U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has initiated a major six-month review of American military presence in Europe, dubbed “NATO 3.0,” while significant cuts to U.S. forces assigned to the alliance are already taking effect, NATO officials confirmed Thursday.
The review aims to shift primary responsibility for European defense to European allies, with Hegseth stating that the assessment will identify which nations are prepared to step up and which are not. “Some countries will fail,” he told defense ministers, “while others will pass with flying colors.
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The Navy will keep its ships in the area around the Strait of Hormuz after lifting its blockade, U.S. Central Command said on Thursday, ending two months of a dual stoppage of the waterway.
“American forces are not impeding the transit of vessels to or from Iranian ports,” CENTCOM said in its announcement. “All U.S. military blockade enforcement efforts have ceased.”
The move comes after President Donald Trump signed an initial agreement to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking to NBC, a U.S. official confirmed that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire.
The news substantially increases the chances that Washington can agree to a lasting peace deal with Tehran over the next sixty days, as per the recently signed memorandum of understanding between the two countries.
Merkava Tank Israel. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The news follows an escalation between the militant group and Israeli forces that threatened the peace process.
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Scientists at the U.S.
Tyler Rogoway, TWZ
Radar pod-toting MQ-9s present an economical and highly-flexible persistent airborne early warning solution that is needed now more than ever.
Defense News Aerospace, Global Defense News
Boeing’s F-15EX Eagle II is poised to become one of the U.S.
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering
Autonomous wingmen, software-defined upgrades, and multi-aircraft teaming. Here’s what Shield AI’s latest Air Force contract means.
The Aviationist
The RQ-4Bs operated by the 4th Reconnaissance Squadron permanently relocated to Yokota AB, where they already deployed every year during the typhoon season
An influenza outbreak that started in late May has left nearly 160 Air Force recruits sick, with some hospitalized.
An Air Force spokesperson told Task & Purpose that the 37th Training Wing has been dealing with a “localized influenza outbreak among trainees at Basic Military Training” at Lackland Air Force Base. The flu outbreak has been going on for three weeks, the Air Force said, although training at the base has not been interrupted.
Warsaw, Poland – What Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his drone force commanders call their “middle-strike” campaign has become a series of merciless attacks on the main artery that provides supplies for both the population and the Russian military in Crimea. One swarm after another of wide-ranging drone aircraft is destroying hundreds of Russian fuel trucks, paralyzing truck and rail shipments of food, medicine, and other daily consumables.
This has put the Crimean Peninsula, an area roughly the size of the US state of Arizona, into what has become an almost total blockade.