Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 16, 2018

Dan Goure, National Interest: The U.S. Army Is Back

Military modernization is a process of continual change. Fortunately, while the Pentagon was forced to take a 20-year procurement holiday, the aerospace and defense industry continued to work on new concepts and capabilities. They also learned how to adapt commercial technologies to the military’s needs. As a result, the Army may have found much of what it needs to jump-start modernization at the AUSA annual conference.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 16, 2018

Army Wants Bradley Replacement to Vastly Outgun the Enemy -- Military.com

The Army Has Big Plans for a Light, Fast and Deadly Super Tank. Here's What We Know So Far. -- National Interest

The awesome things the Army wants its next recon helicopter to do -- We Are The Mighty

Inside The Army’s Pursuit Of A High-Tech 6.8mm Round -- Task & Purpose/Military.com

The U.S. military creates tech to control drones with thoughts -- Big Think

New Gold-Silver Alloy To Supply U.S. Military With Lighter, More Powerful Devices -- Kitco

Dumb and Dumber: The Army’s New PT Test -- War On The Rocks

Is this the world’s toughest military exercise? -- Newsrep

New Marine Correctional Unit 'Like Boot Camp All Over Again' -- Military.com/Stars and Stripes

More than 80 percent of F-35s cleared for flight after fuel tube problem -- The Hill

Most F-35s cleared for flight operations after grounding last week -- UPI

Pentagon scrambles to bolster war readiness with aging aircraft fleet -- Washington Times

Microsoft employees urge company not to pursue $10 billion Pentagon contract -- The Hill

Mattis says he thought 'nothing at all' about Trump saying he may leave administration -- The Hill

Mattis says Trump backs him '100 percent' despite 'Democrat' remark -- The Hill

Who would replace Mattis? -- Foreign Policy

Saudi Arabia is losing Lindsey Graham, a key ally of US arms sales -- Defense News

Microsoft, Amazon CEOs Stand By Defense Work After Google Bails on JEDI -- NextGov

China's Communist party expels former military chief; transfers his graft case to military court -- Economic Times

Beijing defends warship confrontation in the South China Sea -- AP

Why you're seeing more of Japan's military -- Brad Lendon, CNN

Japanese Amphibious Soldiers Hit the Beach in the Philippines with U.S. Marines, 7th Fleet -- USNI News

South Korea to buy ship-based interceptors to counter ballistic missile threats -- Defense News

Australia says alliance with America vital with Indo-Pacific tensions -- AP

Russia’s Pacific Fleet wraps up visit to South Korea -- TASS

Russian-Pakistani military drills to be held on October 21-November 4 -- TASS

Russian Embassy in London says Bellingcat may be linked to special services -- TASS

Two Pilots Die Following Su-27 Fighter Jet Crash in Ukraine - General Staff -- Sputnik

UK and German forces test military mobility en route to NATO’s biggest exercise in decades -- NATO

NATO cyber command to be fully operational in 2023 -- Reuters

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Surprising Alliance Between Astrophysicists and the Military -- The New York Times

With ‘Hunter Killer’ Gerard Butler Wants to Revamp the Submarine Movie, Navy Wants to Boost Recruiting -- USNI News

Brazil's military poised to amass power after three-decade wait -- Stars and Stipes/Bloomberg

Trump's 'Arab NATO' Project Is Doomed -- Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Newsweek