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During its most recent capstone exercise, U.S. Cyber Command created a joint task force with the Coast Guard to defend ports against cyberattacks.
Cyber Guard, the command’s premier annual exercise, integrated with Pacific Sentry. As cyber has matured within the Department of Defense, leaders have sought to integrate it deeper with other defense functions, using real-world exercises to game out how it can support others.
“When I was a young officer, we would deploy and we would do an exercise in [Indo-Pacific Command] or [European Command].

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranOn June 13, Israel launched a major offensive against Iran using a combination of airpower and ground-based operatives. Operation Rising Lion struck a range of nuclear and military facilities, as well as the upper echelons of Iran’s military command and top nuclear experts.

Air Force B-2 bombers dropped a total of 12 “massive ordnance penetrator” bombs — each one with a uniquely programmed fuze — on two different ventilation shafts at Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordow last weekend during Operation Midnight Hammer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told reporters Thursday.
The 30,000-pound GBU-57 bombs, also known as MOPs, used in this assault were designed to attack deep underground targets in locations that are hundreds of feet below ground level.

As the U.S. military prepares for the possibility of a conflict in the Pacific, the Navy and Marine Corps are working on a new way to project airpower, and they’re calling it the Lightning Carrier.
The concept, which the Corps began testing in 2016, turns amphibious assault ships, like the Navy’s America-class USS America, which is both easy to remember and ultra patriotic in a “Team America” kind of way, into small, agile flat-top carriers bristling with F-35B Lightning II aircraft and about 1,800 Marines.

It’s that time of year again. Really, it’s one of those times of year again. There’s a big holiday coming up, so Major League Baseball is breaking out special caps for their players to wear on the field (and for fans to buy). Released just in time for our great nation’s 249th birthday, MLB is offering special July 4th-themed hats for every team to rock.
New Era Caps has designed baby blue hats for every team, each with an American flag inside the team’s logo. Across the brim is a red or blue cord, across a red or blue brim.

Bell Textron has delivered the first of two MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) virtual prototypes (VP) to the US Army.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated on Thursday that the U.S. military considered launching further attacks against Iranian nuclear sites after the air and missile strikes over the weekend.
Hegseth spoke to reporters on Thursday after CNN first reported that a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment had found the strikes may not have destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, and may have only set it back by months. Other media outlets, including the The New York Times and The Washington Post, have reported on the agency’s findings.

In 2002, the U.S. military tapped Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper to lead the opposing forces in the most expensive and expansive military exercise in history up until that point. He was put in command of an inferior Middle Eastern-inspired military force – essentially a fictional Iran – and his mission was to go against the full might of the American armed forces. In the first two days, he sank an entire carrier battle group.
In fact, he had achieved such great success that it prompted the U.S. military brass to cry foul.
The exercise, called Millennium Challenge 2002, wasn’t just big.

The Netherlands MoD has engaged Rheinmetall Defence Nederland, a subsidiary based in Ede, to provide Ukraine with 20 Ermine vehicles.

Military doctors and nurses are not getting enough hands-on patient care, leaving them ill-prepared to care for troops in combat and causing them to separate from service altogether, according to a federal watchdog.
“Because Army and Navy medical personnel are not consistently assigned where they can sustain their wartime readiness skills, they may not provide high quality, point-of-injury care to service members during deployments,” a Department of Defense Inspector General report released this month found.