Congress should play a leading a role in steering the United States toward a strategically prudent and responsible missile defense policy one that maximizes U.S. national security interests while averting an unnecessary nuclear arms race at a time when conventional challenges loom large.
1. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
Force Design 2030 (Washington DC: March 2020).
2. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
The 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Commandant’s Planning Guidance (Washington, DC: 16 July 2019).
3. Department of the Navy,
Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power (Washington, DC: December 2020).
4. Megan Eckstein, “Marines Testing Regiment at Heart of Emerging Island-Hopping Future,”
USNI News, 4 June 2020.
5. See, for example: Dakota Wood, “The Marines: To Boldly Go Where the Corps Has Gone Before,”
The Washington Times, 24 June 2020; Frank G. Hoffman, “Still First to Fight?: Shaping the 21st Century Marine Corps,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2020; Mark Cancian, “The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China,” Center for Strategic International Studies, 25 March 2020; and William S. Lind, “The View from Olympus: Did the Marine Corps Just Commit Suicide?”
US Army’s Precision Strike Missile breaks range record 2 hours ago Lockheed Martin s PrSM missile was tested for a third time at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on April 30, 2020. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile ranged 400 kilometers roughly 250 miles in a test shot at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on May 12, Lockheed Martin announced. The test marks the farthest the PrSM has flown so far, which is roughly the distance between New York City and Rochester, New York. “We had impressive performance flying more than 400 kilometers in its longest range flown to date at the White Sands Missile Range,” Gaylia Campbell, Lockheed vice president of precision fires and combat maneuver systems, told a group of reporters directly following the test. ”PrSM was fired from a [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] launcher and it flew with the expected precision to the target area where it once again demonstrated a hi
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Our Defense News colleague Jen Judson reports that a little-known Michigan-based firm, Mettle Ops, has also entered.
For starters, what the competitors submitted on April 15
th was not working prototypes, or even complete designs, but broad “concepts” for how they would approach the complex trade-offs required to build the new combat vehicle. Up to five teams will win concept-development contracts, the Army has said. Then, in 2023, the service will pick up to three teams to finalize their designs and build full-up prototypes, with a final winner emerging in 2027 and the vehicle becoming operational in 2029.
JLTV on the Oshkosh production line.