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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has deployed its first warship built primarily to deploy unmanned aircraft, the Type 076 class aircraft carrier Sichuan, for its first ever cross-regional training mission in the South China Sea. This follows multiple earlier sea trials, the first of which began on November 14, 2025, and is in line with the ship’s planned development schedule. The landmark trials have been assessed by local analysts to mark rapid and efficient progress towards service entry.

The U.S. military is firing million-dollar missiles at Iranian drones that cost a tiny fraction as much — a striking example of the kind of overmatch modern warfare punishes.The Department of Defense’s approach to electromagnetic spectrum policy follows a similar logic, occupying prime mid-band frequencies for vital but relatively low-throughput national security uses — including radars, satellite communications, navigation, and electronic warfare — even as those same bands could generate much larger commercial, allied, and strategic returns.

Closing small boat stations has proven difficult. Leaving them unchanged is operationally inefficient. These units are enduring parts of the Coast Guard’s force structure, yet their full potential is not always realized. This article proposes a model to better align their mission with national priorities.During the recent Senate confirmation hearing for the next commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, senators raised a wide range of global maritime concerns, including Arctic competition, cyber threats targeting ports, migration pressures, and increasingly severe storms.

The U.S. Armed Forces depleted their stockpiles of critical missiles to dangerous levels during the country’s seven week war against Iran, resulting in a “near term risk” that could leave it vulnerable, according to a new assessment published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

France and Poland are preparing to conduct exercises over the Baltics involving Rafale fighter jets equipped with nuclear warheads, which will simulate strikes on targets in Russia and Belarus. The Rafale fighters will be deployed on Polish territory, but will remain entirely under French control. The deployment is reportedly related to plans for a nuclear sharing agreement under which Poland will gain access to French nuclear warheads, possibly to equip its F-16 or F-35A fighters.

The Finnish Defence Ministry has reported that the government has submitted a proposal to parliament to allow the import of nuclear weapons and their storage in the country. This development follows years of speculation that the country could enter a nuclear sharing agreement with the United States, following a decision in December 2021 to procure 64 F-35A fighters, which are well optimised for nuclear delivery, and after the country joined NATO in April 2023.

Federal authorities have arrested and charged an Army Special Forces soldier with using classified information to place bets on the Jan. 3 raid that whisked Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro out of a secure compound and into U.S. custody.
Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, placed bets that totaled about $33,000 on the timing of U.S. operations in Venezuela, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. He allegedly netted more than $409,000 in winnings through Polymarket.

It’s no secret that Operation Epic Fury and the associated war in the Middle East have sparked major disruptions in the complex, global logistics network that U.S. Transportation Command relies on to move, equip and support the joint force.
But according to its commander Air Force Gen. Randall Reed, those disturbances are also enabling Transcom and its military partners to integrate and refine their joint logistics operations, and expand deployments of real-time data and AI-enabled visualization assets.

Defense officials recently used the Pentagon’s enterprise-wide generative artificial intelligence platform to create 100,000 agents amid a broader push by department leadership to speed up AI adoption, according to a senior member of the research and engineering directorate.
The Pentagon first introduced its GenAI.mil platform for its workforce in December, with the aim of providing commercial tools to millions of personnel across the DOD. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CTO Emil Michael have both championed the capability and encouraged its widespread use.

An Army veteran attempting to wield South Carolina law to sue a military contractor won a major Supreme Court victory Wednesday, carving out a narrow legal lane for those seeking to hold wartime contractors to account.
The ruling allows a former soldier to use state injury laws to sue Fluor Corporation, a contractor whose Afghan employee gravely wounded him in a 2016 suicide bombing.