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Without a functioning federal government, a crucial part of the U.S. military’s readiness is rapidly eroding.
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As the Marine Corps passes it 250th birthday, it has an excellent opportunity to reinvent itself
The Myanmar Air Force has become the first foreign operator of the new Russian Mi-38Ttransport helicopter, and brought three of them into service on November 7 alongside two Chinese Y-8F-200W transport jets. These procurements are expected to significantly enhance logistical capabilities. The country’s armed forces are currently involved in a protracted counterinsurgency campaign against paramiltiary groups supported, financed and armed by multiple countries in the Western world, with the Air Force’s advanced airlift capabilities providing its forces with a distinct advantage.
An amendment to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement went into effect Monday, officially mandating that all Defense Department solicitations and contracts include requirements for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC 2.0).
And while the road to get CMMC 2.0 across the finish line has been six years in the making, there are still disparities among the defense industrial base’s readiness to validate the cybersecurity controls required by the program.
Popular culture often distorts autonomy into science fiction caricatures. This framing obscures the real challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. military: autonomy as a layered, incremental capability, always shaped by mission context.Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb,” in which over a hundred drones conducted a coordinated, semi-autonomous attack, illustrates this reality. Operators tasked and launched the systems, but autonomy enabled distributed navigation, deconfliction, and timing. It wasn’t a leap to science fiction.
In the summer of 57 BCE, Julius Caesar found himself deep in Belgic territory, his legions stretched thin and unaware of the trap ahead. On the banks of the Sambre River, tens of thousands of Nervii warriors burst from the hedgerows, catching Rome’s finest with their shields lowered and their helmets off. In minutes, order dissolved into chaos. What followed was not a triumph of tactics, but of something far older and more human — the heartbeat of cohesion and the courage of a commander who refused to break.
If past is prologue, the Pentagon will soon release its annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. Commonly known as the China military power report, this publication is more than just another report from the Department of Defense. It plays a vital role in the public’s awareness of the world’s largest military build-up since World War II, which Beijing often shrouds in opacity. In 1999, Congress required the department to provide a yearly report on China’s “current and future military strategy.
The British Armed Forces have deployed Royal Marine special forces from the 42 and 47 Commando units as part of a Special Operations Maritime Task Group to simulate covert boarding operations against enemy ships, coastal aids, and the seizure of oil rigs. Exercises are taking place in the Eastern Baltic Sea, close to the Ukrainian theatre where Royal Marines have also been involved in open hostilities with Russian forces.