This article comes from AsiaTimes.com. “Despite Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s best efforts to reduce strategic dependence on the United States, China’s moves in the South China Sea have forced the populist leader to re-embrace his nation’s longtime treaty ally. If anything, China’s strategic opportunism in adjacent waters, launched coincident with the death, destruction and distraction caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, has triggered a reboot in the Philippine-US alliance. That’s been...

This article comes from Military.com. “Two naval aviators were killed this week when their civilian single-engine aircraft crashed in Alabama. Capt. Vincent Segars, the head of Naval Aviation Schools Command, and Cmdr. Joshua Fuller died Wednesday when their Piper PA-32 crashed about 12 miles outside of Selma, said Cmdr. James Stockman, a spokesman for Naval Education and Training Command. Segars and Fuller were the only two aboard the plane, he added.” Click here to read the rest of...

This article is from Military.com. “In its second attempt, the U.S. Army plans to award a contract this month for an unmanned ground vehicle designed to carry ammunition, water and other combat necessities in an effort to lighten the load grunts carry into battle. The Army initially awarded a $162 million contract to General Dynamics Land Systems in November to produce the service’s Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (S-MET), only to have a competitor protest lead to the cancellation...

This article is from Military.com. “The U.S. Air Force will pit a drone against a fighter jet in an aerial combat demonstration next year. It’s just one example of how the service is gunning to change the character of warfare, top officials say. Last week, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, head of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, revealed that the Air Force Research Lab is working on an “autonomous system to go up against a human, manned system in some sort of air-to-air”...