Decades of global policing and crisis response have taken a toll on the U.S. Navy. If the United States wishes to deter China, Beijing must believe Washington can fight a sustained, brutal war, one in which the U.S. Navy can take major losses and still fight on. Today, that is not the case, and the concept of “naval forward presence” bears much of the blame. Naval forward presence remains popular with foreign policy elites and the military brass, but the election of President Donald Trump provides a chance to break its hold on conventional wisdom.
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The combatant command that oversees American military operations in the Middle East has a new chief technology officer.
Joy Angela Shanaberger, who recently served as a senior adviser to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks during the Biden administration, took on the CTO role at U.S. Central Command, which is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, last month.
“Joining a great team in the sunshine state,” Shanaberger wrote in a LinkedIn post, adding that she’s “ready to achieve big things together, deliberately.
On Friday, Dec 13, 2024, guests were greeted by local Army Reserve Soldiers, cast and crew, and had the opportunity to walk the red carpet before sitting down with popcorn and soda at a special screening of “Wintergreen,” a holiday short film written and directed by Army Reserve 1st Lt. Tim Yao, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What makes this groundbreaking is that 1 Lt. Tim Yao executed this production with all USAR Soldiers.
The Pentagon’s AI acceleration hub recently moved to operationally prototype custom, commercial machine learning models that can monitor and assess adversarial media and associated data to support U.S. national security missions and swiftly supply predictions based on high-tech analysis.
In response to questions regarding a contract award unveiled Wednesday, a Defense Department spokesperson shared new details about how and why the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) is rapidly prototyping BigBear.
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below. *** Russia Russia continues to make incremental gains on the front line in eastern Ukraine, but Ukrainian drone attacks increasingly threaten Russia’s domestic energy infrastructure. In the last two weeks, Ukraine has successfully attacked at least four major oil and natural gas processing plants, in regions as disparate as Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Volgograd, and Ryazan.
The NFL and USAA, an official NFL Salute to Service Partner, named George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers tight end, as the recipient of the 2024 Salute to Service Award presented by USAA. The award recognizes the exceptional efforts made by members of the NFL family to honor and support the military community.
Kittle will be recognized at NFL Honors presented by Invisalign on Thursday, February 6 during the week of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. USAA, a leading provider of insurance, banking and other financial services to U.S.
Anyone who follows the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, knows that the latest iteration of Captain America is an Air Force vet named Sam Wilson, and that Wilson’s time in the military was spent as a PJ, the service’s hard-charging pararescue specialists.
Ahead of the latest Captain America movie release, Wilson — or at least Anthony Mackie, the actor who plays him — went back to his character’s roots for a freefall jump this week with the PJs of the 58th Rescue Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
On February 4th, the Virginia House of Delegates voted UNANIMOUSLY to pass the ‘Defend the Guard Act.’ The vote was 99-0 and the act is meant to keep the Virginia National Guard from deploying to foreign conflicts without a congressional declaration of war, as is required by the United State Constitution. This requirement has never changed, despite the fact that no such declaration has occurred since World War 2.
On February 6th, Montana State Representative Lee Deming of Laurel reintroduced the same act, known as House Bill 404.
The US has always led the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meetings, but has stepped down for the next session in Brussels.
A U.S. Marine and three Pentagon contractors died after their aircraft went down in the Philippines Thursday, officials said.
The crew was on a “routine mission” providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of the Philippines, according to a release by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command officials.
The crash occurred in the Maguindanao del Sur, a Philippine province located in the southern region of the country.