China has put its largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier into active service, boosting Beijing’s quest to create a formidable oceangoing navy that can challenge U.S. power in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals over the past nine months in a series of ousters that could reshape the U.S. military for years to come.
The U.S. Army plans to increase partnerships with private industry and boost its own manufacturing capacity to field at least one million drones within the next two to three years, an Army spokesperson told Military Times.
As the Army races to realize the promise of unmanned aircraft—more platforms, more flexibility, less risk to aircrew—it is shrinking the units that fly and maintain the helicopters that have long been central to the service’s way of war. Some pilots worry that their careers and expertise will be lost in the transition, even as some express optimism that the Army’s new contractor-run training approach will make tomorrow’s smaller aviation community better than ever.
Lawmakers in both congressional chambers are calling for the creation of a new whole-of-government plan to confront emerging national security threats associated with expanding cooperation between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—and to ultimately help ensure the U.S. is prepared to counter concurrent challenges from multiple adversaries in the years to come.
Marine veteran Andrew Bain spent the past 30 years living and working in Ukraine. He and Adm. Ihor Voronchenko (Ret.), former commander of the Ukrainian Navy, join hosts Heather “Lucky” Penney and Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF (Ret.) for an inside look at technical and tactical innovation in the fight for survival against Russian aggression.
Blue Origin called off its first attempt at the second launch of its New Glenn rocket Nov. 9, citing weather and other issues.
The Defense Department has released a highly anticipated plan to attract and retain cyber talent by better integrating U.S. Cyber Command with other military departments for recruitment and training, and establishing three new organizations to improve the military’s hacking and defensive prowess.
China has ramped up its weapons development programs to a breathtaking degree, introducing waves of new missiles, ground combat systems, and vessels, as well as vastly expanding its nuclear triad. ... With so much development emerging publicly, and so much more going on clandestinely, along with other developments around an increasingly troubled globe, including from an active war in Ukraine, a critical question must be raised: Is the American intelligence apparatus able to deal with so much foreign technological change at one time?
Col. Ryan Herman, the head of an Air Force operations group in Spain was relieved of command after only four months in the job, the Air Force announced Nov. 7.
Multiple people fell ill but no one was hospitalized on Nov. 6 after an individual at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland opened a “suspicious package” containing negative sentiments toward President Trump.
President Donald Trump took time out on the way to the Washington Commanders-Detroit Lions game to compliment his Air Force One pilot on “the greatest flyover ever.”
