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Earlier this year the Army Futures Command was returned to the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, where its essential functions resided before AFC’s establishment as a separate major command in Austin, Texas. “You can push those people back out to the field, generate combat power at the echelons that we need, instead of potentially having staff that is too big, or multiple headquarters, paying for multiple general officers’ homes,” according to a Defense official. (Ref: Hegseth issues Army a lengthy to-do list – Defense One).

The American people voted for President Trump, three times, by overwhelming margins. Americans voted for a shake up of ‘the blob’ in Washington, D.C., the name given to the national security apparatus that keeps the ‘forever wars’ going, that promotes itself, and feeds the NGO, think tank, defense industry machine year after year, while the American people suffer.
The America First movement, or MAGA, is ascendent in American politics. Many in ‘the blob’ don’t like that, and are making their opinions know in the press.

President Donald Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve on Monday to serve as the next vice chief of staff of the Army and recommended his appointment to the grade of general.
An official hearing date has not been made public, but if confirmed by the Senate, LaNeve will replace Gen. James Mingus, the long-time innovator who was sworn in as the Army’s No. 2 general officer and principal deputy to Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in January 2024 under the Biden administration.
The announcement follows an unusual gathering of hundreds of top U.S.

For a generation that lived the war in Afghanistan one grid square at a time, the war now feels like a series of dots on a map. A patrol base carved out of hardpan soil. A culvert on a highway that never felt safe. A ridge where the radio went quiet.
Nathan Kehler knows the pull of those dots. When he and a group of fellow veterans wanted to record the war they experienced, they knew all their stories would be easiest to see laid out on a map. They launched Project Athena — a visual map connecting the memories of soldiers to the coordinates where they occurred.

President Donald Trump nominated a new general to take over the role of the second-highest-ranking military leader in the Army, a move that would replace a four-star that has spent less than two years in the job.
Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve as the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army on Monday, according to a notification to Congress. LaNeve currently serves as a senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 
If approved by the Senate, he would replace Gen. James Mingus, who has been serving as the Army’s number two since January 2024.

Shortly before his final flight over North Vietnam, Air Force Maj. Robert Lodge told his fellow airmen that if his plane ever went down, he would rather die than risk being captured and possibly divulging information that would endanger American aircrews.
Lodge had detailed knowledge of a highly classified system that allowed American fighters to detect enemy MiGs from beyond visual range, said retired Col. Chuck DeBellevue, who flew with Lodge with the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.

Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., proposed legislation that would set a clear U.S. government policy to prioritize military and security collaboration with allies across NATO’s eastern flank.
The seven-page bill, not yet published widely but shared with DefenseScoop on Monday, was motivated by multiple recent incidents where Russian drones and military jets reportedly violated some of those bordering nations’ airspace.
“Congressman Wilson is leading this legislation to support our NATO allies after numerous air incursions,” a senior official on the lawmaker’s team told DefenseScoop.

Bank of America and Rothschild & Co have secured the leading positions as financial advisers in Europe’s M&A sector.

A&O Shearman and CMS have emerged as the top legal advisers in terms of deal value and deal volume, respectively.

Goldman Sachs and Houlihan Lokey have emerged as the leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financial advisers in North America by value and volume, respectively,