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The Army’s request comes amid concerns over the Pentagon draining its weapon stockpiles during Operation Epic Fury

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This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Jeffrey E. Stern, an award-winning journalist and author of the newly released The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare, which details the development of Paveway, the precision-guided bomb. We asked him to share his thoughts on the bomb’s history and its role in air campaigns, and the relationship between government, science, and industry. You spent years researching and writing this book about Paveway, a relatively underdiscussed weapon.

Somewhere behind the Novodarivka breach point in June 2023, Ukrainian armored formations sat staged and ready. The ammunition was there. The fuel was there. The original concept of operations called for 12 brigades to push through roughly 30 kilometers of frontage, isolate Tokmak within days, and drive south before Russian forces could consolidate. They never moved. The engineers could not open the lane. Without the lane, none of the rest of it mattered.

uncomfortable truths are still truths
The rescue of the pilot and weapons sensor officer from the F-15E Strike Eagle that went down in Iran is—even with the limited information we have right now—an almost-unbelievable act in the history of the profession of arms.
I am looking forward to the details to come out, but let’s let that work its way through the system. That isn’t what I want to focus on today.
As always, let’s first look at the chart.

Personnel across the Army’s data teams have been “banging their heads against the wall” over information management issues and the service recently launched a new hub meant to help alleviate those headaches, senior military officials told reporters Tuesday.
The Army Data Operations Center went live April 3. A nucleus for network-focused staff across division-level units and above to call for help about connectivity or data issues, officials said the ADOC will free data teams from “red tape” so commanders can make quicker decisions.

Pete Hegseth Has A Problem: Trump Burned Through 4 Defense Secretaries in Term One. The Pattern Is Starting Again
Pete Hegseth was something of an unconventional choice to serve as secretary of defense.

Before his selection, Hegseth was best known as a Fox News host, although he had also led a couple of veterans groups. During Trump’s first term, Hegseth lobbied for leniency for soldiers accused of war crimes.

Hegseth’s confirmation process was tumultuous.

The Trump administration’s budget request for fiscal 2027 calls for significant funds to increase stockpiles of a long-range Army missile that’s been used during the United States’ ongoing war with Iran.
Recently released budget documents show that the Army is asking for nearly $2 billion to purchase more Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) in FY27 — nearly four-times the amount that Congress allocated in fiscal 2026, which was $546 million.

The American military launched more one-way attack drones last night against Iran, U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday, adding that “hundreds” of unmanned platforms have been involved in Operation Epic Fury in various roles to date.
Tuesday’s announcement comes several weeks after Centcom noted that it had employed long-range kamikaze drones in combat for the first time during the early days of the Iran war, which President Donald Trump commenced on Feb. 28.