The U.S. military announced July 23 that it is conducting the 13th night of strikes against Iran as clashes escalate over shipping routes. Earlier Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, potentially widening the Iran war as international oil topped $100 a barrel.
Russian businesses have been feeling the effects of the war in Ukraine through tax increases, rising costs caused by fuel shortages, and supply chains disrupted by sanctions. Now, there is another risk to contend with: Ukrainian drone strikes on their facilities.
Iran has quickly rebuilt infrastructure damaged during the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign over recent months, from missile bases nestled deep inside mountains to bridges, ports and production facilities, according to Israeli and Western officials and a review of satellite imagery.
Amidst industry concerns that a new executive order on critical minerals has an unrealistic timeframe, a key Pentagon official is saying the department is prepared to work with companies—as long as they are making a good-faith effort to comply with the order.
“Every few months, as reliably as bad weather, another commentator announces that ‘aerial bombing alone cannot win a war’—as though this were a profound strategic revelation,” writes retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
A Ukrainian F-16 shot down a Russian fighter jet for the first time since the American-designed planes arrived on the battlefield in 2024, the top-ranking U.S. general told Congress on July 21, emphasizing the impressive progress of Kyiv’s air defense forces in shielding the country’s skies.
Saudi Arabia would need to normalize relations with Israel to receive the U.S. nuclear technology it has long sought, President Donald Trump said July 23, adding a new and potentially deal-ending stipulation to an agreement signed just a day earlier.
The Pentagon on July 23 announced a contract with Oracle worth almost $7 billion over a decade, a big win for the software maker, which has been punished by investors this year. ... The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community, and the Coast Guard, according to a statement.
“Russia’s persistent nuclear modernization and China’s accelerating strategic buildup together create a complex and fraught environment that existing policy assumptions have not confronted. Into this environment arrives the B-21 Raider and its associated family of systems, platforms with potentially revolutionary conventional and nuclear capabilities that offer planners new tools for horizontal escalation, precision strikes across contested geographies, and the kind of flexible, survivable conventional dominance that previous bomber generations could not reliably provide. And yet the institutional logic governing how the United States employs its bomber force may prevent the B-21 from being used to its full potential,” write RAAF Air Commodore Hannah Jude-Smith, USAF Lt. Col. Brian “Bud” Leitzke, and USAF Lt. Col. Shane “Axl” Praiswater.
Anew executive order issued by President Donald Trump this week authorizes the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence capabilities to map vulnerabilities in the department’s supply chains.
Approximately 5,200 enlisted medical students living in dorms at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston are being relocated due to what officials describe as “climate control systems and foundational defects” in the buildings. A JBSA spokesperson confirmed to KSAT that Army, Navy, and Air Force enlisted medical students assigned to the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) “are being relocated to on-base temporary lodging.”
Lockheed Martin is targeting a 2027 production start for its latest Sniper targeting pod, designed to improve network connectivity between fourth-generation fighters, the F-35, and future Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
The agency that keeps lists of draft-eligible men is looking for software to help simulate the personnel needs it would work to fill if a draft were reinstated.
