Thousands of saboteurs have reached Minot Air Force Base. They are known for their ability to tunnel underground, their stealthy nature and small size and the risk they pose to base infrastructure. They are squirrels and the personnel at Minot can’t stand them.
Last week base command sent out a notice to residents acknowledging the growing number of Richardson Ground Squirrels at the installation.
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The U.S. was not forecast to hit the trillion-dollar defence budget for a number of years, according to analysis.
In the aftermath of Israel’s initiation of an 11 day air campaign against Iran on June 13, and after the United States nine days later deployed strategic bombers and nuclear attack submarines to target the country’s nuclear sites, the state of Iran’s air defence systems has faced growing scrutiny.
What does it take to push aerospace innovation from concept to battlefield? Ryan sits down with John Clark, Lockheed Martin’s senior vice president for technology and strategic innovation and former head of the legendary Skunk Works. They unpack the Skunk Works playbook for rapid innovation, reveal proven strategies for bending the cost curve, and explore why established defense giants may have an unexpected edge in the race for AI advantage.Image: NASA/Steve Freeman via Wikimedia Commons.
The next major threat to U.S. national security won’t arrive through a missile silo or a cyberattack but through a port terminal, a biotechnology lab, or a cloud infrastructure contract. Because the threat masquerades as commerce, it is rarely recognized for what it is: a coordinated adversarial campaign to erode America’s latent power, or a state’s economic capacity to generate military power over time and embed influence across critical sectors in ways that could be activated or exploited in a future conflict. This is not hypothetical.
On June 22, the United States launched precision airstrikes as part of Operation Midnight Hammer against Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. In the wake of those strikes, President Donald Trump said the operation had “totally obliterated” those facilities, while Tehran’s parliament voted to grant the government authority to close the Strait of Hormuz.