Air Force to test hypersonic missile
The Air Force is moving ahead with a revolutionary high-speed missile that will be tested in the coming weeks, according to officials.
The Air Force is moving ahead with a revolutionary high-speed missile that will be tested in the coming weeks, according to officials.
SharesWilliam J. Burns, the veteran diplomat tapped to be the next CIA director, says he will follow through with the agency's plans to adopt artificial intelligence technology to counter the large and aggressive activities of Chinese spies.
SharesA Navy message to all sailors and Marines outlines some of the Biden administration's thinking regarding combating radicalism within the services, following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's call for a stand-down throughout the military on "extremism."
SharesThe Department of Homeland Security has dropped plans for a federal rule that would have required American schools and universities to disclose agreements with Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes on their campuses.
SharesAfter more than a year of delays imposed by the Chinese government, a World Health Organization team probing the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic visited the suspect Wuhan Institute of Virology on Wednesday.
SharesDocuments leaked from the National Security Agency in 2014 revealed that the nation's premier spy service was secretly stealing electronic and other secrets by hacking Huawei Technologies telecommunications gear used widely in China and around the world.
SharesOutgoing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe dropped a political bombshell in a report issued in the final days of the Trump administration, accusing U.S. intelligence analysts of politicization by playing down China's role in interference with the Nov. 3 presidential election.
SharesAn interagency group of scientists and medical experts formed to study the origin of the coronavirus is deadlocked over how to report their conclusions in the waning days of the Trump administration.
SharesRetired Israeli Lt. Col. Dany Shoham, who was among the first to suggest that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak may be linked to China's military research, now believes there is a strong possibility that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
SharesRep. Eric Swalwell, a liberal California Democrat who last year for a short time was a Democratic presidential candidate, is under fire for his relationship with a Chinese national suspected of being an agent of the Ministry of State Security, the Chinese intelligence service.
SharesAfter this column first disclosed the large number of pro-China officials and holdovers from the Obama administration sitting on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, the board has been belatedly purged and new advisers will be named in the coming days.
SharesThe federal government's $1.2 trillion program to upgrade U.S. nuclear forces is in jeopardy with the election of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden and a Congress that could be led in both chambers by Democrats.
SharesPentagon counterspy report on growing threats
SharesPresumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden has indicated plans to continue vigorous American policies toward China, but his record suggests he will return to the appeasement policies toward Beijing of Democratic and Republican administrations before President Trump.
SharesThe Trump administration is stepping up efforts to bolster Taiwan's defenses, announcing this week that its latest arms sale package includes the first transfer of advanced Reaper drones capable of firing missiles. Four MQ-9 Reaper drones were approved for sale to Taiwan by the State Department in a package worth an estimated $600 million.
SharesChina is building a second seaport on this strategic Indian Ocean island as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing's global expansion strategy.
SharesThe Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, an influential advisory panel of former officials, is dominated by experts who do not reflect the hard-line policies toward China put into place under President Trump, according to analysts.
SharesThe State and Education departments on Wednesday warned school administrators around the country that China's "Confucius Classrooms" program is a government influence operation targeting young students.
SharesPresident Trump has signed an executive order aimed at countering China's drive to corner the international market on rare earth minerals -- key elements used in high-tech products that are the backbone of the U.S. economy and key weapons systems.
SharesThe Pentagon needs better weapons for waging warfare below the level of conventional military conflict -- such as information and intelligence warfare capabilities -- to win against strategic competitors, according to a report by the Defense Science Board.
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