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A Conversation with Rep. Don Bacon

One of the biggest proponents in Congress to recapitalize the Air National Guard fighter fleet is a retired Air Force brigadier general...Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. Read More Details

Box of Change

Soldiers refer to the sprawling maneuver area at the Joint Readiness Training Center here as “the Box.” Visiting infantry brigade combat teams spend two weeks in its swampy pine forest confines undergoing the most realistic combat training the Army... Read More Details

Net Positive

Critical to the success of the Army of 2030 is modernization of the network and its ability to rapidly and securely deliver data to the point of need. Through materiel solutions and embedding cybersecurity across enclaves, Army network modernization... Read More Details

Big Guns Are Back

The king of battle is looking to retake its throne. After years of taking a backseat to counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. Army artillery is undergoing a renaissance of sorts as part of a new defense strategy focused on great... Read More Details

Writing the Book on Urban Warfare

Combat in a city is a soldier’s worst nightmare — fighting block to block, building to building and sometimes even room to room, with grave danger potentially around every corner, from above and below. Digital Version But operations on urban terrain... Read More Details

A Conversation with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., never served in the National Guard, but she does have some meaningful history with the organization. Read More Details

Ticking Clock

Space isn't just the final frontier anymore — it’s critical to everyday life for tens of millions of Americans. Commerce and communications rely on satellites in space. So does GPS, which is in tens of millions of mobile devices and vehicle... Read More Details

Hollow Numbers

Congress has only started deliberating fiscal 2023 defense policy and appropriations legislation, but one thing is already clear: Lawmakers will almost certainly add billions, perhaps tens of billions of dollars, to the president’s budget request... Read More Details

AI & Domestic Response

Advancing technology will likely become a critical tool in the way the National Guard responds to disaster. Read More Details

Headliners on the World Stage

My career as an Illinois Air National Guard C-130 Hercules pilot has taken me around the world supporting many of the major operations and exercises of the last two decades. I’ve worked with members of many of our allies and partners. I thought I had... Read More Details