At his campaign town hall last night in Fayetteville, North Carolina, former President Trump was asked about how he’ll hold military leaders accountable by a former Special Forces Green Beret who said he was forced out of the military due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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Former Army soldier Cole Bridges was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday for his attempt to help ISIS ambush and kill American troops in the Middle East. The sentencing comes more than a year after Bridges pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support for ISIS.
Bridges, who also went by the name “Cole Gonzales,” was sentenced on Oct. 11 in New York. After his prison time is over, he will also serve 10 years of supervised release.
Mark Pomerleau, DefenseScoop
Service officials talked to DefenseScoop about how they expect their efforts to unfold.
Ian M. Sullivan, CIMSEC
It is the spring of 20XX, and the U.S. joint force is engaged in a major war against a peer competitor.
Ilan Berman, NI
In the wake of Iran’s massive missile attack on October 1st, Israel is grappling with a complex decision on how to respond effectively without escalating into a wider…
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While a powerful military force is made of tangible things like ships, planes, weapons, and ammunition, the real power of a military force is the intangible things like…
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The Army is targeting a limited prototyping activity in fiscal 2025 and a minimum viable product for new command-and-control capabilities by early fiscal 2026.
The efforts surround what the Army calls “Next Gen C2,” a top priority of the service’s highest leadership to include the chief of staff and Futures Command.
Officials have stated that current capabilities are not adequate to dominate on the modern battlefield against a sophisticated adversary. Thus, the service is attempting to overhaul how its systems are architected to improve data sharing and communications.
A fatal helicopter crash that killed two New York National Guard soldiers and a border patrol agent in March occurred seconds after the helicopter began to rotate in the air as it hovered nearly 200 feet up above the ground, Army officials determined.
However, the Army did not release details on why the helicopter began to spin or how the crew reacted.
During a routine flight near the U.S.-Mexico border, the UH-72 Lakota experienced “unanticipated yaw,” which caused it to rapidly fall 195 feet out of the sky into a crushing impact that killed both pilots and the border agent.