President Donald Trump threatened military action against Oman, an ally of the United States, if its negotiations with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz interfere with U.S. efforts to reach a peace deal with Tehran.
L3Harris Technologies, the company that overhauled a Qatari plane now used as Air Force One, has replaced Christopher Kubasik as chairman and chief executive after an investigation determined he violated the defense contractor’s code of conduct.
President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea does not just slight a longtime ally but raises broader concerns about the security interests of the United States in Asia and elsewhere.
“China’s People’s Liberation Army has not fought a major war in nearly five decades, leaving many of the concepts driving its modernization efforts untested in combat. So it’s no surprise that Chinese military researchers are soaking in everything they can from the conflict in Iran in order to measure those concepts against battlefield reality,” writes Tye Graham, a senior researcher with BluePath Labs and a retired U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer.
On Aug. 17, United Launch Alliance announced that Mark Peller has been named the company’s new president and CEO. This comes eight months after Tory Bruno resigned from the company to be the president of the National Security Group of Blue Origin.
Army officials plan to resume Apache training flights in days, after the fleet was grounded following a crash that left two soldiers dead in Texas, according to an internal memo reviewed by Defense One.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard veteran, has repeatedly elevated military recruiting successes into the marquee achievement of his tenure and folded recruiting, long treated as an apolitical function of the military, into a broader culture-war proxy. ... The military’s recruiting rebound is real, but the reasons behind it are far less political than Hegseth's framing suggests. ABC News interviewed nearly 40 recruits and prospective recruits at different stages of enlistment, along with two dozen recruiters across the military and current and former defense officials, and found young Americans are still largely making the same calculation that has driven enlistment for decades: steady pay, education benefits, job training and a direct path to the middle class.
Defense Department leaders instructed 30 American universities and specialized technology institutes to immediately audit their academic, financial, and research connections to foreign entities that the government considers too risky or hostile to engage with.
On Aug. 17, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced that the U.S. Navy awarded a $22.9 billion contract to Raytheon to accelerate production of Tomahawk missiles amid a munitions shortage in the months after the start of the Iran war.
The rapid delivery of high-quality satellite images to frontline troops is one of the key battlefield advancements of the last year, enabling Ukraine to strike quickly against weapons depots, logistical hubs, and troop encampments deep within territory held by Russia, and in Russia itself.
About 20 years before he piloted an F-16 over Air Force in a football practice flyby that has racked up millions of views online, Lt. Col. Nate Walker was a Colorado Springs Christian School running back with NCAA Division I aspirations.
