Israel launched airstrikes early June 8 targeting central and western Iran in response to missile fire from Tehran, attacks that threatened to drag the wider Middle East back into a regional war.
The U.S. military shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones June 5 that were heading toward the Strait of Hormuz and posed an imminent threat to maritime traffic, according to the U.S. Central Command (Centcom).
Ukraine launched a drone attack near St. Petersburg overnight June 6, hitting the area again just before the last day of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s flagship economic forum in the city.
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made his first official trip to Venezuela this week, five months after the high-risk U.S. military operation that removed the country’s strongman leader, Nicolás Maduro, from power.
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The Pentagon has begun accepting small, one-way attack drones as part of its larger push to boost production and provide every squad with the weapon later this year, according to the program’s website.
In an era when unauthorized drone incursions at U.S. military installations are surging, these disruptions pose a particularly unique threat for U.S. Transportation Command. “It is a clear and present issue that we have to pay attention to,” TRANSCOM Commander Gen. Randall Reed said June 3. “So, yes, we have conversations in that realm—and we have done so quite frequently.”
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto, a technology and cybersecurity leader, as its new chief information officer.
If the military established a separate Cyber Force, what would it look like? According to a new report from two Washington, D.C. think tanks, it would initially cost upwards of $11 billion dollars through reallocations of existing funds, focus on offensive and defense cyber operations, and—crucially—employ roughly 30,000 uniformed and civilian personnel, excluding enlisted troops.
The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest level, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official.
SpaceX’s years of courting the national-security establishment are paying off. The U.S. government is SpaceX’s largest single client, which the 24-year-old company identified as “Customer A” in securities filings ahead of its planned initial public offering. Revenue from the government, which totaled around $4 billion in 2025, is set to sharply climb over the next few years.
TWZ’s Jamie Hunter recently visited the 66th Weapons Squadron and got a detailed cockpit and walk-around tour of an A-10C with “Trippin,” an experienced instructor pilot attached to the unit.
