President Trump said March 1 the U.S. military destroyed nine Iranian warships and is in the process of destroying the rest of Iran's navy. The U.S. strikes target Iran's ability to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply flows.
Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran unless the administration wins their approval for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign that risks pulling the United States into a deeper Middle East conflict.
When the U.S. military’s top general laid out the risks to President Trump of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpile of munitions. Now that is being put to the test, as the U.S. races to destroy Iran’s missile and drone force before it runs out of interceptors to fend off Tehran’s retaliation, current and former officials and analysts say.
Overnight, robot-vs.-robot warfare spread from Europe to the Red Sea. The U.S.-made LUCAS, a low-cost attack drone modeled on the Iranian Shahed-136, made its combat debut in Feb. 28’s strikes on Iran, and drew a wave of Shahed attacks in return.
President Donald Trump launched Feb. 28’s wide-ranging attack on Iran after a weekslong lobbying effort by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East—Israel and Saudi Arabia—according to four people familiar with the matter, as Israeli and U.S. forces teamed to topple Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after nearly four decades in power.
Shortly before the United States and Israel were poised to launch an attack on Iran, the CIA zeroed in on the location of perhaps the most important target: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader.
he U.S. military has employed new Precision Strike Missile short-range ballistic missiles as part of ongoing operations against Iran. This looks to be the first combat use of the PrSM, which only began entering service roughly two years ago.
The opening of Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israel operation to topple Iran’s government, has been defined by surprise kinetic strikes and Iran’s retaliation to its neighbors. But underneath the visible attacks, there may have been invisible strikes brought about through cyber operations.
Join Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence team to for their key takeaways from the Warfare Symposium, which just took place last week in Denver. Charles, Jen, and Kyle also discuss the biggest takeaways from the panels they moderated. These are the behind-the-scenes observations and the conversations you didn’t hear on stage.
As Tehran was being pounded by U.S. and Israeli bombs on Saturday morning, its top diplomat dialed Moscow’s number. On the other end of the line, according to an official Russian statement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered his Iranian counterpart sympathy and promised his—verbal—support. Iran, thus, became the latest country after Syria and Venezuela to feel firsthand what partnership with Russia does, and doesn’t, mean.
President Trump ordered the U.S. government to stop using the artificial intelligence company Anthropic's products and the Pentagon moved to designate the company a national security risk on Feb. 27, in a sharp escalation of a high-stakes fight over the military's use of AI. Hours after the president's announcement, rival company OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Defense Department to provide its own AI technology for classified networks.
“AI is poised to be the most transformative technology of our generation, perhaps of any generation, and we need to ensure the government and the private enterprises that develop these technologies have a constructive and mutually beneficial relationship consistent with American values,” writes former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions—tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft—is increasingly drawing on commercial data and artificial intelligence.
In a bid to diversify wireless communications innovation, the Defense Department is poised to release an open-source software stack that users from the military and commercial industry can use to develop their own custom network solutions.
The Air Force says a new policy will streamline access to health care for reservists and Air National Guardsmen who are hurt on duty. But Airmen and veterans with firsthand experience say the new policy does little to address the actual roadblocks that many encounter trying to collect health care and longer-term benefits.
