Author: Michael

Your adversaries and closest allies might not need nuclear weapons to achieve deterrence — they just need you to believe they could build them at any moment. Nuclear proliferation is once again in the news. Iran is moving exceedingly close to a nuclear weapon. U.S. allies are calling for nuclear weapons with renewed fervor too. On March 7, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that it was now time to “reach for opportunities related to nuclear weapons.” South Korean leaders have made similar public calls for exploring the nuclear option.

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Defense contractor Anduril has developed a new torpedo that’s designed to be launched by uncrewed systems, the company is set to announce Monday.
Anduril describes its new Copperhead technology as a “high-speed, software-defined family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) built for delivery by autonomous systems.”
The munition variant has been dubbed Copperhead-M.
“Despite the rapid advances in autonomous vehicles across air, surface, and subsea domains, torpedoes aren’t built at scale and production remains frozen in Cold War-era designs.

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The recent election of new board members for the U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, saw the clean sweep election of anti-DEI candidates who ran on a platform of transparency and the agenda to rebuild the Air Force Academy to its original mission – to train warrior leaders.
In response, the incumbent AOG Board self-appointed two more members aligned with the Biden administrations anti-American priorities in order to dilute the power of the newly-elected members by USAFA graduates.

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The U.S. Navy welcomed a new USS Iowa into its service this weekend. The new nuclear submarine, SSN-797, was commissioned on Saturday, April 5, not in Iowa, but at the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut.
The commissioning ceremony — with cold and dreary weather, as many speakers noted —  included its captain, Cmdr. Gregory Coy, and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, among others. Saturday’s event was Phelan’s first commissioning as secretary.

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Yemeni Houthis showcasing missiles. The sign reads, “surface to surface cruise missile” in Arabic. (IRNA)

Iran has ordered its military personnel to leave Yemen amidst the ongoing US bombing campaign in the country, The Telegraph reported on April 3. The newspaper’s source added that regime officials’ concerns over the Trump administration have eclipsed discussions on Tehran’s regional proxies, dominating every meeting and sidelining previous strategic priorities.

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