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Peter Layton, RealClearDefense
Today’s air forces are designed around highly sophisticated, technically impressive combat aircraft and this is their Achillies heel.

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Jon Harper, DScoop
Anduril’s Lattice platform will support the Army’s Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver program, according to the contractor.

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The US Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype is putting a new capability powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to the test.

Selene Martin is a Marine Corps veteran spouse and AVP of Corporate Affairs at CareSource.
Military families in Atlanta and Tampa will see something different during the 2025 TRICARE Open Season: a new choice in how they receive care. 
Through the Department of Defense’s Competitive Plans Demonstration (CPD), eligible families can enroll in TRICARE Prime Demo by CareSource Military & Veterans (CSMV), a health plan designed to meet the realities of military life with more local support. 
TRICARE remains a critical part of military readiness, and this system is continuing to evolve.

The United States lost the war against a weapon that almost everyone knows by its acronym: the IED or improvised explosive device. Despite technological innovation, training, and tactical brilliance, attacks persisted. Tactical adaptations failed to prevent strategic defeat. IED components remained cheap and ubiquitous. Manufacturing knowledge spread faster than defenses could adapt. Most critically, the countermeasures never managed to close the risk-cost imbalance. Each new or improved defensive kit pushed the United States deeper into a cost trap.

Can America deter China if its warships are stuck in port? Probably not. And the problem is made worse by chronic shipbuilding delays. This means the U.S. Navy is forced to rely more heavily on its legacy fleet, which requires more maintenance. And neither the Navy’s domestic shipyards nor its overseas facilities can meet current demand. Without immediate action, the Navy risks missing force design and operational readiness goals in critical regions like the Indo-Pacific.

New images from Dalian shipyard in China’s Liaoning province have confirmed the installation of a nuclear reactor containment structure on the country’s next generation aircraft carrier, which provides a key indicator of a nuclear propulsion system, the integration of which has long been speculated. The structure closely resembles that on the U.S. Navy’s own nuclear powered supercarriers.

The U.S. Air Force has confirmed plans to significantly reduce procurements of F-35A fifth generation fighters for the remainder of the decade, as the service is forced to contend with growing strain on its budget from a wide range of competing programs. A new plan for fighter procurements provided to Congress has indicated that the overall fighter fleet will contract, at least temporarily, while F-35 procurements will remain far below previously planned levels. The Air Force previously planned to procure F-35s at a rate of 110 per year, before cutting this to 80, 60 and finally 48.

4/23/1983 President Reagan and Nancy Reagan honor the victims of the bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut Lebanon at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Public Domain

Bloomberg and Israeli media are reporting the U.S. is planning to spend $500 million to build a vast new base on the Gaza border to implement President Trump’s Middle East peace plans.
Israeli officials familiar with initial discussions said the facility would serve international forces stationed in Gaza to help uphold the current Trump-brokered ceasefire and could accommodate several thousand troops.