States use intelligence to inform their strategic decisions — and to influence their friends. Israel has a long history of passing secret intelligence to the United States in order to win its support, and according to multiple reports, it is trying again. The White House is more likely to join the war against Iran if it accepts Israeli intelligence at face value. But in doing so, it will sacrifice its strategic flexibility and risk losing diplomatic leverage. For a president who cherishes bargaining power, this would be a grave mistake.
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Russia’s defence sector has significantly increased production of T-90 main battle tanks, from approximately 90-110 tanks per year in 2020-2021, to 280-300 tanks in 2024, which represents an effective tripling of output. This landmark achievement follows concentrated efforts from mid-2022 to significantly expand tank production.
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The White House is nominating Adm. Daryl Caudle, a career submariner and currently the commander of US Fleet Forces, to be the US Navy’s 34th chief of naval operations, following the unceremonious removal of Adm. Lisa Franchetti in late February.
Neither the White House nor the Navy has yet made a public comment regarding the selection, but Caudle’s nomination can be seen on a congressional website displaying all presidential nominees.
The U.S. Army has begun to receive its eighth Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) long range anti-missile system, with three launchers and a fire control unit having been delivered by Lockheed Martin as part of a Minimum Engagement Package.
On June 18 Iranian government sources for the first time reported the use of Sejil medium range ballistic missiles for strikes on Israeli targets, as part of the latest series of attacks by the Revolutionary Guard Corps under Operation True Promise 3. Initiated in the late hours of June 13, the operation was launched in response to
The insane push for global nuclear conflict continues Update(1210ET): Just an hour away from a high-stakes White House press briefing, and a report in The Guardian has really upped the ante… Donald Trump has suggested to defense officials it would make sense for the US to launch strikes against Iran only if the so-called “bunker buster” bomb was guaranteed to destroy the critical uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, according to people familiar with the deliberations. Poland NDDM Paweł Bejda has engaged in discussions with RTX CEO, aimed at identifying strategic avenues for cooperation between them. More than a decade before American troops fought their way ashore in Normandy and Okinawa, the U.S. military noted that “the success of a modern fighting force is directly and immediately dependent on the ability of the Nation’s resources to satisfy promptly its requirement in munitions.”Eighty years later, the Defense Department has not lived up to that maxim. With arms transfers to Ukraine and military operations in the Red Sea exposing the deficiencies of U.S. BAE Systems has collaborated with the US Army DEVCOM-AC to progress the development of the M109-52 self-propelled howitzer (SPH) prototype. Welcome to this week’s Pentagon Rundown. Given the pace of the news cycle, we broke from our regular Friday publishing cadence to get this out today.
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The ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran has once again revealed the longstanding tension between the Office of the President of the United States and Congress over which branch of the government ultimately wields the power to wage war — a fight that’s become tilted in the executive branch’s favor in recent decades due to political inertia stemming from the Global War on Terrorism era.
On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.