All four Navy aircrew members involved in a midair collision Sunday over an Idaho airshow survived ejecting from their planes, Navy officials confirmed Monday, an outcome that several retired fighter pilots described as extraordinary.
The mishap came when two Navy E/A-18G Growlers appeared to become stuck together in midair during a demonstration flight over Mountain Home Air Force Base. All four crew of the two-person jets ejected almost instantly as the planes stalled, including the two aviators whose jet had become stuck underneath the other plane.
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U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is focused on moving quickly to get technology into the hands of special operators, a senior acquisitions official with the command said on Monday.
“We are not building aircraft carriers here,” said David Breede, SOCOM’s deputy director for acquisition. “We are not launching million-dollar satellites here. What we are doing is integrating the latest technology into systems that can be fielded quickly for our quick turn prototyping, quick turn testing, validation — get them to the field.
TAMPA, Fla. — Officials across the services are racing to get disparate military platforms to talk to each other, an effort buoyed by the idea that the speedy transfer of information across multiple domains and automated systems will give U.S. forces an advantage on the battlefield.
For America’s most elite forces, the development of such a network — one that doesn’t rely on equipment-specific software — is not moving fast enough, according to one of U.S. Special Operations Command’s top acquisition officials.
Other parts of the military have echoed those concerns.
The Pentagon just released its budget request for the upcoming fiscal year and, if an organization’s budget reflects what it values, cyber operations are not a top priority. While President Donald Trump’s national cyber strategy affirms that this administration will “act swiftly, deliberately, and proactively” and no longer “tinker at the edges” of America’s cybersecurity problem, the Pentagon bureaucracy does not appear to have gotten the memo.
This video describes the military situation in
In the 1960s, America underwent the trials of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, both of which Col. Paris Davis took head-on. He was one of the first Black officers to earn the coveted Green Beret of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces.
“I said, ‘Look, you can call me Capt. Davis, but you can’t call me a n****r,’” he said of his experience as a Black officer. Despite the discrimination that he faced, Davis was a bona fide hero.
Dr. Ryan Burke is a Professor of Military & Strategic Studies (MSS) at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA).
Dr. Burke teaches classes on international security studies, military power projection, military affairs, and defense policy, per the Academy website.
Dr. Burke has a long academic resume and has combat experience.
Dr. Burke wrote what is in my opinion a seditious oped at Real Clear Defense. You can read it here.
To quote his oped, “When ostensibly serious people refer to the Department of Defense as the “Department of War,” we are no longer being precise.
An RAF chef who helped feed hundreds of deploye
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Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.