The Trump administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy represents a “fundamental shift” in defense and deterrence policy for the U.S., one of its authors told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
An unclassified synopsis of long-range emerging national security threats warns the U.S. military and its allies will need to be nimble in the face of widening efforts by adversaries to achieve objectives without resorting to conflict and to also be prepared for widening threats from advanced weapons such as hypersonic missiles, electronic warfare and cyber weapons.
Co-chairs of the National Defense Strategy Commission warned Nov. 27 about complacency.
While a national commission is forming to review implications of artificial intelligence in national security programs, the Association of the U.S. Army will host a two-day symposium in Detroit looking at ways autonomous systems, machine learning and robotics can be used to expand capabilities and solve military problems.
Hosted by AUSA’s Institute of Land Warfare, the Army Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Symposium and Exposition will be held Nov. 28–29 at the Cobo Center on the riverfront in downtown Detroit.
A new document called “The Army Strategy” adds to the growing list of fundamental papers describing the purpose and goals of America’s military.
The 11-page document signed by Army Secretary Mark T. Esper and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley augments the previously released Army Vision statement, the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy.
Esper and Milley said the documents are linked. “The Army Strategy describes the strategic environment and the lines of effort we will pursue to achieve the Army Vision by 2028,” they write.
U.S. military leaders “are right to be alarmed” by the impact of artificial intelligence on future operations, warns a new research paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare.
Written by Maj. Christopher Telley, an Army information operations officer, the paper says automatic information operations with the ability to influence tens of thousands of people at once have “grave implications for U.S. national security.”
The U.S. and NATO partners have made “significant progress” in the security of Europe but face challenges from Russian efforts to destabilize the Continent, the U.S. European Command commanding general told Congress.
The 2017 National Security Strategy released Dec. 18 by the White House calls for renewing the U.S.’s competitive military advantages.
In a time when Army strategists are talking about multidomain operations, a new paper from the AUSA’s Institute of Land Warfare says WWII offers strong lessons.
The Army’s foundational manual for operations—Field Manual 3-0: Operations—has been updated to recognize a broader and more complex security environment.
