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The Cuban Missile Crisis was an entirely avoidable, but potentially deadly period in Cold War history. In 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat in the Soviet Union, sent a telegram to President Harry S. Truman’s State Department about his view of the USSR’s aggression. It would come to define the United States’ relationship with the Soviets for the next 45 years.
Kennan wrote that the Soviets were “impervious to logic of reason… highly sensitive to the logic of force.” This outlook became the cornerstone of U.S.

The war with Iran has once again raised questions about Washington’s ability to prioritize its interests in East Asia and particularly to manage intensifying competition with Beijing. Furthermore, the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have presented American and Chinese leaders with new challenges and potential opportunities, as they respond to the war’s global impacts. We asked five experts to address how the war is shaping competition between Washington and Beijing.Read more below.

Air Force officials have launched a command-directed investigation into why at least two armed Security Forces airmen mistakenly entered a residence on Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, while a child was alone inside, a base spokesperson said. A video of the incident shows at least two officers entering the home with their service pistols drawn.
“We can confirm that on April 28, members of the 316th Security Forces Squadron entered the wrong home while armed, and a minor was present inside,” the Joint Base Andrews spokesperson told Task & Propose.

Northrop Grumman has secured a contract from the US Army for the second phase of development on the Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS).

Hanwha Defense USA is setting up an integration and test facility for its K9 Mobile Howitzers in Opelika, Alabama.

By October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was on the defensive. Allied forces in the Pacific had pushed back the gains Japan made in the years following its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the Marianas were captured as other island strongholds had been bypassed and isolated. American and Australian ships were headed for the Philippines.
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Japan’s Navy, desperate to show the Americans it could still fight (and thus prevent an invasion of the Japanese home islands), went all-in at Leyte Gulf.

A “sonic thump” may not have the same awesomeness factor as a sonic boom, but it still has the right stuff. And like it or not, it’s the new standard in supersonic flight. NASA’s Quesst mission (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) is demonstrating the ability to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without generating the sonic booms that come with breaking the sound barrier.

Taiwan’s defence budget is set to rise in the coming years, with its spending as a proportion of GDP rising to over 5% by 2031.

Chavez, Army T.

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This positions small USVs as forward sensors and logistics nodes in littoral warfare, supporting a broader shift toward networked, multi-domain…