Subscription Required
The Wall Street Journal
Israel began in earnest its difficult push into Gaza City, sending troops into an urban Hamas stronghold that is still packed with civilians after one of the most intense bombing barrages of the monthlong war. Israel’s ground operations around Gaza City were accompanied by continued airstrikes, with the military saying Nov. 6 that its jet fighters had struck around 450 targets over the previous 24 hours.
13 WMAZ
It's hard to leave those you love, and Nov. 6, it was even harder for the last JSTARS plane to leave Robins Air Force Base. It was so hard, it actually couldn't take off. Due to mechanical problems, they plan to try again on Nov. 15.
Air & Space Forces Association
Storied Tuskegee Airman James Harvey III was honorarily promoted to Colonel during halftime of the Air Force vs. Army game on Nov. 4 before tens of thousands of spectators at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo. Harvey, who turned 100 years of age in July, is among the few World War II Tuskegee Airmen still surviving today.
Breaking Defense
Last year, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stated publicly a goal of one day being among the world’s top four weapons suppliers, behind the U.S., Russia, and France. It was an ambitious goal, to be sure, but one that doesn’t seem nearly as impossible as it would have even a few years ago, thanks to a series of major deals inked by Seoul and its domestic arms industries.
Air Force Times
A new documentary—“Three Chaplains”—chronicles the struggle that three Muslim chaplains endured to keep their faith, fight for religious freedom, and end stigmas about Islam among fellow service members.
Subscription Required
The New York Times
Shield AI is one of a handful of start-ups demonstrating the potential of cutting-edge technology to revolutionize war-fighting tools and help the United States keep its military advantage over China. The company and others like Anduril Industries, Autonodyne, EpiSci, and Merlin Labs are developing new and more powerful ways for the Pentagon to gather and analyze information and act on it, including flying planes without pilots, creating swarms of autonomous surveillance and attack drones, and making targeting decisions faster than humans could.
Defense News
U.S. Navy officials say this building, the Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence, represents the future of the submarine industry—and perhaps the service’s only path to building the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and Virginia-class attack submarine on time. The Navy has already used additive manufacturing to print small repair parts on ships at sea, including circuit covers and radio knobs that would be difficult and expensive for the service to access while deployed.
NBC News
Personal information about Active-duty U.S. service members is cheap, easy to buy, and widely advertised by data brokers who sell Americans’ data, according to a Duke University study published Nov 6. The researchers behind the study said they purchased a variety of data including names, phone numbers, addresses, and sometimes even information like the names of service members’ children, their marital status, net worth, and credit rating, often for as little as 12 cents per person. In total, the researchers bought nearly 50,000 service members’ records for a little over $10,000.
Subscription Required
Stars and Stripes
An American soldier stationed at a base in Qatar as part of a mission to defeat the Islamic State group has died, the Defense Department said. Staff Sgt. Felix A. Berrios was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve when he died Nov. 3 at Al Udeid Air Base, the department said Nov. 5 in a statement. The death was not combat-related. Berrios, 33, was from Houston, the Pentagon said. He was assigned to the 25th Signal Battalion, 160th Signal Brigade.
One More Thing
The War Zone
A recent video of a Japanese F-15J Eagle brilliantly shows the fighter's maneuvering air intakes bobbing up and down in flight. Although it certainly looks strange in a techno-marvel kind of way, there is an important reason for it central to the aircraft's functionality.
