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The campaign of drone warfare being carried out by Ukraine against Russian oil tankers, merchant ships, and naval vessels in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea has entered a new, decisive phase. If the effectiveness and level of success achieved so far are maintained, it will have ripple effects that reach all the way back to Moscow.
For that reason, the campaign has been nicknamed МоЛоЧКа (MoLoChKa), an acronym for the Russian phrase meaning “Moscow Will Fall Through Crimea.
Mishra, Interesting Engineering
Kratos claims that it’s the only company delivering both propulsion and flyer systems.
Dylan Malyasov, Defence Blog
The U.S.
Ryan Finnerty, Flight Global
The test event over the Mojave Desert involved an externally carried Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM radar-guided missile.
JV Venable, RealClearDefense
Air Superiority over Battlefields Demands Both Standoff and Penetrating Airpower
Tectonic
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A Washington inmate used jail phones to call VA medical centers and convince staff members to hand over personal information of seriously ill veterans receiving care at the hospitals.
With a second call, the inmate then tried to scam their close relatives out of money.
Repeating the same scam over 60 times, Darryl Lamont Young, 41, took family members of sick veterans for $8,900 between late 2021 and early 2023, a federal jury in Seattle found Monday. The jury convicted Young of 14 counts of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud in the scam after a four-day trial.
The relationship between Congress and the Pentagon over the past year has been marked by public disagreements and frustrations over lawmakers’ concerns about the Iran War, and by what some lawmakers view as politically motivated firings of top military leaders. In many ways, the House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act reflect lawmakers’ efforts to check the Pentagon’s policy power.Innovation efforts are generally a bright spot in these political battles.
Nothing reveals truths more effectively than patterns. If you can identify a pattern, you can see what actions conceal, what statements leave unsaid, and what agreements postpone. Peace treaties and the negotiations surrounding them are rarely analyzed in this way, even though they may exhibit patterns that recur across different circumstances.
Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. The special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page.The United States is fighting a new kind of global competition — over supply chains, chips, and sanctions. It barely has anyone trained to fight it.