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Veterans worried about the quality of leadership are counseling young family members not to join up.
The U.S. government has confirmed that North Korea has sent about 3,000 of its soldiers to Russia since October, and you can bet they are going to do more than just send poop balloons into Ukraine.
“We do not yet know whether these soldiers will enter into combat alongside the Russian military, but this is certainly a highly concerning probability,” National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s spy chief Lt. Gen.
Africa presents a uniquely complex challenge for China. Political instability — wars, coups, civil unrest — poses challenges that may undermine China’s peaceful rise and compel it to deploy military and security forces to protect its investments and own economic development. Without the stability provided by market capitalism, democracy, and the rules-based order, China faces a choice between failure or neocolonialism.
Access decisions play a crucial role in large-scale conflicts and yet the decision-making process of potential host nations has largely been unexplored. Rick talks with TNSR author Emily Ellinger about how leaders consider regime survival, economic repercussions, and potential retaliation when making access decisions. Image: service de photographie des armees france via Wikimedia Commons
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In Australia’s Jervis Bay this week, military and industry officials from that Pacific nation, the U.S. and U.K., joined by observers from Japan, are engaging in a multi-day demo and technology showcase to advance a wide variety of AI-enabled drones, integration platforms and other emerging warfare capabilities needed to support real-world conflict and deterrence operations.
Military families move all over the country and the world every three years. Some families move sooner than that depending on their military path.
We all stress over setting up our household goods appointments, plan around our pack-out dates, book transportation, find new schools at our next duty station, call new health providers, say farewell to the friendships we have made and search for a different job.
We try to prepare ourselves emotionally and physically for what is to come.
Army officials arrested a “person of interest” Thursday in the death of a Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri soldier whose body was found in a dumpster earlier this week.
Army investigators told Task & Purpose Wednesday that they were investigating the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, 23, as a homicide.
The arrest came hours after Army officials said they had identified a ‘person of interest’ in the case, but gave no details about their identity or connection to Roque.
Roque was reported missing Monday when she did not show for a morning formation.
Millennium Space Systems will deliver six more satellites for the Space Force’s upcoming medium-Earth orbit (MEO) missile warning and tracking constellation, the service’s acquisition arm announced Wednesday.
Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Millennium, a Boeing subsidiary, a second contract valued at $386 million for the service’s Resilient Missile Warning and Missile Tracking – MEO (MEO MW/MT) effort. Under both the new agreement and one previously given to the firm in 2023, Millennium will deliver a total of 12 space vehicles for the first phase of the program, known as Epoch 1.
After testing networking and command-and-control capabilities aboard airborne platforms, the Army could be sending those packages outside the U.S. for further feedback from units.
Historically, aerial platforms only had chat functions and could only send position location information. But this summer, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division conducted a 500-mile air assault from its home station at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Fort Johnson, Louisiana, to kick off its Joint Readiness Training Center rotation.