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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.***RussiaThe Russo-Ukrainian peace negotiation merry-go-round continues but ultimately will leave everyone back where they started.The latest flurry of activity began two weeks ago when Ukraine and Europe were blindsided by a 28-point peace proposal produced between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian interlocutors.
More than 100 sailors were sleeping a few dozen yards from the point of impact where a merchant vessel slammed into the steel sides of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on Feb. 12. Another group of eight sailors was on duty in a compartment just 10 feet from the impact, according to a Navy investigation released on Thursday.
Both groups survived unscathed, narrowly avoiding disaster.
“A small change in the timing of the collision or the angle of the impact could have caused catastrophic results,” Rear Adm. Todd E.
It’s a big deal whenever an aircraft carrier loses a plane during a deployment. In a six month span while deployed to the Red Sea this year, the USS Harry S. Truman lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets, including one that was accidentally shot down by another Navy ship in a friendly fire incident.
On Thursday, the Navy released investigations into the losses of each aircraft during the Truman’s deployment from September 2024 to June 2025 that revealed a variety of errors and poor decisions that led to the incidents.
Also Thursday, the Navy released a separate investigation into the Feb.
The Royal Navy is “vulnerable to promoting to
Editor’s Note: Of course, our question is here at AFP – why are these drones needed in the Middle East? Are we entering a new conflict?
The U.S. military has fielded its first squadron of one-way attack drones to the Middle East under Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS), according to United States Central Command (CENTCOM).
The unit operates Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones, derived from Shahed models used by Tehran and Moscow. The U.S.
It’s no coincidence that decorated military pilot and former Defense Department executive and legislative liaison Mike Madsen is joining Obviant as the data intelligence startup’s first vice president for national security at a time when the government is moving to modernize the services’ approach to buying weapons and technology.
“There’s a humongous appetite for acquisition reform,” Madsen told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Tuesday. “So, the time is right with this disruptive mindset right now to improve things and to digitize things.
In a way, we are all students of American history, especially most of the writers here at We Are The Mighty. In another, more specific way, there are people who are actually dedicating years of their lives to study U.S. history in an academic environment. For those people, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is offering financial support to help them continue their important work and to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The US military is rebuilding old bases and try
A little more than 60% of Americans support using military force against suspected drug traffickers, according to new polling data, as the Department of Defense continues to carry out airstrikes on vessels in the waters around Latin America.
That’s according to this year’s Reagan National Defense Survey, an annual polling of roughly 2,500 Americans on issues tied to national security, the military and geopolitical events. Of the respondents, 7% identified as veterans.