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The Pentagon describes Golden Dome for America as a “system of systems,” an integrated air and missile defense architecture that combines space-based sensors, orbital interceptors, ground systems, and a command network designed to defeat any aerial attack. Eighteen months after its founding executive order, the program broke ground on its first operational site. Its architecture remains so closely held that the Congressional Budget Office cannot fully price it, and cost estimates span from $252 billion to $3.6 trillion.

Military doctrine gives officers a clear rule for manifestly unlawful orders: Refuse them. It offers no comparable rule when lawful action appears to threaten the constitutional structure the military serves. The first response is neither refusal nor resignation, but rather deliberative friction.Deliberative friction is the professional duty to raise a credible constitutional concern in a form that remains attributable and survives the decision to execute.

Analogies for artificial intelligence abound. In recent years, analysts have likened the development of AI to the advent of electricity, the Industrial Revolution, contact with extraterrestrials, and at least fifty other things. One analogy, however, appears to have won out over the rest: AI is like nuclear weapons.This comparison is now ubiquitous in government rhetoric, policy debates, and media accounts about AI. The risks of advanced AI are equated with the existential risk posed by nuclear weapons. There are several references to AI development as a modern-day Manhattan Project. The U.S.

The Republic of China Minister of National Defence Wellington Koo has confirmed that there are no financial penalty provisions attached to the delayed delivery of 66 F-16 Block 70 fighters ordered in 2019, while stating that Taipei and Washington are discussing compensation measures for the delays. Koo said the F-16 transfer has reached the stage at which some of the aircraft are ready for delivery, with preparations for accepting the fighters proceeding according to the schedule established by the U.S. program office.

Oil prices are rising again after the U.S. rejected Iran’s latest proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz.

“I reject their proposal…I rejected their deal,” President Donald Trump said on Saturday, claiming that the Islamic Republic was only proposing an agreement because “they’re losing so badly.”

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Bulkeley, right, and USS Mason participate in a strait transit exercise.

British police have arrested five men near Royal Air Force Fairford after three suspicious vehicles were reported travelling towards the military airfield, which is a major operating hub for U.S. Air Force B-1B and B-52H strategic bombers. The men were initially arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and were subsequently also arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. British counterterrorism authorities are investigating whether the suspects were acting on behalf of a foreign state.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Photo: DoD / Chad J. McNeeley (Public Domain)

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum on September 28, 2026, directing U.S. Cyber Command and the entire Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) to mobilize every authorized asset, capability, and partnership to defend America’s 2026 election infrastructure from foreign interference.
The memo, addressed to the Commander of U.S.

A Rough Winter Is Coming for Americans Thanks to the Iran War – Americans are about to face an expensive winter, with higher costs for heating their homes, traveling home for the holidays, and shipping packages to loved ones. Those prices will skyrocket largely because of the war in Iran, with disruptions to oil and gas shipments raising fuel costs and, in turn, increasing prices for everything from airfares to goods.

The increases will differ by households, of course. A family that heats with oil, for example, will face a different bill than one that heats with electricity.

U.S. Africa Command is hustling to adopt AI assets, unmanned systems and other modern technology products as it pivots to do “more with less” of a physical force presence on and around the sprawling continent.
For example, “the command is examining commercially available vessel data and sensor technologies that could help identify illicit maritime activity, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and narcotics trafficking,” Africom’s first Chief Innovation Officer Lt. Col. Jared “CLiF” Bindl recently told DefenseScoop.