President Trump said “every single one” of the military generals involved in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan should be fired, seated next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting on Feb. 26.
The Trump administration directed federal agencies on Feb. 26 to prepare for mass layoffs, according to the heads of the White House budget and personnel management offices.
Iran has sharply increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in recent weeks, according to a confidential United Nations report, as Tehran amasses a critical raw material for atomic weapons. The increase in Iran’s holdings of uranium enriched to 60 percent, or nearly weapons grade, gives it enough to produce six nuclear weapons.
Following a lengthy delay as the U.S. Army and Navy struggled to test the round, the Army will field its long-range hypersonic weapon to the first unit by the end of fiscal 2025, a defense official confirmed Feb. 26 in a statement to Defense News.
The Pentagon reduced waste, abuse, and mismanagement in most “high-risk” areas over the past two years, but is losing ground in weapons acquisition, the Government Accountability Office said in a recent report.
The Space Force should “embrace its exceptionalism” and push Congress and the Trump administration to allow the service to forge new ways of doing business—from how it buys kit to how it trains Guardians to how it defines its missions, according to a new policy paper from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) plans to accept the first operational OA-1K light attack aircraft next month as it looks at long-term plans to add capability to the armed crop duster. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOC) intends to buy 62 of the L3Harris and Air Tractor aircraft, which originally were intended to provide cheap close air support at austere locations to support special operations troops.
Military planners have centuries of battlefield history to draw from when wargaming conflicts on land, at sea, and in the air. But in space—where no war has ever been waged—there is no historical precedent to guide strategy, no past battles to analyze, and no proven playbook for how a conflict might unfold. This presents a unique challenge for the U.S. Space Force as it works to build a wargaming and experimentation infrastructure capable of modeling a domain where the rules of warfare remain largely untested.
Hundreds of tech-focused officials from across the Pentagon, U.S. military, startups, and large corporations are set to gather on the Hill Wednesday evening with dozens of lawmakers from all sides of the political aisle to officially celebrate the recent launch of the new Senate Defense Modernization Caucus—and build hype around members’ near-term plans, sources said this week.
Raytheon has revealed that it’s working on a ground-launched version of its StormBreaker glide bomb, previously available only in air-launched form. The new development of the weapon should provide a very versatile follow-on to the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB).
Just two hours into a 10-hour commercial flight, Air Force Capt. Theresa Ziegler was about to take a nap when she heard an announcement from flight attendants asking if any medical personnel were on the plane.