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Greg Hadley, A&SF Mag. The F-35 Joint Program Office awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.6 billion contract for spare parts for the fighter jet last week, a record sum for the program Source link

Street protests continued across Ukraine for a tenth day on Saturday in support of former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, whom President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired and then attempted to placate with offers of different jobs. Fedorov is having none of it, saying on Thursday,  “I will not accept any position other than Minister of Defense. No other role carries the actual authority to combat procurement corruption.” The rift has exposed rival factions at the center of Ukrainian leadership, pulling the country in opposite directions as it fights for its existence. “Game of Thrones” is how one former senior Ukrainian military official…

ASPI ‘Xen’, a former U.S. special forces operator who has worked with a Ukrainian special forces regiment, told me that in 2020, he had worked with a U.S. SOF unit training Ukrainian special… Source link

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Jake Brantley, CIMSEC As great power competition expands into new domains and climate change alters global geography, the Arctic and Antarctica have become central pieces of the national… Source link

Stephen D. Cook, RCDefense . . . the rising appeal of democratic socialism, is creating a republic uniquely vulnerable to external pressure from a near-peer adversary determined to supplant… Source link

Will Hasting, RCDefense When most people think of drones, they typically picture one of two things: a weapon of war or a bothersome toy hovering uninvited over backyards and public… Source link

Lance Gordon, RCD U.S. military operations have degraded Iranian capabilities, but they have not altered Tehran’s belief that it can outlast Washington or continue threatening neighboring… Source link

Sarah El Deeb, AP The United States has gradually expanded the scope of its attacks against Iran over the course of two weeks of punishing airstrikes that increasingly resemble