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In recent months, incoming Trump administration national security adviser Mike Waltz and some lawmakers have suggested that in response to Chinese cyber breaches, the United States needs to prioritize taking more aggressive offensive actions in cyberspace rather than emphasizing defense.
It’s been said before. And it’s easier said than done.
Experts that spoke with reporters for this story note several multifaceted questions regarding enhanced offensive operations, including what form they would take and if it’s an appropriate response to the recent rash of intrusions.

Artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will likely play an even more significant role in determining the outcome of future conflicts as the technology continues to evolve over the next 25 years, according to outgoing Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.
In a congressionally-mandated report submitted to lawmakers in December and set to be published Monday, Kendall outlined his prediction on what security environments and technological advancements will contribute to what both the Air and Space Forces will look like in the year 2050.

Service members who have gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training, or SERE may get flashbacks from the trailer for the upcoming zombie horror film by Danny Boyle, “28 Years Later,” which features a 1915 reading of the Rudyard Kipling poem “Boots.

Personnel leading the Pentagon’s enterprise AI office are setting up a new Budget and Programming Cell amid the presidential transition, and made several previously undisclosed senior-level hires, according to an unclassified internal document recently obtained by DefenseScoop.
Defense Department leadership in 2021 kicked off a process to combine four organizations — the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Defense Digital Service (DDS), Office of the Chief Data Officer, and the Advana program — to form that hub, the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO).

With just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, it was thought the US would send a larger military aid package to Ukraine.

This is Chapter 6 in the Wellness Memoir. Catch up here.
Long-distance relationships are challenging, but adding health issues into the mix takes it to another level. I often found myself wrestling with how much of my health struggles to share with my deployed husband. I wanted him to know the truth but also didn’t want to burden him with stress while he faced his own challenges during the year we were apart.
It felt like I had to navigate recovery on my own because he couldn’t see or fully understand what I was going through.

Ukraine Deputy Minister of Defence brigadier general Anatolii Klochko has engaged in discussions with the Italian Defence Industry Agency.

Rheinmetall Electronics has expanded its stake in blackned by purchasing an additional 11% of shares through a share acquisition agreement.

This is Chapter 5 in the Transition Memoir. Catch up here.
I found Five Minute Friday when my son was about six months old. The goal was to write on a prompt word for five minutes. I didn’t have a blog, I had never shared my writing with anyone outside of emails home to Afghanistan. I decided to join in and started posting in the comment section with other writers. 
For five minutes once a week, I had a new goal and a new focus. 
Leaving the military had left me lost and confused, unsure of what to do next. I had tried to become a fitness coach but that had crashed and burned.

Mattel was founded by Elliot Handler, his wife Ruth Handler and Harold Matson in 1945. Elliot Handler served in the U.S. Army during World War II. The name was created by taking “Matt” from Matson and “El” from Elliot to form Mattel. They first sold picture frames and dollhouse furniture. Matson stepped out of Mattel in 1946 because of health issues and sold his shares to the Handlers. Mattel’s first successful toy was the Uke-A-Doodle, which was a ukulele.