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Author: Michael
Anyone who played a military first-person shooter video game in the late 2000s/early 2010s is familiar with the Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle, more commonly referred to as the SCAR (SOFCAR didn’t sound as cool). Developed by FN, the rifle was selected by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in both 5.56 NATO and 7.62 NATO as the Mk 16 SCAR-L (Light) and Mk 17 SCAR-H (Heavy), respectively.
A mere 15 years later, FN announced the end of the SCAR’s production.
The U.S. military is the most sophisticated fighting force in modern history. However, that doesn’t mean there have not been moments of unforced failure or unexpected setbacks. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Chinese intervention in Korea, and the fall of Kabul as recently as 2021: all of these episodes were driven by a failure to account for the capabilities, technologies, and cunning of an adversary.
Lockheed Martin is partnering with Google Public Sector to integrate Google’s generative AI technologies into its AI Factory.
Leonardo DRS raised the lower end of its FY25 revenue outlook, after registering an 18% revenue growth in the third quarter (Q3) to $960m.
The U.S. Army is still investing in tanks. In fact, it is requesting $723.5 million in its fiscal year 2026 budget to build and develop the next Abrams upgrade: the M1E3.
That isn’t exactly what many expected to see in the wake of drone warfare’s rise. After all, even advanced Western tanks are taking losses in Ukraine. Hundreds of videos of tank turrets being blasted skyward from top-attack munitions and FPV drone strikes have sparked a growing debate about whether manned, tracked armor still has a place on the battlefield.
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Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what comes after liberalism. Yet inside the military profession, this conversation is either ignored or waved away with half-measures, critiques of Samuel P. Huntington, and calls for more civil-military engagement. What’s missing is a serious reckoning with how a post-liberal political order, should one ever arise, could reshape the military profession itself.
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A new footage has shown an U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet fighter appearing to score a simulated gun kill in an engagement with a British F-35B, as part of Dissimilar Air Combat Training during joint exercises between the two countries. The F-35B was operating from the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in the Pacific, after the warship was deployed there as part of Operation Highmast to test the British Royal Navy’s ability to project power and sustain a carrier strike group in the far abroad.