Lani Kass, RCDefense
We simply don’t know who was looped into those sensitive “chats” by Biden’s team—deliberately or inadvertently—during the most perilous times since the 1962 Cuban…
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The F-47 program will certainly run into technical hurdles, unforeseen costs, and schedule overruns.
The first time someone suggests geo-baching, it doesn’t sound that bad. Maybe you’ve already been living apart half the time thanks to TDYs and deployments. Maybe your last PCS ripped the kids out of a great school, and you swore you’d never do that to them again. Maybe you’re just so close to locking in that civilian job you’ve been chasing for years, and you can’t justify walking away from it for another temporary move.
So you have the talk. You and your spouse go over the pros and cons.
For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in self-defense, defense of merchants, and defense of allied territory against the Houthis, a Yemeni militant group that sought to deny the Red Sea to global commerce. And yet if we take the goal of Operation Prosperity Guardian as being the resumption of commercial traffic through a key global artery in support of the rules-based international order, it can only be judged as a strategic defeat.
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All over the eastern front, Ukrainian troops are in retreat. As the Ukrainian Military struggles to reconsolidate and hold their lines, soldiers and their commanders are growing concerned over ineffective command and control, lack of logistic support, and staggering casualty rates.
“We don’t know what the units around us are doing. The LOC (line of contact) is quite fluid, when we detect gaps in the Russian lines and we request permission to move forward and fill the gaps, we don’t get quick answers from our command.
President Donald Trump has picked Joseph Jewell to be the next assistant secretary of defense for science and technology.
Jewell’s nomination was sent to Capitol Hill Monday and will be considered by the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov.
An experienced aerospace engineer, Jewell has spent decades in both academia and government working on hypersonics research and development.
When the call went out over social media that Army Sgt. Derrick Bishop, of the 82nd Airborne Division, needed a bone marrow transplant, thousands responded in person and online.
On Monday, more than 1,000 soldiers and veterans showed up at Fort Bragg, North Carolina for a bone marrow donor screening, and more than 1,000 others submitted requests online for test kits, said Chad Ballance, the senior recruiter for the Defense Department’s marrow donor program, Salute to Life.
Pictures shared on social media on Monday showed the outpouring of support from soldiers at Fort Bragg.
The Defense Department will offer its deferred resignation program to eligible DOD civilian employees April 7-14, according to a new memo.
Voluntary early retirement authority will also be offered.
The initiatives, ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, come as the Pentagon is looking to reduce its reduce civilian workforce and implement the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts.
“The DoD DRP provides a generous opportunity for employees to enter a paid leave status for several months, prior to resigning or retiring.
Three 3rd Infantry Division soldiers recovered Monday from a Lithianian bog were from Illinois, California and Guam, the Army said Tuesday afternoon.
The three soldiers were Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr., 25, of Joliet, Illinois; Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California; and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of Dededo, Guam. All were assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team based out of Fort Stewart, Georgia.
A fourth soldier was found Tuesday but the Army has not yet released their identity.
“This loss is simply devastating,” said Maj. Gen.