For Gen. Randall Reed, the head of U.S. Transportation Command, a predictable supply chain optimized for perfection has wrought its own “self-induced vulnerability,” especially in the AI age. In turn, he said AI could help Transcom become less predictable to adversaries.
The military, and the rest of the logistics world, relies on supply systems that value regular processes and precise deliveries that adversaries can analyze and exploit better than ever with the use of AI.

As the U.S. Navy finds itself engaged in conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and anticipates rising tensions in the Pacific to come, maintaining the nation’s “maritime dominance” depends on delivering ubiquitous connectivity — and providing the ability to sustain operations when those communications are degraded — the service’s top IT official said Tuesday.

Space Force is seeking “several hundred officer and enlisted” personnel to transfer from other branches.
This month, the Space Force launched a new iteration of its Interservice Transfer Program, which lets members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps become guardians.
“All eligible ranks and career fields may apply, but the Space Force is particularly interested in mid-grade officers and enlisted service members with space-related experience,” a Space Force spokesperson told Task & Purpose.

The Army ladies battled their way to fourth at

Operation Inherent Resolve is scheduled to end on Sept. 30, as remaining U.S. troops in northern Iraq complete their withdrawal. The United States formed Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve in October 2014 to bring together partners to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which had seized territory in parts of Iraq and Syria. The end of Operation Inherent Resolve highlights the success of coalition efforts against ISIL but also raises questions about future political stability and security in Iraq and Syria — and whether ISIL could rise again. The U.

Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has called for the Iran war to “end quickly” ahead of November’s midterms.

Rogers, who was formerly chair of the House Intelligence Committee, made the comments in a video released on Monday, 21st September.

KEKAHA, Hawaii — U.S. Army 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which can fire traditional rocket artillery rounds or long-range missiles with various payloads, on Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 11.

Defense agencies expanding their use of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems face a mounting challenge: How to overcome the operational friction arising from the massive sprawl of distributed data systems. That sprawl contributes to critical blind spots and vulnerabilities across IT stacks. More fundamentally, it delays threat response times at a time when AI gives adversaries increased speed and capabilities.

British troops have been awarded campaign medal

Iran may be close to reopening the Strait of Hormuz within seven days in the prospect of renewed diplomacy with the United States.

Reuters reports that an unnamed senior Iranian official said the vital shipping lane, which has been closed since the start of the war at the end of February, could be reopened within a week subject to conditions.

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks on the economy at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York on Friday, May 22, 2026.(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

President Donald J.

The Challenger 2 is the British Army’s current Main Battle Tank (MBT).

It is, according to some, one of the most advanced tanks in the world, featuring a lethal blend of firepower, mobility, and survivability.

Challenger 2 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Challenger 2 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Vickers Defense Systems: The Challenger 2 was originally designed and first accepted into service in 1998.

The tank was developed as a successor to the often-overlooked Challenger 1 and made significant improvements to its armor and mobility.

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Can the Houthis be defeated in Yemen or are the

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On Sept. 4, A24 quietly released “Onslaught”—and I say “quietly” because I’m a target demographic (prior military, in attendance for summer 2026 action films and blockbusters, writer for military entertainment articles, etc.) and I didn’t hear about it until two weeks after it hit theaters.
Also Read: You’re not ready for this prisoner of war film based on a true story
And now I’m telling you about it.

USS Carney engages Houthi missile threat in the Red Sea. Photo: U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

The fighting across Yemen’s western front on Monday and Tuesday was focused on the Kahboub Mountains in the provinces of Taiz and Lahj. The Houthi attempt to take the strategic high ground came just days after they captured the key Red Sea port city of Mocha from Saudi-backed Yemeni forces.

Gurkha recruits have taken on one of their toug

The age-old military sporting rivalry takes to

One of the Air Force’s most talented pilots was looping his F-16CM Thunderbird jet into a routine maneuver during a training flight last December that required him to push the plane’s engine to full thrust, which pilots call “Military Power.”
Anticipating the familiar feeling of being pushed into his seat by the full power of the F-16’s engine, the pilot later told Air Force officials that he suddenly felt “like the jet just…stopped midair.

The non-hostile death of an Army officer in support of ongoing operations in the Iran war was quietly reported in the Pentagon’s casualty tracking database Monday.
The female soldier was on a military flight en route to Saudi Arabia when she suffered a medical incident, a defense official told Task & Purpose.
The Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System was updated Sept. 21, with the fifth death of a service member listed under “Overseas Operations,” a category used for Iran war casualties since July 7.

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Rheinmetall Electronics completed Factory Acceptance Tests for its combat training equipment for the Heavy Infantry Weapon Carrier.

The MoD of Ukraine has codified a new armoured vehicle based on the Dodge RAM 5500, clearing the way for its supply to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

When a group of civilian hunters found themselves trapped by a rising river above the Arctic Circle this month, an Alaska Air National Guard team had to use just about every backcountry rescue trick in the book to get them out.
In a span of a day-long rescue that extended into night, the Anchorage-based 176th Wing flew an HC-130 to the most remote corner of the state, where a team of pararescuemen, or PJs, parachuted near the missing hunters, according to a release from the Guard.

Aerial view of Thule Air Base (now Pituffik Space Base), Greenland. Photo: U.S. Air Force / Public Domain

The United States is set to establish two new military bases in Greenland under a trilateral agreement with Denmark and Greenland expected to be signed Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Washington intends to reopen Narsarsuaq, the site of the former Bluie West One installation that operated through the 1950s, as well as establish a new presence at Mestersvig on Greenland’s remote east coast.

On October 21, 1942, a B-17D Flying Fortress encountered navigational problems over the Pacific Ocean.
Those issues caused the aircraft to veer off course and miss its scheduled refueling stop. Without any gas left, the pilot, Capt. William Cherry, ditched the plane in the water between Hawaii and New Guinea.
Besides Cherry, seven other men were on board, and they quickly filled three life rafts. One of the survivors was World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, who was en route to deliver a secret, verbal message to Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

H.H. Seck, Air Force Times
About six months after rolling out a tougher, more combat-centric, entry-level U.S.

Craig Langford, UKDJ
A new FQ-42 Vengeance Collaborative Combat Aircraft has been delivered to Creech Air Force Base

Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven
The F-47 will infiltrate contested airspace, unleashing the SiAW to precisely neutralize advanced enemy defenses and empower future air operations

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“It’s going to take 15 or 20 years to get those types of people,” said Air Force Lt. Gen.

Todd South & Greg Hadley, A&SF
single-pallet-sized tactical operations center is slated to begin shipping to 70 Air Force units by the end of the year

Estonian firms Threod Systems, Krattworks and Electrical Wings participated in UAS live flying demonstrations outside Tallinn.

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Coverage of the new White House memorandum on combating cybercrime quickly reached the privateer label. CNN called the participants “cyber privateers,” invoking the image of government-sanctioned raiders working the high seas of cyberspace, hauling in digital booty. The reality is considerably less romantic. The administration has tried to create a private offensive cyber program using an exception buried in outdated legislation, and that has shaped how the program must be constructed.

North Korea has announced the successful test of a new missile system incorporating a hypersonic glide vehicle, marking the latest test since such systems were first flown in September 2021. South Korean forces detected two short-range ballistic missile launches from the country’s eastern coast, reporting that the projectiles travelled approximately 450 and 600 kilometres before falling into the sea, indicating that the vehicles are intended for a short range tactical system.

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The Republic of China Armed Forces have conducted a three-day precision-fire exercise at Jiupeng in Pingtung County integrating U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket artillery systems with various loitering munitions, air-defence systems and anti-ship missiles. Th exercises provided a large-scale demonstration of the services’ ability to coordinate multiple weapon systems against an amphibious assault. The exercise, which began in September 2026, is focused on integrating sensors, command-and-control networks and precision weapons rather than simply demonstrating the range of individual systems.

HMS Queen Elizabeth crew have paraded through t

III Armored Corps is starting to get basic layers of the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) technology, according to a press release and a service official, the first unit to dump an older network for the new prototype under a consolidated fielding process.
NGC2 — which Army officials have touted as a data-heavy ecosystem of hardware and software meant to allow commanders to make faster decisions against increasingly sophisticated adversaries — comes with a four-layer stack. III Armored Corps is now getting two of those layers initially: infrastructure and transport.

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New satellite imagery has provided a detailed look at a Chinese nuclear-powered attack submarine at the Bohai Shipyard in Huludao, revealing several features that point to significant advances over earlier Chinese designs. The submarine is widely described by outside observers as a Type 095, which is intended to succeed and significantly outperform the earlier Type 093 class ships that currently form the backbone of the nuclear powered combat fleet. Recently commenting on the Type 095 program, former U.S.

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An ocean fishing charter off the Florida Coast near Eglin Air Force Base had an unusually large, scaleless catch. The large gray behemoth in question was a U.S. military LUCAS drone, a one-way attack aircraft derived from a design modeled after Iran’s Shahed-136.
Base officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the drone went down Sept. 17 during routine testing on the base’s range, two days before fishermen found it floating in the Gulf.
“On Thursday, Sept.

Normandy veteran Ken Hay, known as ‘Grandad K

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

Space Systems Command and the Defense Innovation Unit awarded prototype contracts to Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly to build next-generation reconnaissance satellites that can keep an eye on other objects in orbit.
The awards, announced Friday, will support the Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance (GHOST-R) initiative, part of the Space Force’s RG-XX program. The service is keen on using commercial technologies for the project.

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China has publicly displayed information concerning a laser weapon system associated with its first sixth generation fighter, as the aircraft continued to progress rapidly in flight testing since its unveiling in December 2024. At the 14th China International Defence Electronics Exhibition in Beijing from September 15 to 17, the Beijing Precision Engineering Institute for Aircraft Industry displayed an “Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing” system for a fighter aircraft laser weapon alongside an illustration of the J-36.