President Donald Trump on July 15 downplayed the possibility of sending Ukraine long-range weapons as Kyiv awaits an injection of U.S. weaponry that it hopes will help it beat back an intensifying Russian air offensive.
Ukraine could secure victory over Russia if international partners supply Kyiv with additional air defense systems and end resistance to long range strikes inside Russian territory, according to a senior Ukrainian military official.
The Trump administration is pulling half of the California National Guard members it deployed to Los Angeles in a major rollback of President Donald Trump's militarized response to protests in Southern California over immigration arrests and raids.
Airmen who defuse and dispose of bombs in combat will now have a gender-neutral fitness test starting next month, marking the second career field in the service to have a job-specific physical standard.
The Pentagon announced July 14 it has chosen Google, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI to help the U.S. military expand its use of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities.
Lockheed Martin has delivered all of the F-35 fighter jets that were stored in long-term parking at its facilities in Texas after software problems held up deliveries of the jet for a year. The Pentagon stopped accepting deliveries of the jet in July 2023 due to delays with an upgrade package, called Tech Refresh-3, but the company did not stop building them, resulting in 72 jets stacking up at Lockheed facilities during the year-long pause. Until now, the Pentagon has declined to say how many jets were affected.
Cyber officials are working to strategically integrate defensive, offensive, and information operations as part of a broader campaign to enhance U.S. Transportation Command’s capacity to detect and respond to contemporary digital threats.
France plans to speed up its defense spending and will now hit a planned defense budget of €64 billion ($74.8 billion) by 2027, instead of 2030, President Emmanuel Macron has announced. Macron specified that the 2026 budget, which had been planned at €57.5 billion, would be boosted by an extra €3.5 billion before the big €64 billion spend takes place in 2027, three years earlier than had been planned.
Lawmakers are hoping to put the brakes on a Defense Department initiative moving toward privatizing retail programs on military bases, such as commissaries, exchanges, and other retail outlets.
Nicole Malachowski made her name as the first woman to fly for the Air Force Thunderbirds, the service’s elite flying demonstration team who perform at airshows around the country. She also flew over 180 hours in combat, instructed F-15 pilots, and served as a military aide to former First Lady Michelle Obama. All of that came to a screeching halt in 2013 when her body was overrun, almost overnight, by chronic pain, leaving her fighting for her career and her life.
