The Pentagon has formally acknowledged that U.S. military operations killed more than 150 innocent civilians and injured over 240 people in 2025, with three airstrikes in Yemen accounting for every casualty the department confirmed.
Commanders should expect any conflict in the information age to expand far beyond the geography where missiles are flying or troops are warring, and in that environment, controlling information may become as consequential as controlling physical terrain, U.S. Strategic Command’s top officer said Aug. 11.
“Recent concern over the Iranian leadership reluctance to agree to U.S. demands following the precise application of force from the air has some raising the so-called ‘limits of airpower’ as an issue. Such a characterization risks misdiagnosing the problem,” writes retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
Boeing revealed an ultra-low-cost radar seeker Aug. 11 as this year’s Space and Missile Defense Symposium kicked off in Huntsville, Ala., pitching it as a way to get missile guidance on more weapons for less money.
As the Pentagon and other militaries around the world rush to deploy large satellite constellations designed to be less susceptible to kinetic attack, U.S. military officials responsible for space operations see laser weapons—on the ground, in the air, at sea, and even in space―as both a future threat and an opportunity.
Expect to see the solicitation for the next iteration of the Pentagon's main cloud-computing contract on Aug. 24. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract is the Defense Department’s vehicle for buying cloud services from the main hyperscalers: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced the date as part of its monthly acquisition post.
While the Air Force is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for its sustainment and maintenance needs, service officials say most efforts remain in experimentation or market research as they determine where the technology can provide meaningful gains.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has plans for a new radar to succeed the AN/TPY-2. The AN/TPY-2 is most commonly associated with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense ballistic missile defense system, but it can also be used as a stand-alone sensor in a larger integrated air defense network. MDA’s main desire now is to find a more mobile radar system to make them less susceptible to enemy missile and drone attacks.
The U.S. military disabled a Panama-flagged cargo tanker on Aug. 11 attempting to transit the Gulf of Oman in violation of the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command, which oversees the action of U.S. forces in the Middle East, announced.
President Donald Trump said Aug. 11 that he slipped away from Air Force One after a recent summit in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat.
When he saw a car being engulfed by flames, Senior Airman Dalton Clark did not hesitate to act. Assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing, Clark was driving in heavy traffic toward Hurlburt Field, Florida, last month when he first saw black smoke from the burning car. Then he saw that someone was inside the vehicle.
