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An article this week in the London Daily Telegraph by former British Army tank commander and chemical and biological weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon takes on the eternal question of which European country does better than the others in the intelligence game.
The subject could not have come up at a better time, as the intelligence aspects of the Ukraine war are no small factor in this conflict.
Two crew members aboard an AH-64E Army Apache helicopter from Fort Hood, Texas, were killed when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday, a Fort Hood news release says.
Both soldiers’ names are being withheld pending next of kin notification, the news release says. The soldiers will be transported to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
“Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families, friends, and fellow Troopers of those involved during this incredibly difficult time,” Brig. Gen.
Marking a major move to overhaul the sprawling innovation ecosystem that underpins the U.S. military’s potentially eroding technological edge, the second Trump administration initiated a swift internal shakeup early this year that unified operational authorities and fragmented modernization work directly under the Defense Department’s Research and Engineering undersecretariat.
Specifics on organizational, personnel and financial changes associated with that realignment were sparse in the months that followed the Pentagon’s announcement — but new details are beginning to surface.
The Marine Corps has identified Pvt. Aiden Craig as the recruit who died on Aug. 5 after a medical emergency four days earlier during a physical fitness test at Camp Pendleton, California.
Craig, 18, posthumously earned the title of Marine, said Steven Posy, a spokesperson for Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
Originally from Texas, Craig enlisted in the Marines on June 1, 2026, according to his service record, which was provided to Task & Purpose.
He was hospitalized at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California, at the time of his death, a Marine Corps news release says.
SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force are the most highly trained elite forces in the U.S. military.
Both are Special Missions Units (SMU) under the control of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). They perform various clandestine and highly classified missions around the world. Each unit can equally perform various types of operations, but their primary mission is counterterrorism.
Navy officials said they have “not identified” an increase in suicidal ideation or attempts aboard an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East — a statement that conflicts with media reports and statements by military family members about the declining morale and mental health among the crew.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier left for its deployment to the Middle East in November.
Progress on the Defense Department’s ambitious Golden Dome missile defense architecture is at risk of being delayed due to budget instability headed into fiscal 2027, according to the top general leading the effort.
“Both sides of the aisle — as well as the House and the Senate — are working through the math about how you do this in ‘27. If they don’t figure it out, there is no Golden Dome because there is no funding,” Gen. Michael Guetlein, the project’s director, said Tuesday during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
The skies over the Donbass have become one of the most contested battlespaces in modern warfare — and this footage shows exactly why.
A Russian soldier manning a dual machine gun desperately tracks a Ukrainian drone weaving and diving over a military convoy, unleashing burst after burst in a frantic attempt to bring it down. The drone holds its line. The gunner keeps firing.
This is the new face of ground warfare — not tanks rolling across open plains, but cheap unmanned systems hunting armored columns at low altitude while soldiers scramble to find an angle of fire.
Iran is reportedly set to receive hundreds of portable anti-air missile systems from China, as peace talks with the United States stall.
Reuters says three sources informed it of the impending plans, which China’s Foreign Ministry has firmly denied.
A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 23rd Bomb Squadron sits on the flightline during exercise Prairie Vigilance 25-1 at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 12, 2025. Vigilance series exercises are conducted with a focus on the safe and secure handling of equipment. (U.S.
Ukraine Hits Last Major Russian Black Sea Fleet Stronghold – Ukraine launched one of its most ambitious attacks on Russia’s Black Sea military infrastructure yet, striking the naval base at Novorossiysk overnight with a combination of aerial and naval drones and missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the strikes in a statement, describing them as a “unique operation” against the “last major stronghold of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea.