On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched major, ongoing strikes against Iran — including killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials. In response, Iran has launched strikes against U.S. military sites, Israel, and economic and civilian targets in Arab Gulf states. The scale of this war will have global consequences. As world leaders adjust to a new reality in the Middle East and what it means for their countries, we asked five experts to assess the international reaction.Read more below.
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Combined U.S. and Israeli air forces have established near-complete air superiority over Iranian airspace, as strikes continued into the sixth day of the renewed conflict that began Feb. 28, 2026.
The campaign follows the brief Twelve-Day War in June 2025, when Israel — later joined by limited U.S. support — targeted Iranian nuclear sites, missile facilities and air defenses. That earlier clash, which ended in a U.S.
The Army is granting more direct commissions to civilians in high-tech fields like cyber, artificial intelligence, and space. The majority will come in as company grade officers and will be assigned to operational units, officials said.
The plan to put these new soldiers in uniform is an expansion of a program that directly commissioned four Silicon Valley executives into the Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels last June. Those four joined a program the Army called “Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.
The US Army has awarded Yank Technologies a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to further develop a wireless charging system for warfighter wearable batteries in Department of Defense (DoD) military vehicles.
In his 2025 article, “Start Making Sense, Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration,” Joshua Rovner argued Trump’s flexible approach to a grand strategy could be a strategic problem in the event of war. A year later, amidst an escalating conflict in the Middle East, we asked Joshua to revisit his argument.
The Office of Budget Responsibility says an increase in defence spending is now “necessary” amid the geopolitical unrest.
Operation Epic Fury has seen extensive U.S. military action against the Iranian regime within Iran’s borders. Precision air and naval strikes have struck command and control centers, ballistic missile sites, and even Iranian Navy vessels. While these types of military actions have been seen in modern combat, the Pentagon confirmed an action that the United States hasn’t conducted in decades: a submarine torpedo kill.
A legendary Reconnaissance Marine who saved his nine-man team during an ambush in South Vietnam is one step closer to receiving the Medal of Honor.
The Senate has passed a bill that would waive the award’s time requirement for retired Maj. James Capers Jr., who was shot twice and suffered 17 shrapnel wounds and other injuries during the April 1967 ambush. Not only did Capers lead his team to safety, but he twice tried to get out of the helicopter carrying the rest of his teammates so that it would be light enough to take off, and had to be pulled back inside by his men.
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The United States Navy’s submarine service is easily the most powerful ever fielded in the history of submarine warfare.
Consisting of Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, and Ohio-class boats, this all-nuclear force is silent and deadly, prowling the world’s waterways without anybody the wiser.
Related: Why America’s World War II torpedoes were horribleWhile the unlimited range and the quiet, very stealthy nature of these combat vessels makes them incredibly dangerous, their armament plays the biggest part in making them the most lethal killing machines traversing the oceans today.
More than 80 years ago, the USS Yorktown took a pair of torpedo hits from the Japanese submarine I-168 and slipped to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. She came to rest nearly three miles down, taking 141 of her crew with her.
The rest of her story—the Coral Sea, the improbable 72-hour repair at Pearl Harbor, the strikes that sent three Japanese carriers to the bottom at Midway—is well documented. What wasn’t as well-documented was the massive mural painted somewhere deep in her guts, a mural that depicted the ship’s entire story.