It's notable how the Islamist threat has receded, and emphasis on "near peer" battle engagements has taken center stage. The 2018 National Defense Strategy has changed all that. It's major advocate was SecDef General Mattis before resigning over the Syrian deployment. WASHINGTON — The Army National Guard will move most of its brigades under the command of its eight division headquarters as it reorganizes its fighting formations to give the force more combat power and some soldiers new … [Read more...]
China Launches Ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars Rover Mission
Trump was right to challenge China, to make it clear to all that China is not a "trading partner", China is America's foremost geopolitical adversary. The Chinese have emerged in a few short decades as rivals to America in many fields of national & human endeavors. Military power; supercomputers; artificial intelligence; now space. #ColdWarII China's first fully homegrown Mars mission is on its way to the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 rocket from Hainan … [Read more...]
Pentagon Names 20 Chinese Firms It Says Are Military-Controlled
The Pentagon unveiled a list of companies it says are owned or controlled by China’s military, opening them to increased scrutiny in the latest spat between the world’s biggest economies. The 20 companies included Huawei Technologies Co. and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., as well as a number of state-run enterprises. In letters to lawmakers dated June 24, the Pentagon said it was providing a list of “Communist Chinese military companies operating in the United States,” which was … [Read more...]
Final Chinese Satellite in Orbit | Rival to US GPS Network
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday successfully put into orbit its final Beidou satellite, completing a navigation network years in the making and setting the stage to challenge the U.S.-owned Global Positioning System (GPS). The idea to develop Beidou, or the Big Dipper in Chinese, took shape in the 1990s as China’s military sought to reduce its reliance on GPS, which is run by the U.S. Air Force. Coverage was limited to China when the first Beidou-1 satellites were launched in 2000. Now … [Read more...]