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The British Army’s new Boxer armoured vehicle is due to reach its initial operating capability by Q4 2025, with more than 600 being acquired.

Women who served in the military between 1951 and 1976 were subject to discharge if they became pregnant. A new bill would retroactively compensate hundreds, if not thousands, of those women who were “wrongfully and involuntarily separated” from the military over more than two decades.
Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) introduced the Women Involuntary Separated Earnings Remittance (WISER) Act last week to “rectify a wrong perpetuated against women servicemembers” who were discharged due to an executive order by former President Harry Truman.

AAM Defence is a winner in the Innovation category in the 2024 ArmyTechnology Excellence Awards.

It is the early 1960s and America stands at a crossroads in Southeast Asia. President Lyndon B. Johnson is in the midst of a re-election campaign while attempting to grapple with an escalating situation in Vietnam. The South Vietnamese government appears increasingly weak and unstable as the Viet Cong are increasing the tempo of their attacks. As the president weighs his options, many of his top advisers convene in classified rooms in the bowels of the Pentagon basement to play a series of wargames.

Hamas’ surprise assault against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, marked a watershed moment for U.S. Central Command’s still-maturing Digital Falcon Oasis exercise series.
And now during the next push of rapid technology experimentation that’s approaching nearly a year later, Centcom aims to ramp it up and expand its reach by inviting personnel from across more of the military to “plug in,” according to three senior defense officials.

The Pentagon is investing half a billion dollars to research medical issues that disproportionately affect women in military service, officials said Monday.
The initiative was announced by First Lady Jill Biden at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City.

Epirus is slated to provide a new drone zapper to the Marine Corps before the end of the year, the company announced Monday.
The high-power microwave weapon prototype, known as Leonidas Expeditionary, is being developed under a $5.5 million contract as part of the Defense Department’s Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) initiative.
The Office of Naval Research, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab and Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) are also involved in the effort, according to a press release.
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More Marines are staying in the Corps past their first contract than at any other time in the last 14 years.
The Marine Corps is nearing the end of Fiscal Year 2024 with the highest number of first-term Marines who have reenlisted since 2010, Corps officials announced on Monday.
The increase in retention reflects a change in the Marine Corps’ strategy from “recruit and replace” to one that aims to “invest and retain” the most capable Marines, a Corps news release says.
Traditionally, about three-quarters of Marines who enlist do not stay in the Corps beyond their first contract.

‘No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We’re in charge now.’

In a 30-minute interview with Judge Napolitano on September 18, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and critic of America’s wars, described a recent event in which Pentagon chief Gen. Lloyd Austin told President Biden that, in Wilkerson’s words, “the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war,” meaning Ukraine and Israel.

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An amateur astronomer has reportedly captured images of classified U.S. spacecraft.