On June 13, 2025, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a massive campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program, air defenses, ballistic missile infrastructure, and senior military leaders and nuclear scientists. Within hours, Israel Defense Forces claimed that they had control of the skies from the western border of the country to Tehran. They didn’t accomplish this with airpower alone, but with covertly placed anti-tank missiles and small drones launched from inside Iran.
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In their 2022 article, “A More United, Better-Armed Opposition Can Bring Democracy to Myanmar,” Ye Myo Hein and Lucas Myers argued the piecemeal resistance in Myanmar had several opportunities to improve and make substantive gains against the military junta controlling the country. Three years on, we asked them to revisit their analysis in light of events on the ground.
The Army’s top modernization priority is slated to get around $3 billion across procurement and research-and-development accounts in the next fiscal year, according to information provided by service officials regarding the 2026 budget request.
Next Generation Command and Control is a clean-slate design for how the Army communicates on the battlefield and passes data for operations, providing commanders and units a new approach to information sharing and C2 through agile and software-based architectures.
A federal watchdog found that a national hotline for veterans suffering a mental health crisis was struggling to keep its responders trained to handle the most belligerent and abusive callers, and that the hotline’s responders sometimes juggled two active text message conversations at once.
The Government Accountability Office found that the shortfalls in both areas could lead to safety issues for both callers seeking help and the responders who answer the calls for the Veterans Crisis Line, or VCL, which is operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Department of Defense is standing up a joint interagency task force to tackle drone threats, according to a senior officer.
“We recently did a session with the secretary of defense and we are going to stand up a joint interagency task force” focused on thwarting drones, Gen. James Mingus, vice chief of staff of the Army, said during an event Wednesday co-hosted by AUSA and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS), as it is known in DOD parlance, is a key challenge for the military.
Europe will develop a new, sovereign main battle tank through a newly formed, German-led consortium known as MARTE ARGE GbR.
The Australian Army has fired air-to-air missiles from a NASAMS launcher and Hawkei 4×4 high-mobility launcher (HML) armoured vehicle.
The Swedish FMV has placed order with Saab for the RBS 70 NG mobile short-range air defence system (MSHORAD), along with associated missiles.
For those who may not be familiar with this bit of history, Jane Fonda is a star of stage and screen whose illustrious career began in 1960. She is the daughter of the legendary actor and World War II naval officer Henry Fonda. Jane is long regarded as public enemy number one among Vietnam veterans (because Ho Chi Minh is dead, and even if he weren’t, it would be a close vote).
“Dear Jane, thanks for taking some of the heat off. Love, Ho.
During World War II, President Roosevelt said that the United States “must be the great arsenal of democracy.” The speech was made on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the country’s formal entry into the war.
At the time, Roosevelt was referring to the military equipment and supplies that America needed produce and send oversees to the United Kingdom to combat Nazi Germany. The country actually took a similar role in the previous war, which resulted in an attack on an expected place: the Statue of Liberty.