In a US Department of War update, a senior US military official confirmed the start of B-52 bombing runs over Iran.
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The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah was reported by multiple Israeli sources to have launched a Scud ballistic missile attack on Palmachim Airbase in Israel, likely using a Scud-D or similar modernised Scud variant, marking the first ever ballistic missile attack to be launched from Lebanon in the country’s history. This follows Israel’s full scale invasion of Southern Lebanon in early March, after Israel and the United States’ launch of a sustained high intensity assault on Hezbollah’s strategic partner Iran on February 28.
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The already long deployment for the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier could last 11 months, Chief of Naval Operations ADM Daryl Caudle said.
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ADM Daryl Caudle’s Fighting Instructions aims to guide the Navy’s future, but it does not make the tradeoffs or force-design decisions a true strategy…
In late 2024, Chinese models accounted for one percent of global AI workloads. By the end of 2025, that figure had surged to 30 percent. Alibaba’s Qwen family now boasts over 700 million downloads, making it the world’s largest provider of “open-source” AI systems that are publicly released and capable of being downloaded and run locally.
What if the next war is decided not by drone swarms, hypersonic missiles, or AI — but by good, old-fashioned human creativity? We have undervalued the mindset dimension that is critical to innovation yet it is the cornerstone of defense organizations’ adaptability and very difficult to scale. We cannot buy (military) innovators.One of the most important shifts happening inside NATO today is not a drone platform, a software suite, or a breakthrough in AI — it is the growing recognition that innovation is a transferable skill between people.
America’s war against Iran has sparked heated debates over U.S. strategic priorities, military objectives, and defense industrial capacity. It has also fueled speculation about how a hypothetical clash between the United States and the People’s Republic of China might unfold. Tehran’s ability to launch salvo after salvo of simple attack drones reflects current thinking about how the proliferation of cheap, easily producible precision weapons is changing the character of war, and previews some of the challenges that Washington might confront in a fight with Beijing.