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The Silicon Valley-headquartered Defense Innovation Unit issued a new solicitation Friday for AI and machine learning applications to boost the performance of the Navy’s maritime operations centers.
The sea service’s maritime operations centers, or MOCs, are part of the Navy’s approach to fleet-level command and control and are expected to be “the center” of how sailors fight in a distributed manner in future battles, according to the CNO Navigation Plan released last year.
Taiwan is implementing a multi-layered defence modernisation initiative in response to escalating security challenges, says GlobalData.
The US State Department has approved a potential foreign military sale of Javelin missiles and associated equipment to Estonia.
Well, it’s Friday.
This is a special edition of the Pentagon Rundown in which we will look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise that the latest Defense Department review of the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will finally lead to “accountability” for the debacle.
On Aug. 26, 2021, 13 U.S. service members and around 170 Afghans were killed in a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The bombing was the final attack on U.S. troops in a war that claimed the lives of more than 2,000 American service members since it began on Oct. 7, 2001.
Airmen were sent running half a mile across base with sticky notes to alert the operations team of the details for the C-130 takeoff. When the aircraft arrived to airdrop of water and ammunition to troops in combat, ground crews sent up smoke signals to alert pilots that they were engaged with the enemy. Back at home base, it was “controlled chaos,” a pilot said.
It’s what happens when all forms of electronic communication are wiped out.
North Korean prestige, fresh off aiding the Russian Federation on Ukrainian battlefields, suffered a disaster this week in its shipyards.
You see, on Wednesday, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and assorted bigwigs from the ruling North Korean Workers’ Party gathered in Chongjin, a port city in the country’s north-east, to attend the launch of North Korea’s second new destroyer.
Kim launched the first 5,000-tonne Choe Hyon-class destroyer less than a month earlier to great fanfare.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2021 In 2007, I spent Memorial Day in Fallujah. Although I was on my fifth tour in Iraq, it was the first deployment when I buried friends. I attended more than three dozen memorial services that deployment. I remember the names and faces of the dead. Memorial Day was no longer an abstraction. This year’s Memorial Day carries with it the anticipation that the country might be bringing the 9/11 wars to a conclusion. America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan is coming to an end.
L Todd Wood speaks with Ali Nazary, the foreign affairs representative of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
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