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R. Jordan Prescott, RealClearDefense According to historian Robert Coram, the A-10… Source link

BELFAST and MILAN — Russia’s Victory Day parade in Red Square over the weekend came and went without the usual accompaniment of high-end weapon systems and power projection that has long symbolized the annual event, as Moscow decided to scale back on both hardware and military personnel amid fears of a Ukrainian attack. While normally defense analysts use the parade to gauge Russian military and technical prowess, several told Breaking Defense that this year the lack of gear showed something else: Moscow’s implicit acknowledgement that Ukrainian capabilities remains a serious threat, more than four years since Russia’s invasion. One described…

The Modi government has built its foreign policy around the claim that India has graduated from hedging to civilizational confidence. Its deepening rapprochement with Beijing since Donald Trump’s return to the White House suggests the opposite. New Delhi has hedged more toward China without articulating any condition under which it would hedge back. Beijing noticed, as is clear from a recent revelation. On May 8, China’s state broadcaster CCTV aired interviews with two engineers from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), confirming for the first time that Chinese technical personnel were physically present at Pakistani operational bases during the…

The transformation of India’s defence posture through space is now a defining feature of its strategic evolution. The traditional notion of the “high ground” has shifted from mountain ridges and coastlines into the exosphere, where orbital dominance will determine the outcome of future wars.As General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff, warned at the DefSpace Symposium 2026, India risks fighting blind if it fails to secure its interests in space. Conversely, mastery of this silent frontier will provide foresight and precision once thought to be science fiction.This imperative is driving a profound reorganisation of India’s defence architecture, with the Armed…

Bloomberg The U.S. Navy said it plans to buy at least 15 new battleships endorsed by President Donald Trump over the next 30 years, according to its new shipbuilding plan Source link

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers today that the department may be reevaluating some of the steep aviation budget cuts spurred by the Army Transformation Initiative. “I actually think it’s something we’re taking another look at,” Hegseth told Rep. Rosa DeLauro when asked about the drastic drop in funding for high-profile helo programs in the Pentagon’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget. “There are some very good things in the Army Transformation Initiative, and there are some things that we’ve needed to get another look at, and so I think you’ll see a review of some of those things.”  ATI, announced…

This is Part I of a four-part series on “The First Airtight Empire” – analyzing the historically unprecedented closure that the Chinese Communist Party is constructing in 2026, and how that closure has rendered American policy assumptions obsolete. Subsequent installments will examine the three lockdowns through which the Chinese population was conditioned to accept the airtight closure that followed (Part II), the four-dimensional architecture by which the closure has been mechanically engineered (Part III), and the long historical frame and policy implications that follow (Part IV). By “airtight,” in this series, I mean a closure engineered to ensure that any…

India’s IOS Sagar initiative represents a bold experiment in building a navy of neighbours, embedding regional personnel into Indian deployments to foster interoperability and shared maritime governance, wrote Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury. Its success will depend on consistency, inclusivity, and India’s ability to balance strategic ambition with regional ownership.An Indian warship sailed from Mumbai last month carrying 38 personnel from 16 countries alongside its Indian crew, marking the second edition of the Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar initiative. The deployment spans the Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, reflecting India’s intent to intensify regional outreach.This initiative, launched in 2025, aims…

U.S. Naval Institute Staff, U.S. Navy The Department of the Navy currently operates 291 battle force ships, while the Navy requirement by law is 355 Source link

WASHINGTON — The Trump-class battleship will be outfitted with the same nuclear reactor that powers the aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford, according to the Navy’s top officer.  The Navy confirmed in its shipbuilding plan on Monday that the battleship would be nuclear-powered, and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said that the battleship would share several design features with the Ford — including the A1B nuclear reactor on the carrier, the steam generator, and reactor cooling pump components.  “All of that technology that’s going into the design of the battleship, the nuclear battleship, from the reactor plant perspective, is…