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The Pentagon has partially backpedaled on its voluntary flu vaccine policy, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in April, handing at least some control of vaccine policy back to the services.
The reversal appears to underlie a series of exemptions issued by the Pentagon to Hegseth’s recent announcement that flu vaccines are voluntary for all troops. Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that exemptions to the order had been issued to all four services.

The French Ministry of the Armed Forces has increased its procurement of Harmattan AI’s Sonora short-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems, placing an order for 5,000 additional units.

The Pentagon opted to purchase Casepoint’s AI-enabled software products for classified legal operations and secure data workflows via a new blanket purchase agreement worth up to $98.8 million, officials from the company announced Wednesday.
“Government agencies are facing a perfect storm of challenges,” Casepoint’s CEO Paul Colangelo told DefenseScoop ahead of the announcement. “The volume of information they manage continues to grow exponentially, while expectations around transparency, accountability, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance continue to increase.

The United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus, a government in exile that was formed in 2022, warned on June 22 that President Alexander Lukashenko may be preparing to join the war in Ukraine.

The Belarusian leader appears to have had his hand forced, following years of efforts to keep his country out of the conflict.

Putin on June 24 2023 Russian Federation Photo

What Was Said
In a statement published on Telegram, the government in exile claimed that information provided to Kyiv suggested Lukashenko was “systematically” preparing Belarus for war.

Russia’s dead can be buried quietly, in distant regions, with little fanfare and less press. It’s wounded cannot. After four years of grinding war in Ukraine, the larger share of Russia’s casualties are not the dead but the wounded, hundreds of thousands of men who survived and are coming home missing limbs, carrying shrapnel, blinded, burned, or broken in ways that will require care for the rest of their lives. They are the cost of the war that Vladimir Putin cannot censor, because they live in every region of the country, visible to their neighbors and their families.

Navy Cmdr. John Rodgers and his four-person crew didn’t have much time left.
It didn’t start out that way. They were aboard PN-9 No. 1, a flying boat that left San Francisco on August 31, 1925, with history in mind. Rodgers, pilot Lt. Byron Connell, Chief Radioman Otis Stantz, Chief Machinist’s Mate Skiles Pope, and Aviation Machinist’s Mate William Bowlin were attempting to complete the first nonstop flight from the American mainland to Hawaii.

U.S. military leaders have repeatedly tried to assure troops and the American public that artificial intelligence, or AI, is not going to replace human beings as the final decision-makers on when to carry out a military strike. But the extent to which AI will be involved in the “kill chain” remains fluid, even as the technology continues to be used in combat. 
During recent combat operations against Iran, the U.S.

The latest round of friction within the NATO alliance will see American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leading a review of the American troop presence in Europe. Slated to last for six months, the close examination of how deeply America will be involved in European defense in the future has caused some consternation on the European side of the alliance.

Rheinmetall has been awarded a contract by the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) to supply 23 armoured recovery vehicles of the Bergepanzer 3 series.

Daniel Terrill, Marine Corps Times