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It is 02:35:01Z, March 22, 2026, inside a dimly lit Forward U.S. Joint Operations Center. Screens pulse in gentle waves each a second long, reflecting streams of updated data. Unseen beneath layers of code, an advanced military logistics AI agent combs through decades of global supply chain records, hunting for subtle patterns in what looks like chaos. Abruptly, it pauses: an anomaly. Historical pricing data on iron, copper, and coal — echoes reminiscent of the lead-up to Japan’s surprise assault on Port Arthur in 1904 — begin aligning with current market movements.

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Fort McCoy garrison commander COL Sheyla Baez Ramirez was suspended today for refusing to display a photo of the Commander in Chief, President Donald J Trump, at her base. Typically, US military installations display the chain of command from the President to SECDEF on down to important commanders responsible for the base.
While COL Ramirez’ behavior is concerning, the military needs to return to more effective means of discipline by holding senior leaders responsible for what their subordinate commanders do or fail to do.

In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense secretary himself was a colonel wearing slacks and a pullover.
This was Ricky Buria, Hegseth’s junior military assistant and one of the only holdovers from the last secretary’s team.
Buria, who has sharp black hair with a gray streak in the front, has gained unique status in the last three months — not only in the secretary’s inner circle but perhaps the entire Pentagon.

The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were barbarous, cowardly weapons — but by the 20th century, they were everywhere.
Land mines defined combat in both World War I and World War II, and were a major part of war plans during the Cold War. But the 1997 Ottawa Treaty began to remove them from stockpiles across 163 nations that signed it.

The Army’s vision for its future network architecture likely won’t include radios for communication and data at the tactical level, according to top officials.
Next Generation Command and Control — the state of the Army’s future network and the service’s number one priority for modernization — has been billed as an entirely new way of doing business with a clean-slate approach rather than continuing to either bolt on or work within the confines of existing systems and processes.

The Army is cutting certified athletic trainers from the fitness training teams across the service, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Jim Mingus said Tuesday, replacing them with strength coaches.
But regular medics might get extra training to deal with fitness-related injuries when the trainers are gone.
The overall goal, he said, was a fitter, stronger Army.
“We will not have arrived until we have a no-neck Army,” Mingus joked. “Everybody in the Army, their traps are going to go from the base of their head right down to their neck.

Early into his tenure as head of U.S. Transportation Command, Air Force Gen. Randall Reed is keen to expand the hub’s application of data analytics and artificial intelligence, including via the Maven Smart System, to inform decision-making and enhance operational efficiency, he told DefenseScoop.
Reed — a command pilot with more than 3,500 flight hours — held a variety of joint, headquarters, and base-level roles, and steered a numbered air force, wing, expeditionary operations groups, and a flying training squadron before he assumed leadership at Transcom late last year.

Alexis Bonnell has stepped down from her positions at the Air Force Research Laboratory and has transitioned to a new job at OpenAI, the company responsible for the development of ChatGPT.
In 2023, Bonnell was tapped to serve as AFRL’s first-ever chief information officer and director of the laboratory’s Digital Capabilities Directorate, where she led the lab’s information technology strategy and overall modernization efforts. According to a Tuesday post on LinkedIn, Bonnell is now working at OpenAI as a partnership manager, a position she took on in March.

The Air Force has reactivated an electronic warfare unit that aims to more quickly respond to changes in the spectrum.
The 23d Electronic Warfare Squadron was activated in a ceremony April 18 and falls under the 350th Spectrum Warfare Group. Its predecessor, Detachment 1, which was deactivated, was created in 2023 to focus on reprogramming mission data files for command-and-control and combat rescue platforms.

In an April 9 executive order, the president directed his administration to “improve speed and accountability in the defense sales system.” The order aims to ensure that the United States has a “rapid and transparent foreign defense sales system” that provides support to key U.S. partners and boosts the country’s own defense industrial base. We asked four experts to identify key steps that the U.S. government should take to improve the foreign defense sales process. Read more below.