Okay, Curtis LeMay wasn’t a judo champion in the sense that he was winning awards for tossing people around. He did, however, popularize the martial art for the postwar world, bringing it into the U.S. Air Force, and through the military, to the rest of America.
Time has not been kind to LeMay. He’s remembered for firebombing cities across Japan, especially Tokyo, an attack that killed 100,000 Japanese civilians in a single night. He also built the Strategic Air Command into a nuclear powerhouse with the belief that he would one day nuke the Soviet Union “back into the Stone Age.
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Top Defense Department officials focused on combating cybercrime said Thursday that artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are making it easier for nefarious actors to threaten national security and circumvent traditional financial tracking systems.
The warning comes amid what the officials described as a rapidly changing threat environment, one that allows for low-level criminals to adopt sophisticated cyber exploitation methods and adversarial countries to obscure their actions, often in tandem.
“Cyber threats are no longer theoretical, episodic or isolated.
On Feb. 13 to 15, leaders and specialists from around the world — especially Europe and the United States — attended the 62nd Munich Security Conference. This year’s conference highlighted an ongoing European interest in maintaining the trans-Atlantic relationship, an emphasis on European “derisking” from reliance on the United States, and general agreement — tinged with grief or celebration, depending on who you ask — that the post-World War II liberal, rules-based world order is gone. U.S.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has secured a contract from the US Department of Defense’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) to support test and evaluation activities for thermal protection systems in hypersonic vehicles.
Elbit Systems has secured a contract to supply 30mm turret systems and munitions to an unnamed international customer under contracts valued at approximately $277m.
Early in his second presidential term, George Washington led troops during the Whiskey Rebellion. Harry Truman was the only U.S. president to see combat during World War I. Ronald Reagan desperately wanted to serve overseas during World War II, but he could not because of severe nearsightedness. Instead, he made himself useful by churning out 400 training films for the Army Air Forces.
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, 45 men have been elected its president. Nearly 70% of them, or 31, have risen to the nation’s highest office after serving in the military.
When troops don’t show up for work, commanders should quickly presume that they are “potentially in danger,” a federal watchdog said, after finding that over 90% of troops with “involuntary” absences are eventually found dead.
In a new report, the Government Accountability Office found that in 295 cases of involuntary absences across the military services from fiscal years 2015 to 2024, 93% (274) resulted in a service member’s death. In most cases, troops had suffered an accident, while about 10% were eventually found to have died by suicide.
The Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle is a contradiction wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in titanium and carbon fiber. It is a 1940s solution to a 21st-century problem, a rifled pipe that doesn’t give a hoot about electronic countermeasures, budgetary constraints, or the sweet optics of modern warfare.
“Goose” is of a different time. Think of it as a village blacksmith, one that uses a heavy hand and can hold generational grudges.
David Cenciotti, The Aviationist
Claims about modifying the F-35’s software raise legitimate sovereignty questions.
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