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Air Superiority over Battlefields Demands Both Standoff and Penetrating Airpower
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A Washington inmate used jail phones to call VA medical centers and convince staff members to hand over personal information of seriously ill veterans receiving care at the hospitals.
With a second call, the inmate then tried to scam their close relatives out of money.
Repeating the same scam over 60 times, Darryl Lamont Young, 41, took family members of sick veterans for $8,900 between late 2021 and early 2023, a federal jury in Seattle found Monday. The jury convicted Young of 14 counts of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud in the scam after a four-day trial.
The relationship between Congress and the Pentagon over the past year has been marked by public disagreements and frustrations over lawmakers’ concerns about the Iran War, and by what some lawmakers view as politically motivated firings of top military leaders. In many ways, the House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act reflect lawmakers’ efforts to check the Pentagon’s policy power.Innovation efforts are generally a bright spot in these political battles.
Nothing reveals truths more effectively than patterns. If you can identify a pattern, you can see what actions conceal, what statements leave unsaid, and what agreements postpone. Peace treaties and the negotiations surrounding them are rarely analyzed in this way, even though they may exhibit patterns that recur across different circumstances.
Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. The special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page.The United States is fighting a new kind of global competition — over supply chains, chips, and sanctions. It barely has anyone trained to fight it.
Newly released footage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, Sichuan, has provided the clearest look at its design features developed around the requirement for operating fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. The footage has reinforced assessments made over the past five years that China is pioneering an entirely new type of warship – the world’s first drone carrier. This follows the warship’s first deployment to the South China Sea in April, and the appearance of unmanned flying wing stealth fighters on its deck in February.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth via the Pentagon released a statement announcing the requirement for testosterone tests to optimize warfighter performance.
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell, on Enhanced Screening Protocol to Optimize Warfighter Performance and Enhance Force Readiness
The Department of War is committed to building and maintaining a ready, lethal fighting force prepared to dominate the battlefield and achieve peace through strength.
The Royal Saudi Air Force launched a failed cruise missile strike on Sana’a International Airport in Yemen, with its apparent objective of disabling the airport’s runway having not been achieved as multiple British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles missed their target. Approximately ten Storm Shadow missiles were launched from long ranges by Saudi Eurofighters in an attempt to render the runway unusable, but the attack reportedly failed to inflict decisive damage sufficient to shut down operations.