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The longstanding shadow conflict between Iran and Israel has entered a new, more dangerous phase of open confrontation. For decades, both nations engaged in covert operations and proxy warfare in what was known as the “campaign between wars.” Hamas’ devastating attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, upended this dynamic. In subsequent months, Israel assassinated several key figures in the Axis of Resistance — Iran’s network of non-state allies and proxies — as well as senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders.

Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office technologists who produced the Pentagon’s first “Responsible AI” toolkits are set to help steer multiple activities that will contribute to the early implementation of the new White House memo guiding federal agencies’ adoption of trustworthy algorithms and models for national security purposes, according to defense officials involved.

A Marine F-35B pilot made a mistake when he ejected from his high-tech and uber-expensive fighter, which continued to fly for more than 11 minutes before it crashed near Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina in September 2023, a Marine Corps investigation found.
Because the plane kept flying after the pilot ejected, it took searchers about 30 hours to find where it crashed. The Marine Corps was widely trolled on social media after Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina asked for the public’s help in finding the missing aircraft, prompting countless memes.

It started as a “wacky idea.”
Now, coming up on its fourth year of execution, the Navy has gone from 17 technologies in year one to nearly 70 technologies for its Silent Swarm experimentation initiative, which aims to test emerging electromagnetic spectrum tech with unmanned systems, run by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division.
The exercise team just conducted the downselect for next year’s event, choosing close to 70 technologies from 156 submissions.

The Army has charged a fellow soldier with the murder of Sgt. Sarah Roque after she was found dead at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri last week.
On Wednesday, the Army Office of Special Trial Counsel charged Spc. Wooster Rancy, 21, with murder and obstructing justice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Army officials said in a release.
Rancy, originally from Miami, Florida, is being held in pretrial confinement and is awaiting a preliminary hearing. 
He currently serves as a combat engineer with the 509th Clearance Company, 5th Engineer Battalion.

Dennis Franz, the star of the long-running and highly acclaimed NYPD Blue and a supporting actor in the popular and enduring series Hill Street Blues, turned 80 on October 28. He has had a long and interesting career in Hollywood in film and TV. Before he made his way into Tinsel town, Franz served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He served with noteworthy units such as the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne and served 11 months in the country. Franz served in reconnaissance during the war and suffered from depression after his service.

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The Biden administration recently reported that there are 8,000 North Korean Soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia, close to Ukraine. They are allegedly there to assist Russia in its war against Ukraine.
America’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations stated, “We just received some information, just coming in now, that right now there are some 8,000 DPRK soldiers in Kursk Oblast.” DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea as commonly known worldwide.

This is Chapter 3 in the Transition Memoir. Catch up here.
Although my official transition out of the military didn’t begin until after my husband completed an eight-week training, it was the catalyst that began the downward swing of emotions and was the beginning of the end of feeling confident I was going to be okay after leaving the military behind. I had no idea what was coming or how hard it would be and how even after he returned the turn of events would leave my confidence shattered and my emotions a mess that I didn’t know how to pick through and move forward.

In 2020, David Pion-Berlin and Andrew Ivey wrote “Civil-Military Lessons from Latin America,” which argued that militaries can publicly dissent from orders that endanger military professionalism and human rights while protecting professional standards and preventing democratic backsliding. In the wake of additional cases of civil-military strain in Latin America over the last four years, we asked David and Andrew to revisit their article.

U.S. Special Operations Command updated its technical areas of interest in a broad agency announcement to include additional autonomous capabilities that could aid commandos with their missions.
The changes to the BAA came in an amendment posted Thursday on Sam.gov.
A new subsection, dubbed “collaborative autonomy,” is part of the document’s list of disruptive technologies that officials are eyeing.