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• Let's talk about the next US-Israel military-assistance agreement

  01-02-2025 00:24 via defenseone.com
  
  When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Trump at the White House this week, the two leaders should announce the launch of negotiations on the next U.S.-Israel military-assistance Memorandum of Understanding. Of course, other pressing issues will also occupy their attention: cementing the ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, securing the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, a potential Israeli-Saudi normalization deal, and the Iranian nuclear program. But getting
  
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• Army aviation was having a bad few years—even before Wednesday’s crash

  01-02-2025 00:07 via defenseone.com
  
  The deadly Jan. 29 helicopter crash outside Washington, D.C., was the Army’s first serious aviation incident in months—but it came on the heels of a fiscal year that saw the service’s highest rate of serious crashes in over a decade.Army aviation saw 17 class-A mishaps—that is, accidents that killed someone or caused more than $2.5 million in damage—during fiscal 2024, which ran from October 2023 through September. Thirteen of them have taken place since last Januar
  
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• Global Snapshot: The Middle East and North Africa Defense Environment

  01-02-2025 00:00 via defenseone.com
  The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) collectively spent $220.6 billion on defense in 2024, amounting to about 9.5 percent of the global total for the year. Nearly all states in the MENA region that publish their annual defense spending data increased their budget year-on-year from 2023, expanding at an average rate of 15.6 percent -- the fastest rate in the world, even above that of Europe.Underpinning the strong growth in MENA defense spending is a challenging security environment, heavily d
  
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