Via Open To Debate -- Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has provided more than $75 billion in aid to Ukraine, which has been directed toward military operat...
Two countries’ air forces get a huge boost with an influx of American-made fighter jets - find out who got approved for $30 billion in upgraded planes
The U.S. and British militaries bombed multiple targets in eight locations used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday night, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated r...
U.S. Navy and Marines from a Mideast Task Force transported armored vehicles Saturday to a U.S. Naval Support Activity facility at Souda Bay on the Greek island of Crete. (Jan. 22) AP
In August of this year, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the “Replicator Initiative” a new program to field thousands of less costly autonomous weapon systems. Aimed direc...
The US spends more on its military that the next nine nations combined.
The M230 is a remarkable piece of engineering that has played a pivotal role in modern military technology.
Anduril Industries is a U.S. based defense contracting company that is using modern technology to reshape how defense weapons are created.
As China’s military capabilities grow, discussions about the US posture in the Pacific often return to the question how large a force does the US need to deter or possibly confront the Chinese ...
Cannon-Based Air Defense – or CBAD – integrates sensors, battle management command and control, and effectors to provide scalable, cost effective, and resilient terminal defense against a wid...
The MQ-4C Triton is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Northrop Grumman for the United States Navy.
Changing the tires on the Air Force's largest plane, the C-5M Super Galaxy
The Telegraph had exclusive access to US munitions facility, Picatinny Arsenal, to see how the war in Ukraine is changing military logistics.
As the F-35 becomes more advanced, it will require cooling technology in the cockpit. Visit Honeywell’s AFA booth to learn more about their plan.
The U.S. Air Force released today two new photos of the B-21 Raider bomber, including one from a previously unseen angle outside the hangar.
With multi-millions of users worldwide – both civilian and military – relying on Global Positioning System’s (GPS) accurate positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) information, it’s not...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/09/13/gps_iii_979267.html
Joint all domain command and control, or CJADC2 is a DoD concept that will connect data-centric information from all branches of service, partners, and allies, into an internet of military things...
John Waters speaks with entrepreneur, Army veteran, and author Mike Erwin about applying lessons from the military to positive leadership off the battlefield. Erwin is a graduate of West Point an...
The war in Ukraine has rapidly reshaped how strategists think about the modern battlefield, especially the use of drones, cyber, social media, and the importance of electronic warfare. Looking at...
As Republican candidates prepare for the debate in Ohio, does the GOP have a China strategy? In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, Mike Gallagher c...
On today’s “Hot Wash,” CNN’s Jake Tapper talks about his new fiction thriller “All the Demons Are Here” about an AWOL US Marine back from the Vietnam War and lost in the chaos of the ...
Welcome to the first episode of BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front, presented by RealClearDefense, in which we ask a member of Congress 7 questions that cut to the chase of what they’re doing and why t...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/07/27/rep_mark_green_what_is_your_bluf_968969.html
Pratt & Whitney Episode Summary Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “Oppenheimer” opens this weekend. For the story behind one of America’s most consequential and controversial sc...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/07/19/oppenheimer_the_man_behind_the_movie_967210.html
RealClearDefense contributor John Waters speaks with Wall Street Journal National Security reporter Brett Forrest about his new bestselling book, "Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the ...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/07/01/fbis_secret_wars_in_russia_963458.html
Did the Cold War really end? As recently as this week, the New York Times confirmed that in 2020 Russian intelligence attempted to assassinate a defector on US soil, crossing a major red line eve...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/06/23/100_years_of_east-west_espionage_942811.html
On today's "Hot Wash," we talk to the authors of a new book, “Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behind.” It is the story of how the wives of Prisoners of War and those...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/06/16/the_women_behind_the_powmia_movement_941362.html
On today's "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters talks to the authors of one the site's most popular recent articles, “The Navy SEAL Who Went to Ukraine Because He Couldn’t Stop Fighting.�...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/06/10/navy_seal_who_couldnt_stop_fighting_939896.html
In this episode of the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters speaks with Stephen Young the author of a new book from RealClearPublishing, “Kissinger’s Betrayal: How...
In this episode of "Hot Wash" host John Sorensen speaks with authors and national security experts Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker about their new book, “Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/05/22/ai_and_the_age_of_danger_900998.html
On today's episode, host John Sorensen speaks with Jean Lee, a veteran journalist and Korea expert. She was the Associated Press Bureau Chief for the Korean Peninsula from 2008 to 2013. In 2011, ...
On this episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” RCD contributor John Waters speaks with William Swanson, a Marine Corps veteran of the battle of Guadalcanal in World War II’s Pa...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2023/01/28/surviving_guadalcanal_and_iwo_jima_878397.html
On this episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” host John Sorensen and RCD contributor John Waters speak with the author of one of the most popular articles on RealClearDefense th...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2022/12/23/why_america_loses_wars_872051.html
Sergeant Major (Ret.) William Skiles with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, and a native of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., speaks about the 10 year anniversary of the Fallujah held at Camp Horno,...
On this episode of "Hot Wash" we look at the US military’s peer adversaries from a “Free Markets” perspective. Are defense budgets bloated by threat inflation? RCD contributor John Waters a...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2022/12/10/get_real_on_economic_warfare_869529.html
What does the history of Russia's post-Soviet wars tell us about the current conflict? Is Putin really playing 3-dimensional chess? Or has he blundered into a disaster of his own making, victim o...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2022/12/02/putins_war_from_chechnya_to_ukraine_868126.html
On today’s episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” host John Sorensen, and RCD contributor John Waters speak with journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling about his new book, �...
Sergeant Bill Bee is the Marine infantry rifleman in one of the defining images of the War in Afghanistan. Captured in Helmund Province in 2008 by Reuters Photographer Goran Tomašević in a phot...
On the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", host John Sorensen and RCD Contributor John Waters speak with Stephanie Savell, the Co-Director of the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute for...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2022/10/20/what_are_the_costs_of_war_860372.html
In 2006, Kander served as a military intelligence officer in Afghanistan for the Army Reserve. After returning to civilian life, Kander entered politics serving in his home state of Missouri’s ...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2022/10/12/jason_kanders_invisible_storm_858802.html
On today's RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen and RCD Editor David Craig, talk with Jamie Roberts, the director of a new documentary on HBO/Max "Escape From Kabul" about th...
https://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2022/10/07/escape_from_kabul_857960.html