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Bagram Airfield was the gateway to Afghanistan for a generation of U.S. service members. The last U.S. troops quietly withdrew from the base in July 2021, shortly before the Taliban took control of the entire country.
Now the United States may be seeking to reclaim Bagram Airfield from the Taliban, President Donald Trump said on Thursday.
“We were going to keep Bagram, the big air base, one of the biggest air bases in the world,” Trump said. “We gave it to them for nothing. We’re trying to get it back, by the way, okay?  That could be a little breaking news.

Kirsten Davies, President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Department of Defense chief information officer, told lawmakers that she plans to shake up the Pentagon’s IT enterprise, if her nomination is confirmed.
The department faces major challenges as it looks to acquire new capabilities and address growing threats, Davies noted Thursday during her opening remarks at her confirmation hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“America’s warfighter readiness and lethality depend upon secure, resilient, modernized systems and innovative technical and cyber capabilities.

Almost everyone gets email forwards from their family. In the days before social media, people emailed the jokes, memes, and urban legends that populate Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok in the modern era. Nowadays, it’s mostly older people who stick to forwarding emails instead of sharing via social media.
What never changes is our loved ones who forward things to their veterans, wanting to know if something about the military or life in the military is true. The list you’re about to read first made the rounds during the Global War on Terror, but much of it still holds true.

The EU has invested €30m into a new private credit vehicle that will support SMEs operating in the European defence industry.

Marine veteran Monty Dahm has long wanted to build a replica of Tun Tavern, the legendary birthplace of the U.S. Marine Corps, near its original site in Philadelphia.
Earlier this month, he reached an agreement to buy a restaurant in Old City Philadelphia that he plans to rechristen as Tun Tavern, hopefully in time for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps’ founding this Nov. 10, he said.
“I’ve always wanted to do it in Philadelphia,” Dahm told Task & Purpose recently. “I’m a block-and-a-half away from Independence Hall.

BAE Systems has delivered three BvS10 armoured personnel carriers to defence authorities of Sweden, Germany, and the UK.

Employees of Italian defence company Leonardo in the UK are on the brink of strike action after rejecting a pay rise proposal.

A military helicopter from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington crashed on Wednesday night, said Scot Keith, a spokesman for the base.
No information was immediately available about how many service members were aboard the helicopter at the time, what their status is, or what type of helicopter went down.
The crash took place about 9 p.m. local time in a rural area Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Keith said in a statement.
“This remains a developing situation, and no additional details are available at this time,” Keith said.

Military use of small drones is increasing exponentially, with additional focus now being placed on battery life.

There’s a common misconception that military special operators get to use whatever equipment they want to get the job done. While Tier One units, such as DEVGRU (Naval Special Warfare Development Group, also known as SEAL Team Six) and Delta Force (1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta), enjoy considerable latitude with their acquisitions under Special Operations Command, “regular” SEALs and Green Berets are more limited. Army Special Forces had to pull a sneaky to get Glock 19 pistols, and even then, there weren’t enough to go around.