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Elbridge Colby leads classified effort to expand shorter-range nuclear capabilities to deter China and Russia
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Strip the marketing off the BBGN program and you find one thing: a 35,000-ton floating power plant with sensors and weapons bolted to…
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Seth G. Jones, The Wall Street Journal
The Iran war proves it, and the Chinese threat is greater. We need new thinking about defense.
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The Marine Corps awarded self-described “neo-prime” Epirus $11 million for its high-powered microwave program, including a system the company says can attach to different vehicles to zap down drones swarms on the move.
The High-power Microwave Autonomous Vehicle Operation Capability, or HAVOC, is based off of the company’s Leonidas weapon and comes with a “universal sled mount” so it can append to different vehicles, according to the company.
Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.On the night of 24 March 1999, U.S.
The United States has bluntly signaled a deprioritization of the Indian Ocean at a peculiar time. The reversion of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command, signifies no material change in force posture or organizational responsibilities, but it unavoidably signals less focus on the Indian Ocean, presumably in favor of its consistent top priority in the western Pacific, although it’s not clear anyone really knows.
In April 2026, over a month after the United States launched its attack on Iran, leading to thousands of reprisal strikes across the Gulf, the United Arab Emirates shut down a network of money changers connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iranian exchange houses and the shell companies built around them — vehicles for laundering billions in offshore Dubai-based holdings and funneling funds to help Iran evade sanctions — are reported to have knowingly operated on Emirati soil for over a decade.Washington’s pivotal Gulf ally proved useful in the fallout of the Iran war.
A Ukrainian drone strike launched by the country’s Unmanned Systems Forces has destroyed a launcher from a Russian S-400 long range air defence system, which was deployed near the Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik in Russia’s Krasnodar region. According to Ukrainian sources, the launcher was part of a system that had carried out six ballistic missile launches against Ukraine the day before the strike. The drone strike was but part of a broader overnight operation that struck multiple Russian targets, including other air defence systems.