Taiwan has grown accustomed to a near daily drumbeat of Chinese military planes flying close by, part of Beijing’s campaign to pressure the island it claims as its own. But lately, Taiwan has been facing an unexpected puzzle: Where have the planes gone?
President Trump—faced with rising oil prices and pushback from his MAGA base—is signaling that he wants to wind down the war he launched against Iran less than two weeks ago. But stopping the fighting carries big risks, even if Iran lets him.
Ukraine warned allied governments for years to prepare for a new kind of war, one in which cheap, mass-produced drones would overwhelm both the tactics and economics of traditional air defense.
Some of Ukraine’s best-known drone military commanders and experts will be visiting Washington later this month to brief policymakers and defense leaders on the rapidly evolving landscape of modern drone warfare.
“Air denial has its place. It can serve as an effective defensive approach for nations whose primary objective is survival or cost imposition. ... Ukraine, for instance, serves as a prime example of how air denial is vital to survival against an enemy with a superior air capability. But the United States is not a regional power seeking only to blunt an attack. It is a global power whose strategy depends on projecting force, achieving desired strategic and operational effects, and sustaining operations across distance,” writes Lt. Col. Grant “SWAT” Georgulis, a Master Air Battle Manager and the Deputy Chief of C2 Inspections at U.S. Northern Command’s Inspector General team.
Artificial intelligence tools have helped the U.S. military fight faster and smarter during Operation Epic Fury, according to the commander overseeing the war effort.
British Armed Forces assets continue to flow into Cyprus, as the United Kingdom bolsters its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean in response to the war in the Middle East. While the British government has not taken part in direct military action against targets within Iran, the expanding conflict has also put Cyprus under direct threat.
The U.S. Air Force’s opposition to buying additional Boeing E-7A Wedgetails has not changed despite a solicitation released on March 10 for a business case analysis of possible sustainment options for a fleet of up to 26 aircraft.
An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe than has previously been revealed, with dozens suffering injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, multiple sources told CBS News. At least one may require the amputation of a limb.
The war with Iran is sucking up expensive U.S. air defense munitions that Ukraine desperately needs, putting future deliveries at risk and threatening Kyiv’s ability to counter Russian ballistic missile attacks.
The Iranian elementary school building where scores of children were killed as the U.S. and Israel began their massive aerial campaign was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site, multiple people familiar with the strike told The Washington Post.
“Over the past year, American airpower has conducted three complex integrated missions involving fighters, bombers, refuelers, intelligence, and cyber forces: Operation Midnight Hammer in Iran, Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela and Operation Epic Fury, currently unfolding, once again, in Iran. No other military on earth could have executed these missions at similar scale or with comparable precision. And yet the uncomfortable truth is that our system should be blinking red. We are achieving extraordinary results, but our force and fleet are wearing out faster than they are being replaced,” writes Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), a retired Air Force colonel.
Military leaders cut the ribbon March 11 on the first completed military construction project for the Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program at F.E. Warren Air Force Base.
On March 11, 1944, anti-aircraft fire struck a B-24D Liberator bomber, causing to crash off Papua New Guinea. Eleven Airmen, including 2nd Lt. Thomas Kelly Jr., were on board the Heaven Can Wait. After an extensive search couldn’t locate their remains, the American Graves Registration Service deemed them unrecoverable in 1950. It is likely they would have remained so, if not for the dogged persistence of Kelly’s family.
