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A To-Do List for the Next Marine Corps Commandant

Saving the Marine Corps may require dismantling the signature reform of the last decade

Defense Watchdog Will Probe U.S. Attacks on Boats in the Caribbean

Marines Test Fieldranger Remotely Controlled Weapon Station

American Rheinmetall conducted a week-long Fieldranger RCWS training course for Marine Corps Warfighting Lab operators…

Pragmatic Solutions for Golden Dome Command & Control

Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough

U.S. Navy Tests Armed TSUNAMI Uncrewed Surface Vessels

Textron Systems will deliver multiple TSUNAMI uncrewed surface vessels to U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Navy Fourth…

Lewis B. Puller and the Mine Warfare Mission at the Strait of Hormuz

USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3) embodies a straightforward but strategically important proposition: if you want to keep…

Is the DDG(X) Program Is a Dead Program Walking?

...dead or in a medically induced coma?

Navy, Marine Corps Back Longer Amphib Readiness Cycles, More Ships

The Navy currently utilizes a 36-month Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP), but leaders want to stretch it to 56 months

Navy Transforming How it Arms Fleet Amid Stockpile Concerns

The service is on a mission to replenish its supply in more affordable and more timely ways amid looming threats of…

AFSOC Unveils Rapid Deployment Capability for OA-1K

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has expanded the scope of its Skyraider II close air support aircraft to…

AC-130J Gunship With Mini Cruise Missiles Paired With AESA Radar

The plan is to demonstrate a fully integrated, longer-range strike capability that could keep the AC-130 relevant in…

What the Pentagon Didn't Say About a Deadly Crash

UK Prepares Funding Boost for Stealth Jet Program

Pentagon Begins Sweeping Review of Military Legal System

Belarus Launches Drills Involving Russian Nuclear Weapons

U.S. Pauses Joint Defense Effort with Canada Dating to WWII

Yes, Trump Might Really Attack Cuba

Air Force Has 18 New Skyraider II 'Swiss Army Knife' Planes

Eagles Overhead

The History of U.S. Air Force Forward Air Controllers from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul

Canada Can't Choose Its Way Out of Geography

Prime Minister Mark Carney presents a theory on Canada's global position, advocating for middle powers to collaborate…

It's Time the United States Put the 'Pivot to Asia' Behind

The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly halt the U.S. rotational deployment to Poland not only caught Warsaw…

U.S. and Japan Partnership Is Vital to National Security

Japan is proactively countering the strategic threat posed by China to both itself and its closest regional allies…

Constructive Engagement: Are We Going to Do This Again?

Behind the conciliatory rhetoric in China lies a potential effort to reshape the global balance of power in America’s…

Origins of the Cold War 1941–1949

Who Started the Cold War?

More than a Buzzword: Redefining Lethality for Modern War

For too long, the concept of lethality has been narrowly defined by technical specifications and quantitative metrics

Scaling Patriot Production: The Industrial Base Crisis Explained

The Pentagon’s use of emergency authorities to accelerate arms sales is not a sign of strength; it is a confession of…

VMI's Single Sanction Honor System – Not Ordinary

The FY27 NDAA: Codifying Decision Disruption & Narrative Persistence

For decades, the American strategic posture has withered within a “Stability Gap”

The Pentagon's Classified AI Push

The agency announced agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and…

Node Wrangler? Which Part of the Joint Kill Chain?

One U.S. Marine Corps unit has earned a significant honor, designation as a SOC qualified Special Purpose MAGTF

SOCOM Wants To Move Fast on New Tech

U.S. Special Operations Command’s strategy for fielding new technology to special operators emphasizes speed, a top…

Marine Commandant Acknowledges Indo-Pacific Gap

The Marine Corps has left a gap “unfilled” in the Indo-Pacific by moving an expeditionary unit from Okinawa to the…

Army Seeks 'Cheap' Patriot Interceptor

The Army knows it needs a more affordable and producible Patriot option as enemies seek overmatch through cheap drones…

U.S. Army's New Night Vision Goggles

Elbit America, L3Harris, and Photonis will each build their own BiNOD version, aiming to improve depth perception,…

Army Awards Contract for RangeHawk Hypersonic Missile Testing Drone

Northrop Grumman has secured a $325.5 million U.S. Army contract to develop the RangeHawk high-altitude uncrewed…

Multiyear Buys for F-35, F-15EX?

Sen. Budd hopeful airpower bills added to NDAA

Navy Carrier Completes Longest Deployment Since Vietnam

Cuba Accuses U.S. of Building 'Fraudulent Case' for Military Action

Taiwan Urges Trump to Stay the Course on Weapons Sales

Marines Practice Seizing Remote Islands in Philippine Exercise

Russian Army Busted Through Sanctions with German Front

U.S., Nigeria Carry Out Fresh Strikes on Islamic State Group

Israel Built Two Military Bases in Iraq Before War on Iran

U.S. Air Force Refines F-22 and F-35 Stealth Fighter Combat Tactics

The U.S. Air Force is intensifying preparations for high-end air warfare by integrating F-22 Raptors, F-35A Lightning…

USS Ford CSG Earns Presidential Unit Citation After Historic Cruise

America’s newest commissioned aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) tied up at Pier 11 this morning after 326…

Air Force Underestimating Aircraft Maintenance Delays

The U.S. Air Force is underestimating the lengths maintenance delays at its aircraft maintenance depots

Army Orders 3,000 Container-Launched Barracuda-500M Cruise Missiles

Anduril will provide the U.S. Army with a minimum of 3,000 Surface-Launched Barracuda-500M, starting in 2027 with the…

Army's Autonomy Office Looks to 'Packages of Capability'

Earlier this year, the Army stood up the Capability Program Executive Office for Mission Autonomy (CPE Mission…

Hegseth Calls for Sweeping Review of Pentagon's Legal System

It’s the secretary's latest unusual move toward DoD’s military and civilian lawyers

The Growing Gap Between SOF Missions and SOF Resources

. . . USSOCOM now accounts for just above 1% of the total Department of War Budget, while global demand for SOF has…