For over seventy years, U.S. military power has formed the backbone of Europe’s security architecture. American leadership enabled the continent to prioritize political integration and economic development while relying on a trans-Atlantic alliance to deter external threats. That arrangement is now under increasing strain. In his second term, President Donald Trump has pushed European allies to commit up to 5 percent of their gross domestic product to defense and has signaled that the United States may no longer provide a conventional military backstop on the continent.
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The United States Air Force presents “What Makes a Man: The Story of the United States Air Force Academy,” a mid-1960s informational color film encouraging men to join the Colorado Springs campus.
The film opens with the rhetorical question posed in the title, and the viewer is asked whether stone and metal buildings make a man, or does it come from knowledge, action, competition, or something else?
All the while, images of young cadets and academic and athletic life fill the screen. “Does running make a man” asks the narrator at mark 02:28. It helps.
Approximately 220,000 veterans reside in Los Angeles County, and inside the downtown area of Los Angeles is a crucial outpatient VA medical center. As part of the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, this clinic plays a central role in serving veterans in the DTLA area, offering a variety of on-site preventative and interventional services.
Mental health care is a significant focus of the downtown VA medical center in Los Angeles.
Delays in finalizing design for the Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) have put the program behind schedule, limiting the number of flight tests the service can conduct before it declares the weapon operational, according to a new report from the U.S. government’s watchdog organization.
Air Force officials overseeing HACM told the Government Accountability Office that the program’s first design review was held in September 2024 — six months later than expected — because more time was needed to nail down the missile’s hardware design.
After an informative 45-day trial run, the Department of the Navy is getting set to expand its rollout of emerging AI capabilities for sailors, Marines and civilians to speedily adopt in support of their daily operations — via its new DoN GPT tool.
“This is a new way for us on how to rapidly innovate and rapidly prototype,” Jacob Glassman, who serves as senior technical advisor to the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, told DefenseScoop.
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The roughly 700 Marines recently ordered to deploy to Los Angeles have not yet completed training on less-than-lethal weapons and training on the Standing Rules for Use of Force, which governs the use of force for military personnel within the United States, said a spokesperson for U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM.
It is not yet clear when the Marines will complete the training, or when they will join NORTHCOM’s Task Force 51, which is overseeing U.S. troops responding to the ongoing immigration protests in Los Angeles, the spokesperson said.
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After almost a decade in the making, the Army is pivoting from its airborne electronic jammer, among other changes to the service’s electronic warfare offerings, according to a top official.
The service has decided to move on from the current Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Air Large (MFEW-AL) platform and approach. MFEW is the Army’s only airborne electronic warfare — with limited cyber — capability organic to combat aviation brigades to support maneuver commanders on the ground.
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