The Air Force touts its True North program as a unique success in getting mental health support directly into some of its most stressful workplaces. Rather than expect airmen who need mental help support to take time away from their daily jobs to visit professionals in clinics and hospitals, the program embeds mental health and religious support teams directly in units, where airmen work.
But officials at Air Education and Training Command, or AETC, are now looking to cut the program, as part of cost-cutting across its civilian workforce.
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In 2021, Erica Lonergan wrote, “A Grand Strategy Based on Resilience,” where she argued the United States should focus more time and resources on anticipating and withstanding disruptive events and the ability to rapidly restore key functions in the wake of a crisis. Four years later, we asked Erica to reflect on her article.In your 2021 article, “A Grand Strategy Based on Resilience,” you argue for reorienting America’s grand strategy so it can more effectively anticipate and respond to adversary actions. Amid ongoing conflicts involving U.S.
When it comes to making movies about the real lives of military veterans, Hollywood tends to struggle with authenticity. But the new movie, “Sheepdog,” from Executive Producers Joe Newcomb (“Dallas Buyers Club”) and Brint Ryan (Ryan Media), started with input from actual combat veterans and a list of the nation’s best military-veteran support organizations to accurately portray a veteran’s daily battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
If you’ve ever heard someone say a meeting is at 1630 and then felt your brain do a small cartwheel, you have met the 24-hour clock. In the United States, we mostly live by the 12-hour clock, with a.m. and p.m. designating the morning and afternoon parts of the day. The armed forces do not (and yes, this includes the Coast Guard). They use what many Americans refer to as “military time.”
The choice isn’t about sounding tough or cool (the U.S. military is already cool).
India’s DRDO, in partnership with the IDS and Tri-Services, has introduced the Indian Radio Software Architecture (IRSA) standard 1.0.
The NATO CCDCOE has selected Oracle and its partner Druid Software for war gaming and cyber defence exercises.
To increase lethality at the small unit level, the U.S. Army is pursuing the Precision Grenadier System (PGS) to give soldiers a flexible weapon that can engage enemy troops behind cover, lightly armored vehicles, and even airborne drones. In May 2025, the Army awarded a $2 million contract to Barrett and MARS to continue work on their PGS submission, the 30mm Support Rifle System (SRS). FN America has since won its own contract to further develop its entry.
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