Monday, January 27, 2020

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 27, 2020

Breaking Defense: Pentagon Chief Readies Congress For Messy Budget Battles

The DoD wants to invest in new technologies, but no real budget growth means it's going to have to cut, and cut big to free up cash.

WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Mark Esper began prepping Congress for what will likely be a series of heated battles over military modernization and scrapping legacy systems on Friday, warning that budgets “aren’t going to get any better. They are where they are.”

Esper’s comments reflect the reality of the two-year budget deal reached between Congress and the White House in July, which caps the 2021 budget at $740 billion, just a tick higher than the $738 billion allocated this year.

The internal squabbles set off by that flatline bled into the open last week when Navy, Army, and Air Force officials all said they’re not receiving their fair share of the budgetary pie.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 27, 2020

Why Does the US Spend So Much on Defense? -- Patrick Collins, Defense One

Iran war vote and top-secret brief scheduled in Congress, despite impeachment -- Defense News

The Navy Is Making Big Changes to the Way it Plans for Future Ships -- Military.com

The Navy's newest aircraft carrier just took a major step on its path to deployment -- Task & Purpose

The U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship: A Successful Catastrophe? -- National Interest

Norfolk Naval Shipyard breaks ground on $200M dry dock renovation -- UPI

U.S. Navy’s first MQ-4C Triton UAS Begins Initial Pacific Deployment -- Naval News

Navy fast-tracks offensive capabilities like hypersonic weapons, SPY-6 radar, and Maritime Tomahawk -- Military & Aerospace

DoD Stays Quiet About FY 2021 Funding For Expanding Navy Fleet -- USNI News

The Air Force Has Given the F-22 a New Weapon (And a New Way to Wage War Too) -- National Interest

US Air Force Use Mi-24 Helicopters to Simulate Enemy in Drills -- Sputnik

US Army picks 6 to work on autoloader for extended-range cannon -- Defense News

Prospective Army Battalion COs Must Now Face Senior Officer Grilling, Psych Review -- Military.com

A new satellite to produce imagery for the intelligence community -- C4ISRNet

Two Army Ranger medics saved lives by taking fresh blood from uninjured soldiers in the middle of a firefight -- Task & Purpose

US Army Reserve soldier serving in Syria dies from injuries sustained in rollover accident -- ABC News

US Army general says he's mourning a soldier killed in Syria instead of Kobe Bryant -- Business Insider

Lockheed adds Dunford, former top US military officer, to board -- Defense News

A group of sham companies sold the US Navy $2.7 million worth of nothing -- Quartz

Navy investigating secret videos of sailors posted on porn site -- The Hill

The US is committed to Syria mission, says top American general in the Middle East -- Military Times/AP

Why America Loses Wars. -- Heather Venable, RCD/Strategy Bridge

British Defence Ministry reveals why a drone program now costs $427M extra -- Defense News

UFOpen for business: Britain’s Royal Air Force to declassify X-Files kept in secret for years -- RT

Russia invites NATO members to International Army Games exercise -- Defense Post

Report: Russia delivers S-400 missile system to China -- UPI

Watchdog: China is 2nd largest arms producer behind the US -- AP

With Its New Aircraft Carrier, Is China Now a Blue Water Navy? -- The Diplomat

Pakistan Navy vs. Indian Navy: Complete list of Weapons they possess -- Global Village Space

India's Army stocking up munitions for 40-day war -- Times of India

Egyptian army flexes muscle near border with Libya -- Al-Monitor

4 comments:

Bob Huntley said...

"Why Does the US Spend So Much on Defense? -- Patrick Collins, Defense One"

Hint. It is not being spent on defense?

Anonymous said...

How is it that Canada spends so little?

If Canada wasn't part of NATO or not an US ally would the Chinese send fishing trawlers a few miles off of Canada's west coast and just rape the sea?

Of course Bob will have an excuse.

Why does Canada have a crappy surface and sub fleet?

How come the US had Navajo code talkers and the Canadians never did? What is wrong with Canada?

Anonymous said...

Funny. Asswipe commenter at 4:44 did not read the article he posted about.

Bob Huntley said...

You are aware of course that the US Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War?