U.S. President Donald Trump on Nov. 1 said he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country.
The Ukrainian drone zeroed in on the two Russian soldiers riding a motorcycle just after 9 a.m. on July 19, closer and closer, until it swooped down to hit its mark and the camera went dark. It was a high-value target for the drone operator’s regiment: worth as many as 24 points, to be exact. In a real-world game run by the Ukrainian government, regiments are being rewarded with points for successful attacks.
SpaceX is set to receive $2 billion to develop satellites that can track missiles and aircraft under President Trump’s Golden Dome project, people familiar with the matter said.
President Trump said that Chinese President Xi Jinping knows “the consequences” of military action in Taiwan, but he declined to expand on his plan if China were to invade the island, telling correspondent Norah O'Donnell: “I can’t give away my secrets.”
National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C. will remain in the nation’s capital for another four months. The Trump administration extended the orders for the mission through at least February 2026.
Three people were killed in another U.S. military airstrike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in a social media post. In a post on X Nov. 1, Hegseth said that the vessel was "known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics."
The government has been shut down for a month, but for the most part, the CEOs of some of America’s top defense companies say they’re not seeing a financial impact to their business—not yet, that is.
While warfare might be made up of a conglomeration of trends and capabilities, the most important trend right now is networking, according to top commanders in the Indo-Pacific region.
No single technology can win every battle and fix every problem, the leader of Special Operations Command Pacific said this week. Instead, the “ability to integrate multiple systems, disparate systems, with more open architecture—that is eventually going to win. If you have that sort of single, standalone technology…it’s likely to be cracked, hacked, and eventually overcome.”
The Air Force told lawmakers it needs a fighter fleet of 1,558 manned, combat-coded fighters to carry out and sustain operations at a low risk, nearly 300 more than it has now. ... An Air Force official, during a conversation with reporters Oct. 30, acknowledged this is an aspirational plan that it couldn’t achieve without a significant budget boost.
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 30 as Air Force chief of staff, will confront major modernization and readiness hurdles after taking charge as the service’s top officer.
From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters, and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet paratroopers ever landed in Anchorage or Fairbanks. The program remained classified for more than 50 years until documents were declassified in 2014, uncovering one of the Cold War's most unusual operations.
