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Thibeau & Yakulis, RCD
Why Soldiers Shouldn’t Have to Fund Their Own Transformation

Chris Gordon, A&SF
Selfridge Air National Guard Base will become the home of 21

Kapil Kajal, IntEngineering
The SR-72 will be the fastest operational airframe ever built, with an anticipated top speed exceeding Mach 5

Despite the Department of Defense spending $14 billion a year on cyber forces and technology, U.S. military cyber forces have never met the department’s readiness standards. This decade-long failure has motivated Congress, the military cyber community, and a variety of national security thinkers to debate major structural changes to Cyber Command and its Cyber Mission Force (a joint force with teams provided by each service).

In today’s world, turbulence isn’t temporary — it‘s the new normal. In this episode, Gen. (ret.) David Berger, former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, shares why adaptability, resilience, and grit are not just desirable but essential traits for leaders in an uncertain and unpredictable age. Successful leaders must embrace disruption rather than waiting for stability to return, he tells Ryan. And after offering insights from his career as a Marine officer, including his experience planning and leading Force Design 2030, Gen.

On April 29, 1975, communist Vietnamese forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong began a final attack on the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. Nearly 100 aircraft were destroyed on the flight line of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Just one airworthy aircraft remained: a C-130A Hercules, tail number 56-0518.
The Fall of Saigon prompted a mass exodus (State Department via DoD)
Realizing that the C-130 was the last way out of the country, Maj. Phuong, a South Vietnamese instructor pilot ordered his crew to prep the aircraft to evacuate civilians.

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force conducted a joint operation with U.S. military forces Tuesday that targeted “a cluster of buildings” in Yemen where Iran-backed Houthi militants produced drones matching those previously launched to attack ships in and around the Red Sea, according to a statement and officials familiar with the operation.
“These were the first direct U.K. strikes under this new U.K. [Labour Party-led] government — the last time was on 30 May 2024,” a spokesperson with the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., told DefenseScoop on Wednesday.

The Marine Corps is looking to take more of a capability and portfolio approach as it builds out command and control solutions for the force, rather than pursuing a systems approach as it has in the past.
In other words, whereas the Corps historically has delivered specific systems — such as a radio or radar — it wants to begin combining several systems in order to produce more integrated capability packages that are the sum of their parts rather than one-off systems.
Last year, the service combined at least 15 different systems into an integrated command and control portfolio.

Over the weekend, Sal Mercogliano posted a great visual of the great circle route between the USA and East Asia.

You know I love great circle analysis, but for my long-standing Front Porch members, what other favorite topics of mine come to mind, or what popped into your head?
Yep’r … the Arctic and the neglected High North.