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This time of the year you have to make a decision: do I discuss the Normandy Invasion or the Battle of Midway?
Well, you know where we are going today, but I want to honor those who fought the battle from a slightly different angle.
You still hear statements about the battle that on the American side, “there were no successful torpedo attacks” … that isn’t true. You also hear statements that the torpedo attacks were a waste … and that isn’t true.
On the night of June 5, 1944, as tens of thousands of Allied troops prepared to storm the beaches of Normandy, a handful of British Special Air Service commandos were parachuting into Nazi-occupied France alongside hundreds of straw-stuffed burlap dummies.
This was Operation Titanic, one of the more absurd operations of the war. Yet Titanic, along with other deceptions, tricked the German high command into believing the real invasion of “Fortress Europe” was happening somewhere else or not at all.
A mental health survey given to over 50,000 troops on their way out of the military in 2023 found that two-thirds indicated they might have a mental health condition worthy of medical follow-up. But of those identified in the program, more than half refused referrals to a transition program for counseling or other treatment, a government watchdog found.
As the Department of Defense races to shore up its cyber defenses with zero-trust security architectures by 2027, it will issue key guidance for how industry partners should enlist the security framework for Internet of Things and operational technology systems by the end of the fiscal year.
Randy Resnick, senior advisor of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office in the DOD, said Wednesday that the department is developing those guidance documents as expansions and variations of the 91 baseline “target-level” zero-trust activities it has already released for industry models to meet.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — A data and integration layer and data ingestion will be critical components for the Army’s next generation of command and control, according to top service officials.
Next Generation Command and Control is one of the Army’s highest priorities as it aims to provide commanders and units a new approach to manage information, data, and command and control with agile and software-based architectures.
BAE Systems Australia has test fired the Vantage automated turret system (ATS) designed for its 8×8 ATLAS CCV vehicle.
The US State Department has approved a $325m potential FMS of M1A2 Abrams MBT system sustainment support to Kuwait.
The British Army will consider whether to disperse its ammunition stocks and heavy equipment around Europe for Nato readiness.
Welcome back! Before we get started, I want to take a moment to honor the U.S. and other Allied troops who took part in the D-Day landings 81 years ago, including the soldiers killed during a rehearsal of the invasion in April 1944. The free world remains in their debt.
Last weekend, Ukraine launched a daring drone attack against airfields thousands of miles inside Russia. Dubbed Operation Spider’s Web, the attack drew global attention.