Two survivors of a Sept. 2 U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean were killed in follow-up attacks after they were seen still aboard the damaged vessel alongside packages of illegal narcotics, a senior commander is expected to tell lawmakers Dec. 4.
The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants, two people familiar with the findings said Dec. 3. Hegseth, however, has the ability to declassify material and the report did not find he did so improperly, according to one of the people familiar with the findings.
More than $148 billion was spent by the U.S. government in its failed attempt to build a free Afghanistan, according to the final report by the official watchdog office, whose careful documentation of waste and fraud, and its warnings of Taliban resurgence, went largely unheeded.
The Pentagon recently formed the U.S. military’s first kamikaze drone squadron under U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, marking its latest-to-be-revealed move to accelerate the adoption of affordable unmanned assets for modern warfare operations.
Air Forces Cyber, officially the 16th Air Force, will stand up its first Air Force Reserve cyber operations squadron dedicated solely to offensive cyber operations when the new year begins in January.
The U.S. Air Force is changing in-residence intermediate and senior developmental education for active-duty service members as part of a broader policy review, according to a Dec. 2 announcement.
Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, the U.S. Space Force’s top acquisition officer, told an audience of space industry executives Dec. 2 that the Pentagon’s future in orbit will depend on how effectively it harnesses private-sector innovation.
Advanced simulators and increasingly complex training environments rely on an abundance of different technologies, but integrating the rapidly growing area of artificial intelligence is something the Air Force is still figuring out.
Israel and Lebanon sent diplomatic envoys to a meeting of a U.S.-led cease-fire monitoring committee for the first time on Dec. 3, broadening the talks as fears grew that Israel might renew its offensive against Hezbollah.
The Kremlin on Dec. 3 said Russian President Vladimir Putin hadn't outright rejected the latest version of the U.S.-backed plan at his meeting with American officials, but added that more work would have to be done to make the proposal acceptable to Moscow. ... Those statements came as two of the top Ukrainian security officials were set to regroup on Dec. 3 in Brussels with several European counterparts to discuss the outcomes of the Dec. 2 U.S.-Russia meeting in Moscow.
Air Force SERE specialists—that's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape—are the military's survival experts trained to endure the harshest conditions on Earth and teach others to do the same. ... Senior Airman Aeryk Denniston unpacks every piece of gear he carries into the wilderness when training military members for long-term survival and evasion in hostile environments.
