In the past several months, the U.S. Navy has continued to protect global shipping in combat in the Red Sea, the Port of Baltimore struggled through the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, and the Chinese Coast Guard and maritime militia conducted attacks on Philippine ships. With these events and more, concerns about shipping rates and routes and responses to global maritime insecurity have led commentators and strategists to turn their attention toward the U.S. role in the maritime world. These reflections have not all been positive.
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Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions as necessary to counteract the existential threat of climate change.
WASHINGTON – The Secretary of the Navy announced on July 17 the full exoneration of the remaining 256 defendants of the 1944 Port Chicago general and summary courts-martial. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, announced the exonerations on the 80th anniversary of an explosion at Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, just inland from San Francisco, that killed 320 people, injured 400 others, destroyed two ships and a train, and caused damage to the nearby town of Port Chicago.
Facing confusion from industry, allies and partners about how they can best engage with military components and understand contractual and decision-making structures, the Defense Innovation Board is calling on Pentagon leadership to launch an internal reorganization and establish a new undersecretariat focused on international industrial cooperation.
During their open meeting on Wednesday, members of the panel agreed upon those and other recommendations, based on a study they were tasked with delivering, called Optimizing Innovation Cooperation with Allies and Partners.
Beijing is blaming the US for “ignoring” opposition to weapons sales to Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory.
The Islamic State group carried out more attacks in the first half of 2024 in Iraq and Syria than it did in all of 2023, officials at U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday as the terror group continues to reconstitute in the region. ISIS conducted 153 attacks in the first six months of 2024 — a rate of nearly one every day, CENTCOM said. That number is far ahead of the 121 attacks in 2023, a defense official told Task & Purpose on Wednesday.
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The Defense Department’s flagship digital modernization strategy included strategic goals that were not always “specific, verifiable and measurable,” potentially leading to performance gaps or changes in mission needs, according to a new audit from the Pentagon’s Inspector General.
At the same time, leadership and personnel turnover at the DOD Chief Information Office prohibited officials from conducting annual reviews of the strategy’s implementation, the probe found.
The U.S. military’s use of a post-World War II era floating pier system to deliver humanitarian assistance into Gaza has come to an end. The operation launched with high hopes of delivering aid by sea but numerous logistics setbacks and criticism of the effort as, at best, a band aid for the depravations in Gaza and, at worst, a dodge for applying diplomatic pressure to force Israel to open more land crossings.
The U.S. military’s mission involving the pier is officially finished but U.S. assets are still helping with aid coordination in Israel, officials said Wednesday.
Last summer, an Illinois National Guard soldier collapsed just as he finished the 2-mile run for a fitness test at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Spc. Nathaniel Jefferson, 38, was rushed to the hospital, along with a second soldier suffering from heat exhaustion, where he died. But Army researchers hope that a new system that combines sensors and data from the training of elite military units in hot weather can be a key tool for avoiding the kind of heat injuries that killed Jefferson and the hundreds of heat strokes that knock soldiers out of action every year.