In 2024, Tom Johansmeyer wrote “Why Natural Catastrophes Will Always Be Worse than Cyber Catastrophes,” where he laid to rest beliefs that cyber security disasters cause more widespread damage than natural disasters, putting the rush to focus on cyber issues into perspective for the reader. A year later, we asked him to revisit his argument based on new data from both cyber and natural disasters. Image: Master Sgt.
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If you’ve never heard of a soldier armed with an “espontoon,” that might be because there’s only one in the entire U.S. Army, and it’s held for strictly ceremonial use in the service’s most hallowed infantry unit.
But the little-known ceremonial weapon will be front and center for next month’s Army-Navy game, depicted on the top of the football helmets that players from the U.S. Military Academy will wear in their annual showdown with the U.S. Naval Academy.
U.S. Special Operations Command issued a solicitation Wednesday as it looks for a contractor to train its forces to build and fly “first-person-view” drones.
Small unmanned aerial systems such as FPV platforms are playing a major role in the Ukraine-Russia war, among other conflicts, and SOCOM is looking to enhance its prowess in this area.
The Coast Guard is looking for a new boot camp facility after it exceeded its recruiting goal and expects to expand its force by another 15,000 personnel over the next several years.
The service is considering existing sites that can be adapted to its recruit training needs, according to the Coast Guard website. The request includes specific requirements, including lodging for 1,200 recruits, dining and medical facilities, classrooms, a pool and up to 250 acres of land.
The salaries in the Ukrainian military have risen significantly since the outbreak of large-scale hostilities in 2022.
Navy Lt. j.g. Alfred Lerch had a relatively short career for a naval aviator, earning his naval wings in 1944 and serving aboard the USS Intrepid in 1945 with, as he described it, only one “really good crack at” the Imperial Japanese Navy. But in that good crack, on April 16, 1945, Alfred Lerch went from zero enemy downs to seven in just 13 minutes, making him one of the fastest fighter aces of all time.
For U.S. intelligence analysts, collecting data isn’t their primary challenge — it’s surviving the daily flood of it. Geospatial imagery, open-source intelligence, signals intercepts, and unstructured chatter pour in at a scale that no human workforce can possibly process unaided.
“There is too much data out there and not enough analysts available to sift through it,” said John Urby, a former Army intelligence analyst and now senior director of business development at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT).
CAE’s Defence and Security division has reported revenue of C$566.6m ($404.3m) in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 (Q2 FY26).
The US Army has selected Anduril Industries’ Lattice software platform for its Integrated Battle Command System Manoeuvre (IBCS-M) programme.
A Turkish Air Force C-130E has crashed near the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan in the afternoon of 11 November 2025.