Britain’s four Vanguard-class ballistic-missile submarines carry the entire United Kingdom nuclear deterrent. Each 15,900-ton boat is powered by a Rolls-Royce PWR2 nuclear reactor, runs at more than 25 knots submerged, and carries up to 16 American-made Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The class — HMS Vanguard, HMS Victorious, HMS Vigilant, and HMS Vengeance — entered service between 1993 and 1999. The Royal Navy has kept at least one of them on patrol every single day since 1969.
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In March 1996, Bill Clinton sent two U.S. aircraft carriers — the USS Nimitz and USS Independence — into the Taiwan Strait to intimidate China during the island’s first direct presidential election. Beijing had no military answer. China backed down. That single humiliation became the organizing principle of thirty years of Chinese military investment in one thing above all else: missiles, and lots of them.
Little Debbie snacks, once an indirect victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, are finally back in Commissaries. Soccer teams and lunch boxes everywhere, rejoice. For those unfamiliar with the beloved, shelf-stable baked treats, Little Debbie is the brand that brings us Nutty Buddy, Oatmeal Creme Pies, Honey Buns, and of course, pure childhood joy.
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In 2022, family-owned McKee Foods Corp., makers of the Little Debbie line of prepackaged sweets, couldn’t keep their products on Commissary shelves due to supply costs.
Defence technology firms Echodyne and Moog have completed testing of counter-UAS systems designed to identify and engage small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) in battlefield conditions.
The USS Gerald R. Ford returned to Naval Station Norfolk on May 16, 2026, after a 326-day deployment — the longest American carrier deployment since the USS Coral Sea spent 329 days at sea in 1965. The Ford was scheduled for seven months but stretched to eleven across operations against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the opening of the air campaign against Iran. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle has openly opposed deployment extensions, telling the Surface Navy Association the practice disrupts funerals, marriages, and family planning.
The Pentagon selected Shield AI to integrate swarm technology onto the Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS), a one-way attack drone the U.S. military cloned from an Iranian variant, according to the company.
U.S. Central Command said it used the LUCAS for the first time in combat against Iran during Operation Epic Fury, though the military produced just dozens of the systems initially, according to the Pentagon’s chief technology officer in March.
Russia has become the most important enabler of North Korea’s nuclear program, according to a 38North assessment published May 13. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi told Seoul that Pyongyang is probably adding a new uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon. North Korea is estimated to possess roughly 50 nuclear warheads but still lacks a reliable ballistic missile delivery system.
Iran never aimed to close the Strait of Hormuz, Dr. Andrew Latham argues. Tehran built something far more useful — permanent uncertainty. Mines, shore-based anti-ship missiles, fast attack craft, and cheap drones make every transit a calculation rather than a routine. Global oil inventories dropped 250 million barrels across March and April. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve stood at roughly 384 million barrels in early May. The IEA projects Q2 drawdowns averaging 8.5 million barrels a day.
After a suggestion that AI might be the “holy grail” of future special operations, the general in charge of the U.S. military’s most elite combat forces had another pre-modern metaphor for the technology.
“This extends all the way back from the first stone thrown from the first sling,” Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, told an audience at SOF Week Tuesday in Tampa, Florida.
U.S. Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby announced May 18 that the Pentagon was pausing its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, the 86-year-old advisory body that has coordinated North American continental defense since 1940. Washington cited Canada’s failure to meet NATO’s 5% GDP defense spending target and incomplete progress on its commitment to buy 88 F-35s. Ottawa has so far ordered only 16 and is reviewing the remaining purchase amid trade tensions.