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Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down for a retrospective episode about the Biden administration’s foreign and defense policy. Using U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Foreign Affairs article “America’s Strategy of Renewal,” they ask if the United States is better off in terms of national security than it was four years ago.

The Kremlin’s preoccupation with prevailing in Ukraine is pushing it to contemplate geostrategic risks and adopt a more proactive approach in regions like the Red Sea. In the past, the Yemeni quagmire had limited appeal even to Russia, a country known for its inclination to exploit crises around the globe. But Moscow’s calculations may be shifting. The Kremlin’s warming ties with Yemen’s Houthi rebels could enable the latter to expand and intensify their destabilizing activities, especially if advanced military hardware changes hands.

The Space Development Agency has tapped 19 space companies to compete for upcoming prototype demonstrations under its new Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (HALO) vendor pool, the organization announced Wednesday.
As part of the HALO pool of pre-approved vendors, the selected businesses will now be able to compete for demonstrations and experimentation task orders that will support future tranches of SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Army investigators are looking into the death of a soldier at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri as a homicide after she was found dead earlier this week, officials told Task and Purpose.
Officials announced Tuesday that Sgt. Sarah Roque, 23, was found dead. Base officials at Fort Leonard Wood had put out a “be on the look out” notice, also known as a BOLO, on Monday, asking for the public’s help in locating Roque, who was described as a Hispanic woman assigned to the 5th Engineer Battalion.

Security officers at the Air Force Academy stopped a fan from wearing a shirt that read, “Keep Women’s Sports Female” to a volleyball game between Air Force and San Jose State University (SJSU).
SJSU has a transgender player, Blaire Fleming, on their team.
In a video obtained by OutKick, security informed John Kopecky, a fan who also happens to be an Air Force grad, to unzip his sweatshirt so they could read what his shirt said.

More than 50 U.S families assigned to an airbase in the United Kingdom have been told to vacate their homes soon, some shortly after the New Year, Air Force officials confirmed Wednesday. 
A group of 31 families at Royal Air Force Mildenhall must move by Jan. 31, Capt. Geneva Giaimo, a spokeswoman for the 100th Air Refueling Wing told Task & Purpose, while another 20 families are scheduled to move by Aug. 1.
The families got word on Monday that the homes they live in on the English base — many of which date to before World War II — have been deemed unsafe and will soon be demolished.

A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** The United States has deployed 100 servicemembers and one of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems (THAADs) to Israel to protect in the case of a retaliatory Israeli strike against Iran, which launched more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this month.