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The Army has little to show for its recent efforts to upgrade its air and missile defense systems despite putting them on the development fast track and spending billions of dollars in…

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In his 2022 article, “New Missiles, New Risks: The Escalatory Implications of Iran’s Precision-Strike Weapons,” Jim Lamson argued that Iran’s acquisition of precision strike weapons had altered the balance of power in the Middle East. Three years on, and in the wake of several waves of ballistic missile attacks on Israel, we asked Jim to reevaluate his analysis.Note: Given the fluidity of the situation in the Middle East, this article was originally published on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

The shuttering of a military police battalion at Fort Drum, New York, this week marks the latest in a string of two dozen Army MP units closed in the last 18 months.
The Army has already inactivated nine military police companies and 15 detachments. By fiscal year 2027, the service is slated to inactivate one MP brigade, four MP battalions, 15 MP companies and four detachments.
The deep cuts in the number of soldiers serving as police continue a two-decade trend of reductions that have cut the Army’s corps of military police nearly in half, from 14,000 to 8,000.

If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like battlefield.
At least, not yet.
It turns out that some AI models are really bad at chess, specifically ChatGPT. Technology site Futurism found software engineer Robert Caruso’s LinkedIn post, wherein he reported that the popular AI bot got “absolutely wrecked” by an Atari 2600 playing Atari Chess.

PIUSA, Estonia — As part of a large-scale security and modernization campaign sparked by the invasion of Ukraine, the Estonian government is moving to set up and deploy a “drone wall” across its entire eastern border with Russia by the end of 2027.
This massive, in-the-works fortification will include a combination of surveillance assets, multilayer sensors, countermeasure platforms, and uncrewed systems that can take out hostile enemy drones across the roughly 183-mile border, which also marks a major boundary shared between Russia and the NATO alliance.

President Donald Trump has nominated Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney to be the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. military’s second-highest ranking officer.
The role is currently held by Navy Adm. Christopher Grady, who is nearing the end of his scheduled term in that position.
Trump submitted Mahoney’s nomination for the role to the Senate on June 17, and it’s been referred to the Armed Services Committee for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov.

Oracle has unveiled a new international program aimed at transforming the provision of technology for defence and government sectors.