Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare

The latest news and analysis on land warfare, from Breaking Defense._____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

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Army: We Can't Meet Joint Needs With Smaller Budget Recent gains in readiness and modernization are fragile, Army leaders warned, and budget cuts would undermine the service's ability to help the Joint Force.

Top Priority: Marines Want New Loitering Drones The drones would be part of a new multi-domain Mobile Reconnaissance unit that includes unmanned ships and new ground vehicles

OMFV: Army's Bradley Replacement Faces Hill, DoD Skeptics Industry is excited about the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. Congress and the Biden Administration are a harder sell.

Army Fields First Anti-Aircraft Strykers In Just 3 Years The threat of Russian drones, helicopters, and attack jets drove the first fielding to a unit in Germany, but the 8×8 Stryker variant may well find its way to the Pacific as well.

Artificial Intelligence, Lawyers And Laws Of War In Afghanistan and Iraq, a military lawyer was always at the table for strike decisions, said the chief of Army Futures Command. In future wars, there may not be time to go around the table.

Electric Battlefield: Army Awards $600K For R&D Six small companies got $100,000 awards to do an eight-week sprint on ways to move the Army to electric power. Meanwhile, an academic study denounced the Army's plan for mobile nuclear reactors.

JLTV: Upstart GM Defense Takes On Incumbent Oshkosh Oshkosh designed and builds the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, but next year the Army will reopen the competition to all comers. The most vocal challenger: upstart GM Defense.

Afghanistan: The Long, Painful Retreat "I think the countries to the north of Afghanistan such as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are also going to be worried about the flows of refugees and perhaps fighters to the north. All of them will see what happens after we leave, how the United States postures itself, and then they'll decide what to do," Gen. McKenzie said this week.

JLTV: GM Defense's Uphill Battle Vs. Oshkosh Oshkosh, the incumbent, makes military trucks by the thousand. GM Defense, the upstart, has little recent military experience — but is backed by one of the world's biggest auto companies.

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