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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What's In A Name? Billions In Cuts Depend On Defining 'Legacy' As defense budgets face post-COVID cuts, everyone wants to axe "legacy" systems. But the services define "legacy" very differently from defense reformers.

Trophy VPS For Stryker: Half The Weight, All The Protection? Israeli manufacturer Rafael claims it's worked with the Army to get the weight of the anti-missile system down below a ton – and it'll still protect the lightly armored Stryker as effectively as the full-size system protects the massive M1 Abrams.

Frontline Geek Squads: SOCOM's Secret Weapon Deploying data scientists alongside special ops troops lets them solve intelligence-sharing problems "in minutes or hours," said Special Operations Command's first-ever CTO.

Israelis Push New Missile For Patriot Launchers: SkyCeptor Patriot missiles are expensive. Rafael and its US partner Raytheon say they can fire the cheaper Israeli SkyCeptor from existing Patriot launchers. Will that tempt the US Army?

Senate Armed Services Stands By Afghanistan & Taiwan "Seems Washington wants to stick around" in Afghanistan, said AEI's MacKenzie Eaglen, "even if veterans themselves are increasingly the ones calling for the full end of troop presence in-country."

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