The transformation of former ISIS jihadi terrorist Mohammad al-Julani, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, the recently-installed leader of Syria, is complete. The new suit and haircut completes the visual transformation, and the U.S.-led narrative has done the rest.
Al-Sharaa played basketball with U.S. officials recently — on the court with United States Central Command’s Adm. Brad Cooper and Brig.-Gen. Kevin Lambert.
Al-Sharaa is meeting with President Trump at The White House today in a historic meeting.
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The Myanmar Air Force has become the first foreign operator of the new Russian Mi-38Ttransport helicopter, and brought three of them into service on November 7 alongside two Chinese Y-8F-200W transport jets. These procurements are expected to significantly enhance logistical capabilities. The country’s armed forces are currently involved in a protracted counterinsurgency campaign against paramiltiary groups supported, financed and armed by multiple countries in the Western world, with the Air Force’s advanced airlift capabilities providing its forces with a distinct advantage.
An amendment to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement went into effect Monday, officially mandating that all Defense Department solicitations and contracts include requirements for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC 2.0).
And while the road to get CMMC 2.0 across the finish line has been six years in the making, there are still disparities among the defense industrial base’s readiness to validate the cybersecurity controls required by the program.
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Popular culture often distorts autonomy into science fiction caricatures. This framing obscures the real challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. military: autonomy as a layered, incremental capability, always shaped by mission context.Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb,” in which over a hundred drones conducted a coordinated, semi-autonomous attack, illustrates this reality. Operators tasked and launched the systems, but autonomy enabled distributed navigation, deconfliction, and timing. It wasn’t a leap to science fiction.