Steve Blank, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and educator, recently warned startup founders that if their company was built on assumptions from more than two years ago, their business plan may already be dead. The same is true of military plans.
Replace “startup” with “combatant command,” and the warning becomes existential.
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Swedish defence prime Saab has introduced the Bolide 2 missile for its RBS 70 short-range air defence (SHORAD) missile system.
As America faces a housing and skilled labor crisis, students and mentors work to build better hands-on futures for themselves and their communities in a new documentary series called “Building Back America’s Trades”—and two of those skilled professionals are military veterans.
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The series features Gordon Unrein, a Marine Corps veteran and longtime trades instructor at Columbus Technical College, alongside William Franks, a retired Air Force veteran and graduate of the program Gordon leads.
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Remotely triggered containerized drone swarms, potentially placed behind enemy lines, create a hard-to-defend-against threat from pretty much everywhere
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A combined Navy and Air Force program is seeking to build a smaller version of a ubiquitous air-to-air missile that could give advanced aircraft, such as the Collaborative…
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The Rapid Dragon program, now called Dragon Cart, transitioned to a Program of Record and will see cargo aircraft able to deploy palletized cruise missiles by 2027
The Iranian Navy has deployed lightweight attack submarines for operations the Strait of Hormuz, which are prized for their ability to manoeuvre in relatively shallow waters and for their quietness, making them optimal for strikes on adversary shipping. Iran first began to procure submarines ships from North Korea in the 1980s to strengthen its sea denial capabilities, representing one of multiple potentially high impact assets supplied by the East Asian state.
Talk of war in the Middle East abounds on social media, but not just about the one with Iran. A small, but significant, portion of this chatter relates to a conflict that has not begun. For more than a year now, pundits and politicians have warned of a potential clash between Israel and Turkey. Driving this hypothetical confrontation are a series of issues related to Syria, the Palestinian territories, and regional security as a whole. In December 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indirectly charged Ankara with wanting to reestablish Ottoman imperial rule over the Levant.