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The latest procurement is part of the Army’s broader modernisation initiative.

Marshall Kosloff talks with Paul Sparrow about his book, “Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy.” Image: National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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On Nov. 16, U.S. and Chinese leaders met on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, jointly affirming “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons.” This declaration echoes a joint document submitted by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review process in 2022. With countries increasingly prioritizing military applications of AI, integrating AI into nuclear weapons systems is becoming a distinct possibility, especially as nuclear arsenals undergo modernization.

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Three Fort Cavazos soldiers have been arrested after they allegedly took part in a conspiracy to smuggle people into the country illegally.
On Nov. 27, a U.S. Border Patrol agent attempted to pull over the vehicle in Presidio, Texas, along the Rio Grande.
The vehicle fled and hit a second Border Patrol vehicle, injuring the agent inside, according to court documents…
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a new classified strategy this week that outlines the Pentagon’s contemporary approach for countering on-the-rise, adversarial drone threats that continue to pose urgent risks to U.S. military personnel and assets — domestically and abroad.
During a briefing with reporters on Thursday, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder announced the limited release of this new holistic and enterprise-wide plan for confronting certain potentially harmful uncrewed systems, which he noted are “changing how wars are fought.

Slightly more than half of Americans have a “great deal of confidence” in the U.S. military, an increase from a year ago after several years of sharp drops, a national survey found. However, the level of trust between Americans and their military is still far below where it was during years of active combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Every year, the United Service Organizations (USO) creates special, meaningful programming for our military members and families around the world in hopes of making their seasons bright. With deployed personnel, men and women stationed far from home, the USO aims to create a little bit of holiday magic in hopes of easing the distance.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has put forth new legislation aimed at promoting more competition for the Pentagon’s cloud and artificial intelligence contracts.
The Protecting AI and Cloud Competition in Defense Act, introduced by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., strives for “meaningful regulation to limit Big Tech monopolies from elbowing out competitors in the AI and cloud computing markets,” according to a press release issued Thursday by Warren’s office.
“Right now, all of our eggs are in one giant Silicon Valley basket.

A soldier who was injured during a January drone attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22 was awarded a Purple Heart this week.
On the morning of Jan. 28, Sgt. Aneska S. Holness woke up buried under rubble at Tower 22, an outpost in Jordan, after a drone slammed into her containerized housing unit. Despite being injured, Holness climbed out of the debris and “quickly worked to help her comrades out of rubble,” according to an Army news release.

The fate of the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet will be decided by the upcoming Trump administration, according to the Pentagon.
“The Secretary of the Air Force will defer the Next Generation Air Dominance way ahead decision to the next administration, while the Department of the Air Force continues its analysis and executes the necessary actions to ensure decision space remains intact for the NGAD program,” DAF spokesperson Ann Stefanek said in a statement Thursday.