Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Nov. 10 announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the U.S. about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is keen on ordering more than two dozen Raytheon-produced Patriot air defense systems, amid Kyiv’s attempts to fend off Russia’s aerial bombardment.
The Pentagon’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, and its strike group arrived in the Latin American region on Nov. 11, according to the U.S. Navy, as the Trump administration beefs up its military presence in the U.S. Southern Command area and strikes alleged drug-trafficking boats on both sides of South America.
The Space Development Agency’s plan to award new contracts this month for its next set of missile warning/missile tracking satellites is in limbo, having fallen victim to the Pentagon’s wave of fiscal 2025 budget “clawbacks” being used to pay troops during the ongoing government shutdown, according to government and industry sources.
A month after the emergence of satellite imagery that showed GJ-11 stealthy flying-wing uncrewed combat air vehicles in at least a semi-operational state, China has released the first air-to-air video of the drone—and, as far as we know, the first official imagery of any kind showing the real aircraft.
As of Nov. 12, the government will have been shut down for about 13 percent of the fiscal year. At a time when the Pentagon is “laser-focused” on lethality, the department is hemorrhaging readiness, with training and maintenance hours lost due to lack of funding. Even as the House prepares to vote on a Senate continuing resolution to at least get some money flowing again, the services are looking at a long road to recovery.
Current and former military officers are warning that adversaries are likely to exploit a natural flaw in artificial intelligence chatbots to inject instructions for stealing files, distorting public opinion or otherwise betraying trusted users.
An amendment to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement went into effect Nov. 10, officially mandating that all Defense Department solicitations and contracts include requirements for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0.
A group of transgender service members, who served up to 18 years in the Air Force, are suing the military for depriving them of their retirement benefits after the Trump administration booted all transgender troops from the military's ranks.
‘Twas about two months before Christmas, when all through the base, privatized housing residents got a message that their Yuletide decorations were out of place. The message, which was sent to troops and their families assigned to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, was posted earlier this week on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page.
