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While many Americans think of summer as the perfect season to hit the pool for a float, U.S. service members in the Pacific are thinking about what they’re going to sink. In live fire exercises dubbed “SINKEXs,” troops in the region have already sunk two ships from the air and the land, with one big aquatic finale expected before Labor Day.
In June, the Army tested its ability to sink ships with land-based weapons against one retired warship, the USS Cleveland, as part of Valiant Shield 2024.

Almost ten years in the making, a massive bronze relief sculpture that will serve as the National World War I Memorial is on its way to the U.S. this week. The memorial features 38 larger-than-life figures, each of which tell part of the story of an American soldier leaving for war and, later, returning. To correctly capture facial expressions of horror, determination, and experience on the bronze figures, the artist behind the wall used modern combat veterans as models.
The 58-foot-long, 10-foot-tall sculpture will sit in Pershing Park in Washington D.C.

The brigadier general in charge of the New Hampshire Air National Guard was killed Monday in a hit-and-run accident near his home, the NHANG said Tuesday.
Brig. Gen. John Pogorek, 57, had been the commander of the NHANG since June 2022. A career tanker pilot, he previously commanded the 157th Air Refueling Wing, the NHANG’s primary flying unit. The wing’s 133rd Refueling Squadron flies KC-46 tankers from Pease Air National Guard Base outside Portsmith. The wing transititioned from Cold War-era KC-135 tankers to KC-46s under Pogorek’s direction.

The recent presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden may be more consequential than many thought.
For some, the debate underscored what conservatives have fretted about for a long time: Biden’s cognitive struggles are becoming a serious concern. 
For others, it was a wake-up call. Will Joe make it another four years? Four months? Four weeks? If not, who will take the reins?
Left to Jill Biden, the next four years could be a sequel to “Weekend at Bernie’s,” with Dr.

As it works to promote transatlantic security and deter aggression, NATO must strategically grow its collective defense industrial capacity and rapidly adopt interoperable drones and other emerging military capabilities like those the U.S. is presently hustling to field and scale, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said.
Speaking at the NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Hicks reflected on some recent progress and the “pivotal moment” the alliance is now confronting. 
“[T]his is not the Cold War, or the post-Cold War era.

The M109A7 and M992A3 are components of the US Army’s armoured brigade combat teams, embodying tracked combat vehicles.

Members of NATO and the commercial sector need to enhance cooperation to improve data security, senior officials suggested Monday on the eve of the alliance’s summit in Washington.
The summit, which kicks off Tuesday, is expected to include discussions and potentially major announcements about the road ahead for digital capabilities
Gen. Chris Badia, NATO’s deputy supreme allied commander transformation, noted that the transatlantic partners need to plan for warfighting in five domains — air, land, sea, space and cyber.

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As Boeing pleads guilty for fatal 737 MAX crashes, the DoD has initiated talks over the prime’s lucrative government contracts.

Lithuania has ordered more RBS 70 NG air defence systems from Saab as part of its joint procurement agreement with the Swedish FMV.