Tag: Pentagon
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Space Command general tells lawmakers Alabama lacks communications capabilities he needs
U.S. Space Command’s top general admitted to a congressional committee that an expensive secure communications network to connect the headquarters to the Pentagon and other installations would have to be built if it moves from Colorado to Huntsville, Ala. While backing the planned move, Space Command’s Gen. James Dickinson, under furious questioning from Colorado Springs…
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Analysis: Readiness report offers troubling assessment as military spending shrinks | Tom Roeder
America is ready to fight on the ground, but a report from the Government Accountability Office this month offers a worrying assessment of the military’s preparedness everywhere else. The report found that “mission readiness” dropped from 2017 to 2019 for air, sea, cyber and space forces. Why that readiness went down isn’t clear in the…
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Colorado Springs mayor, others urge Pentagon to reverse Space Command decision
Local leaders including Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers inked a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging him to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, overturning a January Trump administration decision to uproot it and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama. Decrying the Alabama move as too costly and motivated by politics, Suthers was…
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Analysis: Biden could face test if battle erupts for Taiwan | Tom Roeder
The White House and the Pentagon have unveiled an early look at the Biden administration’s national security policy and two items top the list: growing alliances and countering China. The first reverses course from the Trump administration, which backed away from many partnerships with its “America First” policy. Instead, President Joe Biden wants to make…
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Colorado Springs Mayor Suthers: Air Force’s Space Command decision ‘absolutely comical’
A document created by the Pentagon to justify its decision to strip Colorado Springs of U.S. Space Command and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama has caused even more consternation among local leaders who say it proves the process was flawed and politics may have played a role. The Air Force found Colorado lacking in…
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Lamborn calls for probe of Space Command move
Alleging improprieties on a Trump administration decision to strip U.S. Space Command away from Colorado Springs and move its troops to Alabama, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn on Tuesday asked the Government Accountability Office to open an investigation. Lamborn, of Colorado Springs, cited political pressure exerted on Air Force leaders to locate the command in Huntsville,…
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Democrats add heft to effort to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs
With U.S. Space Command in the balance, a lawmaker perennially voted as the most conservative member of Congress is turning left for help. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn isn’t switching parties, but the decision in the final days of the Trump administration to move the command and its 1,400 troops to Alabama has been compounded by…
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Stability for United States Space Command
I was the last commander of the original United States Space Command. In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld decided to disestablish USSPACECOM and to distribute its missions to United States Strategic Command in October, 2002. History has shown it was a mistake to…
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Pentagon issues new plan for electronic wars of future | Tom Roeder
The Pentagon has issued a new strategy that looks to software, artificial intelligence and faster 5G networks to win future wars. The military over the past 20 years has learned a new way of elect ronic-enabled warfare that allows better targeting of enemies through high-tech intelligence methods and networks that can quickly connect units in…