NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Amid the Pentagon’s acquisition overhaul, the Space Force has created a new office dedicated to bridging the gap between the service’s operational needs and emerging industry capabilities.
The so-called Technology Portfolio Executive will report directly to Erich Hernandez-Baquero, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.

The 86th anniversary of the Battle of Britain h

The Iran War has caused a shortfall in U.S. munitions and “bottlenecks” in supply chains, according to a new report by the Pentagon’s watchdog.

The report, released on Monday, 14th September, is the first released since the war began in February.

F/A-18 Hornets and an F-22 Raptor fly in formation during the HUGE 1 flyover practice over the National Mall as part of the America 250 celebration in Washington, D.C., July 3, 2026. The formation showcased current U.S. military airpower during the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.

British Army bases can now spot drones they can

Houthi rebels have launched a fresh wave of attacks on southern Saudi Arabia as part of a renewed offensive in Yemen.

The Houthis, who are closely aligned with the authoritarian regime in Iran, have renewed hostilities in recent weeks in their long-running war against the Yemeni government.

A Louisiana Air National Guard F-15C Eagle streaks above the Ohio River during the Thunder Over Louisville air show in Louisville, Ky., April 18, 2026.

The mission statement for the United States’ military’s ongoing war with Iran — one that has lasted months, left hundreds of service members injured and 18 dead — is not only shrouded in mystery but classified. 
In the Pentagon’s first full accounting of the Iran war, the Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General wrote in its report to Congress that “The full [Operation Epic Fury] mission statement is classified.

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One of the week’s biggest bombs wasn’t dropped in Iran, it came at American theaters over the weekend. Director Paul Greengrass’ (“The One That Got Away”) new movie “The Uprising” stars Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge”) as Wat Tyler, a ploughman who leads the peasants of 1300s England in a revolt against the council that rules for the young King Richard II.
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“The Uprising” and its $20 million budget made a lackluster $3.25 million in U.S.

A group of submariners are aiming to break the

Diehl Defence and Elbit Systems demonstrated the operational capabilities of the latter’s SkyStriker loitering munition system in Germany.

Patria has secured a contract to deliver its multistatic coherent location (MUSCL) passive radar system to an unnamed European Nato member.

The Space Force currently has “space control weapons” in orbit, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink revealed today. His remarks are the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged putting offensive capabilities into orbit.
Meink was delivering a keynote address at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Maryland on Monday when he opened up about what the Space Force has put into space.
“Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist.

Satellite imagery reviewed has shown a large and highly unusual vessel under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, with its configuration strongly indicating that it is intended to operate and support large uncrewed submarines. The vessel appears to be the world’s first dedicated uncrewed submarine mothership, adding a potentially important new dimension to the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s rapidly expanding undersea warfare capabilities.

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Lost in the 25th Anniversary remembrance weekend of 11 SEP 2001 was the fact that there were significant changes on the ground in the festering sore on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, Yemen.
Bridget Toomey at FDD’s Long War Journal has a good summary.
On September 10, the Houthis seized the strategic port city of Mocha on Yemen’s southern Red Sea coast.

Former Marine Joseph Barna carried the memory of the Navy corpsman who saved his life and the lives of many other Marines during vicious fighting in the Korean War. In interviews and a book he later wrote on corpsmen who served in the war, Barna told the story of a deep stab wound he suffered and the sailor who pulled him into a hut to stitch it closed.
“I was bleeding, ready to fall asleep, and I hear a voice say ‘Joe, Joe, if I don’t stop that bleeding, you’re gonna bleed to death,’” Barma recalled in a 2015 interview, one of many he gave on Kilmer and his time in Korea.

David Cox firmly believed he did nothing wrong.
Cox didn’t dispute that he and nine other Marines hazed Private 1st Class William Alvarado at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 1986. They targeted Alvarado after he reported outside of the chain of command that they were involved in illegal fence-line shootings at Cuban soldiers.

A U.S. Space Force Guardian monitors a space effects command and control display at the Combined Space Operations Center, Vandenberg Space Force Base, May 28, 2026. Photo: U.S. Space Force/David Dozoretz
The US Space Force finally confirmed something that the national-security establishment has been hinting at for years: it has put “military weapons” in orbit around the Earth, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink confirmed at the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Monday.

Denmark will add a further 15 tank transporters to its current fleet in 2026, improving its own armoured mobility as well as that of Nato.

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the Air Force’s experience flying F-35s heavily in operations against Iran have showed what the jet can be capable of

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U.S. Air Force special operators confirmed on Sept.

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NRDC-ITA, as ARF Headquarters, held a Study Day on space and cyber readiness, interoperability.

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe they possess something that should give them that privilege: Saudi Arabia has the capital, Turkey has the defense industrial base, and Pakistan has the manpower and nuclear arsenal. Each can therefore imagine itself as the patron and the other two as clients. None of them, however, holds enough leverage to make that hierarchy stick.

Commercial satellite imagery has revealed North Korea’s first ballistic missile submarine, the unique sole vessel of the Gorae class ship, has been placed in drydock at the Sinpho South Shipyard, fuelling speculation that it may be benefitting from upgrades and refurbishment work. The submarine represents an earlier stage in the country’s efforts to develop a submarine-launched ballistic missile capability, and was first used to test ballistic missiles in 2016.

The armed forces of Saudi Arabia have utilised Chinese DF-15A short-range ballistic missile against Yemeni Ansurullah Coalition forces, marking the first ever strike using the weapons following decades of procurements from the East Asian state. Saudi Arabia has maintained one of the Middle East’s most secretive ballistic missile forces since the 1980s, providing a strategic strike capability which China has played a central role in the development of. The debris from one of the missiles was found Yemen’s Marib Governorate amid renewed fighting with Ansurullah Coalition forces.

The United States has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has weapons already deployed in orbit, marking a major shift in Washington’s longstanding policy of maintaining deliberate ambiguity over the offensive capabilities of its military space architecture. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made the disclosure on September 14, stating that the United States has on-orbit weapons supporting a mission to protect American interests in space. Meink indicated that the weapons are associated with the U.S.

The U.S. Army is converting an Oregon Army National Guard armoured battalion equipped with M1A2 Abrams tanks into a lighter mobile infantry formation, reflecting a broader effort to increase battlefield mobility and survivability in an era increasingly shaped by drones, long-range fires and dispersed operations. The 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment has been redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 186th Infantry Regiment, becoming Oregon’s first mobile infantry battalion.

Footage released by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) showed an H-6N  medium range strategic bomber flying with the JL-1 ballistic missile during a joint anti-ship exercise, providing one of the clearest public indications yet of the aircraft’s role in China’s developing airborne nuclear force. The bomber has emerged as an increasingly important component of the country’s nuclear deterrent following the public confirmation that the aircraft can carry the nuclear-capable JL-1.

The Pentagon issued a formal waiver to protect whistleblowers who wish to disclose new information about the government’s involvement with unidentified anomalous phenomena and related technologies from prosecution or career retaliation.
An announcement on Monday indicates the Defense Department is actively voiding certain agreements that have previously kept individuals from speaking freely with representatives authorized under the Trump administration’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) project.

Finland has joined France’s expanding Forward Deterrence initiative, bringing the country’s long border with Russia into a new framework for European nuclear deterrence and giving France greater opportunities to operate nuclear-capable forces from northern Europe. The decision was announced on September 14 following discussions between French President Emmanuel Macron and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

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Saudi Arabia’s emergency route around the Strait of Hormuz has been knocked largely out of action just as another Iran-aligned force tightens its grip on the opposite side of the Arabian Peninsula.

Saudi Arabia’s 745-mile East-West Pipeline, which carries crude from the Persian Gulf side to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, is now largely out of service due to last week’s slew of drone strikes.

B-2A, serial #88-0331, ‘Spirit of South Carolina’ of the 509th Bomb Wing, Air Force Global Strike Command, on the parking ramp at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, during a visit April 11, 2017.

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Before sunrise on Sept. 11, Pfc. Ocean K. Winfrey, a 27-year-old Army basic trainee, was on foot along Interstate 44 just outside Fort Sill, Oklahoma, when he was struck and killed by a passing vehicle.
The incident happened at roughly 4:45 a.m. near mile marker 41, the exit leading to Fort Sill’s Key Gate, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Fort Sill officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that Winfrey was a Basic Combat Training trainee assigned to Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 79th Field Artillery Regiment, 434th Field Artillery Brigade.

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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.

Donald Trump Blames Volodymyr Zelensky for Rising Diesel Prices – U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to cease strikes against Russian oil refineries amid a worldwide diesel shortage.

Trump encouraged the Ukrainian President not to strike targets that produce diesel, arguing that the ongoing drone campaign was “hurting the world.”

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Croatian defence spending as a proportion of GDP was estimated to have crossed 2% in 2025, according to Nato statistics.

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According to AFSOC, two AGM-190As were fired at two different ground targets. During a call with reporters, officials from the command declined to say what types of targets were struck or identify the adversary that was on the receiving end.
“We work every day to disrupt the networks that have made Africa the epicenter of global terrorism,” Africom Commander Gen. Dagvin Anderson said in a statement. “These successful operational assessments prove we will continue to bring the unique capabilities only the U.S. can provide in order to defend U.S. interests alongside our partners.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink announced Monday that the Space Force has deployed weapons into space in order to combat adversary threats.
“Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist. This is why the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary actions,” Meink said during his keynote speech at AFA’s annual Air, Space and Cyber conference.