President Donald Trump moved the ball forward this week in his effort to get retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin’ Caine installed as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a four-star rank.
The White House on Monday officially submitted Caine’s nomination to the Senate and it was referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov. A confirmation hearing has not yet been announced.
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The Army wants to reduce the amount of equipment that close combat soldiers, like the infantry, have to carry. The obvious perks are that a lighter soldier can move (and fight) faster, is less likely to injure themselves carrying everything and the kitchen sink, and has less gear to worry about getting in trouble for losing.
“No longer will we hang things on them like we hang things on a Christmas tree,” Brig. Gen. Phil Kiniery, commandant of the Army’s Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, told Task & Purpose in a statement.
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — This year’s iteration of the Army’s Project Convergence is providing XVIII Airborne Corps the first opportunity to test out how to deploy as a unit while experimenting with critical communications technology.
Although the Army’s main fighting formation was brigades for the last 20 years of the global war on terror, it’s now shifting to division as the unit of action, and corps will also be a critical echelon that must relearn old lessons regarding how to mobilize in a new era where counterterrorism and counterinsurgency are no longer the service’s main focus.
In 2022, Yun Sun wrote “China’s Strategic Assessment of Russia: More Complicated Than You Think,” where she argued that the geopolitical alignment of Russia and China was more nuanced than the widespread perception of pundits and analysts of a “burgeoning relationship.” Three years later, we asked her to reflect on her article given the significant geopolitical shifts surrounding the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The Boxer AFV will provide the British Army with a considerable uptick in battlefield capability, although production will run for years.
Collins Aerospace has been approved to commence full rate production of its Mounted Assured PNT Generation II system (MAPS GEN II).
by Bruce Tucker Smith, USAF, Retired
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On February 24, Secretary of Defense Hegseth fired the Army and Air Force’s top uniformed lawyers (The Judge Advocates General or “TJAG” for short). Immediately thereafter, two retired Air Force JAG Major Generals, Charles J. Dunlap and Steven J. Lepper, published their unified outrage online. Their well-timed writings stoked the political left’s faux furor occasioned by President Trump’s firing of JCS Chairman Brown and CNO Franchetti.
U.S. Northern Command announced on Monday that more than 600 soldiers and airmen will deploy to the southern border as part of the U.S. military’s ongoing operations to stem illegal immigration.
About 590 engineers serving under the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps will be part of the deployment, a NORTHCOM news release says.
BAE Systems Hägglunds has contracted Clavister to provide CyberArmour products for integration into the CV90 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).
By Daniel Bissell | Restoration News
In January 2023, the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Superintendent Joanna Nunan received a complaint from far-left, anti-Christian activist Mikey Weinstein.
As previously reported by Restoration News, Nunan gave in to the radical’s demands.
Newly obtained shocking documents reveal Nunan had a 70-year-old heritage asset, the painting Christ on the Water, reduced in size and moved to a damp, moldy basement that floods—at taxpayer expense.