Charlie Phelps, Modern War Institute
… the Army needs to apply the principles of the lean startup model, not…
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James Holmes, National Interest
All in all, the expansion of USV use is a promising experiment that could ameliorate the US Navy’s force-structure woes—while amplifying US fleets’ combat…
Ethan Gossrow, Naval News
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“Why isn’t my J2 giving me the information I need? What do all these intelligence agencies do for me anyway?”As U.S. military officers progress in rank, their relationship with intelligence evolves. Senior officers interact more with the intelligence community as the military assigns them to service component commands, joint task forces, and combatant commands. Further, technological advances and the increasing availability of data have made intelligence both more capable and complex.
Sure sounds like it
Here’s Subic Bay back in its US Navy heyday.
Here she is today.
That isn’t the real change. Look at what is happening on the western side of the bay.
19 years ago in 2006, just some undeveloped bayside.
Today?
Why is it important?
Subic Bay, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of Manila, sits within striking distance of China.
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In 1997, the movie Wag the Dog depicts a fictional president starting a war to divert attention from his personal sex scandal. The next year, President Clinton ordered military strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan just days after the Monica Lewinsky story was heating up in the courtroom. Many alleged that Clinton was using military actions to distract from his personal sexual scandal.
Fast forward to 2025.
The drug problem in America is decades old. Deaths increased during Trump’s first term as President and there were no international drug strikes at the time.
To gain the U.S. government’s trust, advanced AI systems must be engineered from the outset with reliable components offering explainability and transparency, senior federal and industry officials said Friday.
“This [topic] is something I think about a lot,” the CIA’s chief AI officer Lakshmi Raman noted at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit.
U.S. military forces have launched a strike against a second boat in the Caribbean, allegedly killing three people on board. In a social media post, President Donald Trump said the boat was linked to “drug trafficking cartels.”
In a Monday social media post, Trump released a video of a military strike on an open-platform boat from an overhead camera. Unlike a Sept. 2 strike on a fast-moving speedboat, the boat captured in the Monday video was not moving and appeared to have its engines lifted out of the water.
Troops who currently need shaving waivers for more than a year could face separation under changes announced in a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is calling for a “clean shaven” military.
“Unit commanders will initiate separation of service members who require a shaving waiver after more than 1 year of medical treatment,” Hegseth wrote in an Aug. 20 memo released on Monday. “I have full confidence in our leaders at all levels to provide an accurate assessment of whether retention is appropriate.
The Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base in Utah will wind down its tactical air control party (TACP) squadron and eventually replace it with two new units focused on cyber operations, according to the Air Force.
The service announced Thursday that the military base has been chosen as the preferred location for the Air National Guard’s new cyber operations squadrons, expected to reach full operational capability by 2030.