The Pentagon’s innovation hub is looking for a stealthy, autonomous vessel to address significant support challenges that naval and Marine units would face across vast, contested ocean spaces in a potential conflict.
Over the last two years, some Marine Corps units have been ramping up efforts to get autonomous low-profile vessels (ALPV), dubbed the “narco boat,” to resupply forces in the Pacific where established logistics nodes would be few and far between and troops would face significant dangers should a war break out with China.

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The U.S. military’s operations against Iran reached a new level of intensity on Tuesday when an American submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, marking the first time since 1945 that a Navy submarine had used a torpedo to sink an enemy vessel.
The explosion from the torpedo strike was so powerful that it briefly lifted the Iranian ship’s stern out of the water, a video of the attack released by the Defense Department shows.
A U.S. official confirmed to Task & Purpose that a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine carried out the torpedo attack on the Iranian warship.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the fighter jet of choice for the United States and 19 allied nations, including the United Kingdom and Israel. The UK’s Royal Air Force flies the F-35B Lightning II while the Israeli Air Force operates the F-35I Adir, Hebrew for “mighty” or “powerful,” an Israeli-specific variant of the F-35.
Following the outbreak of the 2026 conflict with Iran, the F-35 has made historic air-to-air kills with both nations.
On Mar. 3, 2026, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that the RAF’s F-35Bs made their first air-to-air kills.

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The U.S. and Israel have taken out a significant portion of Iran’s drone infrastructure and weapons launchers in Operation Epic Fury, resulting in what two top American defense officials said Wednesday is a noticeable reduction of deadly drone and missile deployments by Iranian military forces over a recent 24-hour timeframe.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine supplied updates at the Pentagon about the war against Iran and suggested that military activities will further intensify.

On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched major, ongoing strikes against Iran — including killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials. In response, Iran has launched strikes against U.S. military sites, Israel, and economic and civilian targets in Arab Gulf states. The scale of this war will have global consequences. As world leaders adjust to a new reality in the Middle East and what it means for their countries, we asked five experts to assess the international reaction.Read more below.

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Combined U.S. and Israeli air forces have established near-complete air superiority over Iranian airspace, as strikes continued into the sixth day of the renewed conflict that began Feb. 28, 2026.
The campaign follows the brief Twelve-Day War in June 2025, when Israel — later joined by limited U.S. support — targeted Iranian nuclear sites, missile facilities and air defenses. That earlier clash, which ended in a U.S.

The Army is granting more direct commissions to civilians in high-tech fields like cyber, artificial intelligence, and space. The majority will come in as company grade officers and will be assigned to operational units, officials said.
The plan to put these new soldiers in uniform is an expansion of a program that directly commissioned four Silicon Valley executives into the Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels last June. Those four joined a program the Army called “Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.

In his 2025 article, “Start Making Sense, Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration,” Joshua Rovner argued Trump’s flexible approach to a grand strategy could be a strategic problem in the event of war. A year later, amidst an escalating conflict in the Middle East, we asked Joshua to revisit his argument.

The Office of Budget Responsibility says an increase in defence spending is now “necessary” amid the geopolitical unrest.

Despite seeing phrases like “World War Three” trending online, we are not in a world war But it does raise the question: what actually constitutes a world war? #ww3 #middleeast #war

Operation Epic Fury has seen extensive U.S. military action against the Iranian regime within Iran’s borders. Precision air and naval strikes have struck command and control centers, ballistic missile sites, and even Iranian Navy vessels. While these types of military actions have been seen in modern combat, the Pentagon confirmed an action that the United States hasn’t conducted in decades: a submarine torpedo kill.

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A legendary Reconnaissance Marine who saved his nine-man team during an ambush in South Vietnam is one step closer to receiving the Medal of Honor.
The Senate has passed a bill that would waive the award’s time requirement for retired Maj. James Capers Jr., who was shot twice and suffered 17 shrapnel wounds and other injuries during the April 1967 ambush. Not only did Capers lead his team to safety, but he twice tried to get out of the helicopter carrying the rest of his teammates so that it would be light enough to take off, and had to be pulled back inside by his men.
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The United States Navy’s submarine service is easily the most powerful ever fielded in the history of submarine warfare.
Consisting of Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, and Ohio-class boats, this all-nuclear force is silent and deadly, prowling the world’s waterways without anybody the wiser.
Related: Why America’s World War II torpedoes were horribleWhile the unlimited range and the quiet, very stealthy nature of these combat vessels makes them incredibly dangerous, their armament plays the biggest part in making them the most lethal killing machines traversing the oceans today.

More than 80 years ago, the USS Yorktown took a pair of torpedo hits from the Japanese submarine I-168 and slipped to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. She came to rest nearly three miles down, taking 141 of her crew with her.
The rest of her story—the Coral Sea, the improbable 72-hour repair at Pearl Harbor, the strikes that sent three Japanese carriers to the bottom at Midway—is well documented. What wasn’t as well-documented was the massive mural painted somewhere deep in her guts, a mural that depicted the ship’s entire story.

A US submarine, far from the Iranian theater, sank an Iranian ship with a torpedo, the first since WWII.
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US-based drone manufacturer Neros Technologies has set up a UK subsidiary and plans to invest up to £10m ($13m) over five years.

Ecuadorian and U.S. forces have started a joint operation against drug trafficking groups in the South American country, U.S. Southern Command said Tuesday evening.
The operations inside Ecuador are targeting “narco-terrorist” groups that are designated terrorist organizations, SOUTHCOM said. The new mission is the first one announced by the U.S. military since troops returned to a former base in Ecuador this winter and the first ground operation in South America since the raid to capture Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro.

L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber lay out the continuing lies from lying psychopaths on the Ukraine War.
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In October 1859, a small town at the junction of two rivers became the focal point of one of the most dramatic and consequential events in American history.
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, was brief, violent, and ultimately unsuccessful. Yet its impact was enormous. The raid deepened sectional divisions between North and South, heightened fears of slave rebellion, and accelerated the nation’s slide toward civil war.

Watch live as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine hold a press conference on U.S.–Israel military attack on Iran.

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American political support for Israel has declined to its lowest point in decades.

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The Cassowary Vex mission marked the first deployment of a commercial-built hypersonic testbed developed under the Hypersonic High-Cadence Advanced Testing program.

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In contemporary South Asian crises, velocity matters more than military power. Velocity means how fast responsibility is assigned, actions are authorized, limited operations are executed, and a dominant narrative is established before diplomatic intervention. Rather than focusing only on military capability, velocity is about the speed of coordinated action. Countries that move swiftly to shape events gain political advantages, even if their material strength is less.Pakistan’s post-2025 defense reorganization, in line with the 27th amendment to its constitution, acknowledges this shift.

Congress has unintentionally shifted the burden of preventing an unconstitutional war squarely onto the military. By failing to exercise its war powers, it has positioned the American military as a firewall made of parchment between itself and the White House. Democratic members of Congress and the Senate have issued solemn warnings regarding unlawful orders and disobedience, hoping the military will do what Congress hasn’t: prevent an unconstitutional war.This is not the right path.

The Israeli Air Force has reported the successful shootdown of an Iranian Air Force Yak-130 combat trainer over the capital Tehran, as part of its sustained military offensive launched alongside the Untied States on February 28 which is aimed specifically at toppling the Iranian government and installing a Western-aligned replacement. The shootdown, if confirmed, would represent the first ever achieved by the F-35 against a manned aircraft, making it the second fighter of its generation to have achieved this.

A 3D render published by the Israeli Air Force appears to show the destruction of an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Shahab 3 medium range ballistic missile and its launcher during attacks on Iran, which were initiated by Israel and the Untied States on February 28.

The United States’ policy of not providing fighter aircraft to Ukraine during earlier stages of the country’s long conflict with Russia, which began in February 2014, was recently highlighted for criticism by U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General (ret) David Deptula.

Sal Mercogliano – historian, former merchant mariner and instructor in maritime industry policy talks about global shipping, booming Savannah port and lack of skilled technicians in that industry.
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Satellite images of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have indicated major damage from Iranian ballistic missile strikes, and possibly from strikes by single use attack drones. Iran has launched by far the largest simultaneous set of attacks on U.S. bases across the Middle East in history, with these having begun on February 28 after the United States and Israel initiated large scale attacks on targets across the country, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other figures in the country’s political and military leadership. Al Udeid is the primary hub of U.S.

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Guest post by Carmen D. Villani Jr. originally at Patriot Post
In recent weeks, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has come under attack by politicians in the Virginia Legislature through House Bills #1374 and #1377. These baseless bills attempt to once again falsely portray the problem at VMI as being an institutionally racist and sexist school that resists change. The ill-advised corrective action being called for is a potential radical modification to the VMI Board of Visitors (BOV) make-up and another investigation.

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March 3, 2026
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – The Department of War announced the death of four U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who were supporting Operation Epic Fury. The soldiers died March 1st, in Kuwait at the Port of Shuaiba, during an unmanned aircraft system attack. All Soldiers were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, Des Moines, Iowa. The incident is under investigation.
     “We honor our fallen Heroes, who served fearlessly and selflessly in defense of our nation. Their sacrifice, and the sacrifices of their families, will never be forgotten,” said Lt. Gen.

The Defense Department has identified four of the six service members who were killed over the weekend by an Iranian attack. All four Reserve soldiers were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, based out of Des Moines, Iowa. 
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, were killed on March 1 in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait by an Iranian drone attack, defense officials announced on Tuesday.

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Amazon Web Services is grappling with widespread service disruptions this week after drone strikes severely damaged three of the cloud provider’s data centers in the Middle East during a surge of intense military actions in the region.

They’ve been around for every major United States military conflict since the Revolutionary War.
They’ve put themselves in just as much danger as any service member, sometimes more. These warriors do it all without complaint, too, all in exchange for no pay. All they want is just some good belly scratches, unconditional love, and full food and water bowls.
It’s a good bargain for everything these U.S. military dogs do for their country.
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Army Staff Sgt. Justin Williams calls his most recent military dog, Arina, his sister in arms.

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The Defense Innovation Unit successfully launched a 3D-printed hypersonic testbed manufactured by a commercial vendor on Friday as part of an effort to broaden the Pentagon’s ability to try out the complex, high-speed platforms.
During the mission — dubbed Cassowary Vex — the DART AE technology demonstrator developed by Australian company Hypersonix was deployed into a suborbital environment via Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) launch vehicle.

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Tensions between China and Japan have been heating up in recent months, sparked in November by a statement from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that Beijing interpreted as suggesting that Japan would respond militarily if China attacked Taiwan. Takaichi has pledged to increase Japan’s defense spending, and a major electoral victory in February has strengthened her position. We asked four experts to assess the risks.Read more below.Yun SunSenior Fellow and Director of the China Program at the Stimson CenterIn 2026, China could attempt to push back further in a number of domains.

For as long as troops have loaded bombs onto planes, they’ve marked them with scrawled messages or even their own names.
That tradition appeared to continue this week among sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln, as pictures released by U.S. Central Command showed. A series of photos posted on Department of Defense websites showed sailors on the Lincoln arranging GBU-31 bombs on the ship’s deck, in preparation for loading onto an F/A–18 strike fighter. Navy Aviation Ordnancemen, or AOs, huddled over the weapons in their distinctive red vests.