal from the treaty, which allowed the U.S. and Russia overflight rights to inspect military facilities, only one arms-control pact is still in force between the former Cold War foes.