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Hanwha secured a contract from HSW to supply chassis components for the Polish Armed Forces’ Krab self-propelled howitzers (SPH).

Charles Krulak, et al.

Military spouse culture is an ecosystem all its own. The rules are unspoken, the hierarchies are informal (but very real), and if you’ve been around long enough, you know exactly where you land in the social order, whether you like it or not.
So, at the surface level, a spouse is a spouse, right? But anyone who has ever sat through an FRG meeting, tried to navigate the installation Facebook group, or attempted small talk at a mandatory fun event knows better.

The UK has advanced its propulsion that will go on to power its future hypersonic cruise missile with the help of American scientists.

Introductory note from Ryan Shaw: Gen. (ret.) Chuck Jacoby, who capped a 37-year Army career as commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, passed away unexpectedly at his home in North Carolina on April 1. I had the privilege of helping him craft his retirement speech in 2014, and with the encouragement of several who attended, we adapted it for publication in War on the Rocks. It became one of the publication’s most read articles of that year. Today, with War on the Rocks, I’m honored to share the essay again, in memoriam.

In early 2023, in the sleepy English seaside town of Great Yarmouth, a covert operation was quietly revving into gear. Second-hand Chryslers and a Mercedes Viano van were being transformed into mobile spy units — outfitted with tinted windows, cloned foreign license plates, and kitted out with military-grade surveillance tech. International mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catchers — devices that mimic mobile towers to intercept phone data — were to be placed into the blacked-out cars and powered by their batteries.

A senior Navy officer who represented the U.S. in NATO military planning was fired Monday with no clear explanation from the Pentagon on why they were removed.
Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, a career Navy helicopter pilot, had been the U.S.’s top military representative to the NATO Military Committee.
A Pentagon spokesperson did not provide an explanation on Chatfield’s firing, saying officials “don’t have anything to offer right now.” Chatfield’s relief was first reported by Reuters.

The Trump administration has fired another senior military officer, likely due to overt support for the Maoist doctrine of DEI in the military.

Meet Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield. Here’s a report on her priorities as a leader of the U.S. Navy. Is this someone who should be leading our men and women into battle? “Just before the cake-cutting at the end of the Women’s Equality Day observance, Chatfield said she was pleased that the cake was decorated in purple, the color that represents a joint environment — many services working together.

A standard Marine Corps rifle squad will continue to be 13 Marines with at least one rifleman trained for expertise in long-range weapons like drones, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith announced on Monday.
“This includes a school-trained squad leader sergeant and three fire teams,” Smith said at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space 2025 conference at National Harbor, Maryland. “While this structure sounds familiar, it now includes an organic precision fires specialist.

A retired Green Beret now in Congress wants to ban a chain of supplement and nutrition supply stores from military bases because of ties to Chinese owners.
With a bill titled the “Military Installation Retail Security Act,” Rep. Pat Harrigan, a Republican from North Carolina, would ban companies from operating on military bases if they were owned or financially controlled by entities in based in China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran.
GNC, a nationwide retail chain that sells protein powders and other nutritional supplements, has 75 outlets on U.S.