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French Air Force Rafale fighter units based in Poland have trained to disperse their operations and simulate measures intended to survive missile and drone attacks. The exercises demonstrated how quickly frontline airpower could relocate when established bases became vulnerable, and focused on preserving sortie generation from dispersed locations and reducing dependence on fixed infrastructure.  This follows lessons from the U.S.

Two months after announcing mandatory testosterone screenings, and weeks after rolling back an initial plan for it, the Department of Defense is directing all male service members ages 30 and above to get screened to see if they have a deficiency.
On Thursday, the Defense Department issued “Clinical Practice Guideline for Testosterone Deficiency in the Male Service Member.” The new guidance is effective “immediately,” according to a Pentagon spokesperson, and notes that health assessment questions around the military are being updated to match the new rules.

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), a military retail organization that serves troops, veterans and their families, said it is investigating a string of suspicious messages sent to its customers through email and the store’s official app.
Customers began posting messages to social media Wednesday showing messages they received from an account purporting to be from AAFES. One email contained a link to a “wish list” being offered by the “AAFES Security Team.

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Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranU.S. strikes on Iranian soil tapered off in August after frequent exchanges throughout July.

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As many as 16,300 troops could be granted medical shaving waivers in the coming months. If those troops cannot meet the Pentagon’s new “clean-shaven” standards over the next year, they could be separated from the military under new grooming policies.
Numbers provided to Task & Purpose by the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force for service members with shaving waivers were current as of September. The Navy’s data indicated the number of troops diagnosed with medical conditions that prevent them from shaving, but did not specify whether those sailors had been granted waivers.

Veterans Minister Calvin Bailey was amongst the

Modern military technology requires strategic metals, with supply of critical important and a source of geopolitical tension.

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Shoot, move, and communicate are the basics of combat. The “move” requirement, however, can be extremely difficult in the snow; just ask anyone unlucky enough to get stationed at Fort Drum.
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With its increasing emphasis on Arctic warfare, the U.S. military is starting investing in existing snowmobiles across the services while adding a new model to expand capabilities.
To provide mobility and logistics of light units in snowy regions, the U.S.

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The Defense Department this week announced the winners of the second “Gauntlet” competition under its Drone Dominance Program, the Pentagon’s signature effort to ramp up the U.S. military’s arsenal of small unmanned aerial systems.
Since its inception last year, the program has been primarily focused on evaluating and procuring large quantities of low-cost, one-way attack drones for the military, with the goal of rapidly fielding them across the force. The department aims to acquire more than 200,000 UAS across several phases of the initiative by 2027.

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The Army said Friday that soldiers who qualify as drill sergeants — the campaign-hatted instructors who sternly welcome new recruits into the Army — will automatically be promoted to the rank of staff sergeant when they complete training for the job.
Soldiers must be sergeants — the E-5 pay grade in the Army — to volunteer for drill sergeant duty. Service as a drill sergeant is generally a three-year tour away from a soldier’s primary job in the Army.

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As artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons increasingly shape the battlefield, military chaplains are considering how AI’s growing use will weigh on the morality and spirituality of service members.
Earlier this month, some chaplains in U.S. Army Europe and Africa attended a conference aimed at navigating the moral or spiritual impacts of military missions increasingly intertwined with AI. The training covered the dissociation of flying first-person-view drones in combat and how automated systems could leave troops less time to consider the moral consequences of their actions.

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The first F-35A fifth generation fighters built for the Finnish Air Force have arrived in the country, marking a major milestone in the service’s modernisation of its combat aviation capabilities. The delivery further marks the beginning of a major shift in the balance of power in the air in Northern Europe, with the Air Force scheduled to receive 64 F-35A fighters to replace its fleet of obsolete F-18C/D Hornet fourth generation fighters.

BAE Systems OneArc has received a contract from the US Army to integrate its Embedded Collective Training (ECT) solution onto a platoon of combat vehicles stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

As the elevator doors closed, Willette Alston’s heart broke.
In September 1993, Alston handed her 13-month-old son, William, to her father and prepared to enter rehabilitation for a crack cocaine addiction. As they said their goodbyes, the toddler reached out with both arms for his mother and pleaded in his limited vocabulary for them not to go.
As she turned her back, Alston cried. So many years later, she still can hear the sounds of her son’s screams through the elevator doors.
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General Dynamics Electric Boat has shared a photo showing the first completed Virginia Payload Module (VPM) for the U.S.

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China is devoting enormous efforts — from submarines to ballistic missiles — to destroy America’s aircraft carriers

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An Italian Air Force Eurofighter was reportedly destroyed during a Yemeni Ansurullah Coalition attack on King Fahd Air Base near Ta’if, Saudi Arabia, marking the latest escalation in attacks against foreign military forces operating in the kingdom. Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto confirmed that the aircraft was struck while parked at the base. The aircraft was located in a non-central or remote area of the base when it was hit, indicating that it was specifically targeted.

Washington is preparing for the right war, but in the wrong theater. For years, U.S. strategic thinking has centered on the Indo‑Pacific: the militarized atolls of the South China Sea, China’s churning naval shipyards, and the tense waters of the Taiwan Strait. Yet the next phase of competition will likely play out on the Eurasian landmass, contested through pipelines, swing states, and shifting alignments along routes that overlap with the ancient Silk Road. This is where China is building alternative trade and energy corridors beyond the immediate reach of U.S. military power.

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Russian state defence conglomerate Rostec has taken the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt as an opportunity to showcase the extreme range of its Su-57 fifth generation fighter, flying the aircraft to the Northeast African country on internal fuel, and subsequently operating it at the airshow without the need to refuel first. “The Russian fifth generation Su-57E fighter demonstrated exceptional flight range with internal fuel tanks. The Su-57E flew to the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt using internal fuel tanks located inside the cargo bay.

Footage released on Chinese social media has for the first time shown the sixth generation fighter under development by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation in flight testing with a radar, as indicated by the colouring of its randome. Fighters integrating radars in testing have consistently used light grey randomes, with the new colour indicating that the program has progressed to the next stage of flight testing.

U.S. Africa Command recently set up its own Defense Economics Office to explore modern policy reforms, new ways to disrupt adversaries’ revenue streams and other money-related activities that can generate concrete security impacts, as it pivots to a significantly smaller physical presence across the African continent.
“A lot of times just the economic investment that we have done [with our African partners] is what provides us the ability to gain access or to be able to bring in ships and fueling, [and] allows us to be able to have that communication,” Africom commander Gen.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Space Force is making headway on two efforts the service says will modernize how the Defense Department tracks airborne and ground-based moving targets.
The first Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) prototypes will be launched into low-Earth orbit before the end of September, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink announced Monday. The upcoming mission comes after the Space Force tapped SpaceX in May to field an operational constellation by 2028.
“We are applying the same approach to proliferating constellations.

The year 2026 has brought sweeping change to Latin America’s relationship with the United States. Following a major military buildup in the Caribbean and strikes against vessels suspected of drug trafficking, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3 — unilaterally deposing the country’s leader and making new oil deals with the post-Maduro government.

Doug DeMaio says he still hasn’t out-processed from the base where he was once the commanding officer. In August 2022, DeMaio says he was abruptly relieved as the commander of the Alabama Air National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing, and within three hours left the Guard’s Dannelly Field in Montgomery.
He’s been barred from going back since.
And still, he says, he doesn’t know why he was fired.
“I have no idea why I was removed,” DeMaio told Task & Purpose. “No clue.

The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, sustained operational demands, and the diversion of forces and attention from other theaters.

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Nokia Defense and UK-based C3IA have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly advance digital communications capabilities for the UK defence sector.

Rheinmetall UK and Mercedes-Benz UK have formalised their partnership as they plan to support the British Army’s future tactical mobility requirements under the Land Mobility Programme.

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The U.S. Air Force is currently considering resuming procurements of the F-16 in Fiscal Year 2027, which would mark the end of a 22 year pause in procurements in the expectation that the F-35A would replace the Cold War era fighter type. A proposed new variant designated the F-16G is derived from the latest F-16 Block 70 standard, but incorporates a number of additional systems intended to provide substantially greater range, sensor coverage and operational flexibility than earlier F-16C/D fighters.

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Many polls over the last year and a half show how unpopular President Donald Trump is and how low his approval rating has fallen.

One recent poll asks a unique question: Whether voters agree with certain words as they’re applied to the president.

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the media alongside outgoing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Friday, August 21, 2026, en route to South Carolina. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

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Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney loved to hunt while growing up on a ranch in a small town in Oregon. His father, who served in the Marine Corps during World War II, taught his son how to fire a rifle. The younger Mawhinney paid attention.
Mawhinney followed his father in the military, choosing the Marines over the Navy only because they allowed him to delay his entry so he wouldn’t miss deer hunting season. Mawhinney’s original plan was to become a military pilot, but he failed the flight qualification test because of heavy drinking the previous night.

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