The history of the U.S. special operations forces is filled with legendary missions like the battle of Mogadishu in 1993, SEAL Team 6 killing Osama bin Laden in 2011, and the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. But none of those would have been possible if it weren’t for a failed mission in 1980 that forced the U.S. to rewrite the special operations playbook.
In 1978 and 1979, Iran underwent their Islamic Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the installation of an Islamic Theocracy led by Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Israel’s strikes against Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure, as well as its key military and security leadership, shocked the world. How did we arrive here? What did the Israeli strikes accomplish? What options does Iran have? How did the Iranian-U.S. nuclear talks fail to forestall this? Will the United States become a party to the conflict? What about the Russian and Iraqi dimensions? Nicole Grajewski of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Rachel Brandenburg of the Israel Policy Forum joined Ryan to answer these questions and more.
When I sat down to watch A24’s “Warfare,” I thought I had a pretty good idea of what the movie would be about.
I’d seen the trailers. I’d read about Ray Mendoza’s real-life story, a decorated Navy SEAL turned military advisor and now scriptwriter and co-director of a gritty, boots-on-the-ground war film that promised authenticity without Hollywood gloss.
What I didn’t expect was that the most honest, most emotionally resonant scene in the entire film would arrive in the first minute and a half. And it didn’t involve a single shot being fired.
On Jan. 27, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring that the military develop a “missile defense shield” to protect the U.S. homeland — now dubbed “Golden Dome.” While any such system will require several years for full implementation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in May that the Defense Department is “working with Congress to secure $25B of funding in the One Big Beautiful reconciliation bill” toward Golden Dome capabilities.
Several hundred of the latest variant from the HX family of logistics trucks will be delivered to the British Army.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis will be the next commander of 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado.
The move is significant as 4th ID is slated to be the primary experimental unit for the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control as that system aims to scale up to division level.
NGC2 is one of the the Army’s top modernization priorities.
Brandon Pugh has been selected as the Army’s principal cyber adviser, according to a LinkedIn post.
Pugh, who will be the third person to hold that role, most recently was director and a resident senior fellow for the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team. Additionally, he is an Army reservist serving as a national security law professor at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, having previously been a paratrooper as well.
Picturing a sky full of drones over their head, American sailors and Marines teamed with troops from the Latvian Army this month to turn a clearing in the woods into a network of trenches designed specifically to survive attacks from above.
Naval Combat Engineers, or Seabees, from Naval Construction Battalion 14 and Marines from the 8th Engineer Support Battalion took part in an exercise in Skrunda, Latvia, to quickly build and reinforce trenches. It was meant to hone their ability to make a defensive position capable of withstanding attacks from enemy drones.
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway have entered into a SPA with Nammo to strengthen ammunition supply and defence readiness.
At the Paris Air Show, MBDA opened by showcasing its new long range mass effect UAV which meets a French artillery requirement.