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The Navy is counting on innovations to help it build and staff submarines and ships more efficiently as demand for the capability grows
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The new frigates will be able to operate in both deep (blue) water and shallow, near-shore (littoral) environments.
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The strike group’s Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyers will deploy with the Coyote and Roadrunner systems
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In a change from the planned USS Enterprise name, the vessel will now be named after the Senior Advisor to the President, Elon Musk.
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China is Trying to Win the Tech War, We Should Be Too
CNN is reporting the Latin American nation of Ecuador is actively working to secure U.S. forces deployed in-country to help fight transnational organized crime.
CNN reports of facilities being built at the Manta naval base to house and support U.S. forces.
According to a high-level Ecuadorian official familiar with the planning, construction of a new naval facility in the coastal city of Manta is part of that preparation, with barracks-style housing and administration offices designed to support sustained operations and US military personnel.
As the war between Ukraine and Russia has raged on, cooperation has grown between Moscow and Pyongyang. Following the Russo-North Korean summit in September 2023, North Korea began providing large-scale military assistance to Russia, reportedly sending military equipment starting that month and deploying troops from October 2024. This has led to an economic recovery in North Korea.
By retired Army Colonel Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius on X)
There is an enormous problem in our nation’s military, one that I have not seen discussed in depth elsewhere.
I have heard from multiple sources that many active duty officers openly and deeply despise the Trump Administration, and they are not at all shy about expressing their opinion both in and out of uniform.
One active duty major I know estimates that it’s 1 in 4 who have this problem.
This is an astonishingly bad problem.
Two former defense officials who helped spur major efforts during previous congressional sessions to drive government transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) returned to the Hill last week for closed-door discussions with several lawmakers about that issue and emerging challenges associated with drones.
“I’m confident that next steps are not only going to follow, but I think we’re going to see potentially even more progress this year than we have in the last seven,” Lue Elizondo told DefenseScoop on Thursday in an interview shortly after departing from those meetings.
The lowering of standards to ensure the right politically correct ethnic and gender groups are represented in combat arms in the military is one of the nefarious outcomes of the Biden administration Marxist DEI policy.
America’s armed forces suffered with low readiness and combat effectiveness as a result of these policies.
Correcting this grievous mistake was one of the main goals of America First veterans who banded together to fight Maoist indoctrination ad policies in the American military.