Military

[New] UK forces' morale is down, and satisfaction in service has fallen by 15 percentage points in 10 years, with one in four military personnel now saying they plan to quit before the end of their contract.
[New] Iran has the capability to increase its stockpile of enriched uranium to the point where it could have sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon by the end of the year.
[New] South Korea is to invest more than $250 billion in missile defense systems and new submarines to help deter North Korea military threats.
In the coming years, China hopes to have mastered national defense big data sufficiently to control or even dominate the informationized warfare environment against great powers.
China's People's Liberation Army has already surpassed the U.S. in missile development and its number of warships and air defense systems under the Chinese Communist Party's plan to achieve dominance by 2049.
The US Department of Defense has always used the annual report on China's military development to persuade US Congress to authorize a greater defense budget, so it will continue to misinterpret China's strategic intention to make its demand appear more reasonable.
As South Korea looks to improve its indigenous intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities against North Korea in the coming years, military surveillance satellites will come to play a more important role in South Korean military planning.
The Vulcan Centaur will replace the Delta 4 and the Atlas 5 - ULA's other rocket family - to haul U.S. military payloads, NASA science probes, and commercial satellites into space.
Australia has announced a major shift in its defense strategy to challenge China's threat in the Indo-Pacific, with US$ 185 billion newly budgeted for long-range missiles, satellite surveillance and other counter-measures.
Government initiatives in China and India that encourage developments in AR/VR for defense and manufacturing sectors are expected to supplement the growth in the Asia-Pacific regions.
The US is shifting its military from Europe to face Chinese threat to India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the South China Sea adding that he would open a dialogue with the European Union on China and voiced hope it would lead to tougher action.
In the next two years, the U.S. military expects to give soldiers in ground vehicles their own lasers that can shoot down missiles, demonstrate that sailors can knock down ICBMs with missiles fired from surface ships, and stand up two new counter-Russian missile defense sites in Eastern Europe.
Sweden, which spent 2.5% of GDP on defense in 1990, will only spend 1.25% of GDP in 2020, rising to 1.5% by 2025: Sweden's changing defense posture is exemplified by its air force, army, and naval commands recently moving from Stockholm to more remote spread - out locations.
The United States will slash its military presence in Germany by 11,900 troops in what the Pentagon called a strategic repositioning, but President Donald Trump said was to punish Berlin for its weak defense spending.
As China's economic and military power continues to rise, it will be more and more difficult for the United States to prevail in a confrontation thousands of miles away from the American homeland but in Beijing's immediate neighborhood.
The Missile Defense Agency will receive USD 10.4 billion, including USD 108 million for the creation of a space sensor system to track hypersonic and ballistic missiles and the development of a sensor array to counteract the hypersonic missile systems of Russia and China.
On Monday, the Trump administration announced plans to auction off 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum dedicated initially to military purposes for commercial use starting in mid-2022 to fuel 5G network deployment in the United States.
Six years ago Germany joined other NATO members in promising to spend 2% of GDP on the military by 2024.
Australia has in recent years awoken to the threat of Chinese interference in its domestic politics, updating its defense strategy and force structure plan in 2020 to reflect growing concerns about China.
One Chinese suspicion is whether Washington is using the North Korean nuclear threat as an excuse to build a missile defense system that is actually designed to protect the United States from China's long-range missiles.
India fears that China's investment in South Asian ports not only serves its commercial interests, but also facilitates China's military goals.

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Last updated: 24 September 2020