An End To Pentagon Wish Lists?

In a move that could inject some much needed discipline into the annual process of crafting the Pentagon budget, the department’s comptroller, Mike McCord has signaled that the department now opposes the legal requirement that the military services submit annual “wish lists” of items they would like to have that have not been included in […]

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In A Surprise, China-Linked TikTok Grabs Power Norway Needs To Make Ammo

Days before the European Union formally agreed to a landmark, 2 billion Euro deal, bolstering depleted NATO arsenals and expanding European ammunition-manufacturing infrastructure, TikTok, the embattled China-linked viral video provider, finalized a plan to commission a 150-megawatt data center in central Norway. The move leaves one of Europe’s largest ammunition production facilities without enough power […]

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Ukraine Made Exactly One Oddball Kevlar-E Fighting Vehicle. It’s Been Battling Around Kharkiv For A Year.

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Ukrainian army’s weirdest infantry fighting vehicle shouldn’t have survived this long. That it has survived might be an argument for the Ukrainians to make more copies. The sole Kevlar-E IFV was just a prototype for a class of new armored vehicle—for export, primarily—when Russia widened […]

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