The Pentagon’s latest set of Navy promotions, advancing more than 20 Navy captains to one-star admiral, included zero women, reinvigorating a debate about the barriers women face in their climb to the highest rungs of the military.
Last week, the Pentagon released a list of 22 appointments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of Navy captains to rear admiral, lower half, which are one-star flag officers at the O-7 paygrade.
Promotion from captain to admiral is the first of the flag ranks among the naval officer corps, and is the most selective for officers in the Navy.
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U.S. Special Operations Command’s Joint Acquisition Task Force and the SOFWERX innovation hub are looking to partner with industry to develop a proving ground for autonomous systems.
Officials have selected NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi — a location used by special operations forces for training — as the site for the effort, according to a special notice posted on a government contracting website.
Vladimir Putin and his military are struggling. The army may be losing around 30,000 troops a month. Russian forces cannot maintain the initiative and are back on their heels. Ukraine is making great use of long-range one-way drones that continually sting Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky is also deploying excellent new homegrown ballistic and cruise missiles, such as the FP-5 Flamingo.
Russia Has Violated the Principles of Warfare
Ukraine Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
T-64 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Can Ukraine Prevail and Win the War Against Russia? The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than four years, and it appears, at least outwardly, that neither side is capable of winning the war strictly in a military sense. Most analysts believe that without Western support, Ukraine would lose the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to paint the “special military operation” as going to plan, but it has been anything but.
The Space Force’s acquisition arm has tapped SpaceX to expedite development of a proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation that’s expected to serve as the foundation of the Pentagon’s future space-based communications architecture.
The $2.29 billion Other Transaction Authority agreement announced by the service Tuesday evening is for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone. Per the contract, SpaceX is required to deliver a “fully operational prototype” by the end of 2027, according to a Space Systems Command press release.
Vladimir Putin and his senior military leadership did not believe they were starting a multi-year war in Ukraine when they attacked back in February, 2022. And to be honest, at the time, I agreed. Things did not look good for Kyiv, and I was very careful the night of the invasion to be supportive of Ukraine when I went on TV or radio when the news broke. I felt like Kyiv would be taken, and I said so on hit after hit on Fox News, but that Ukraine did have a chance to save their country if they fought an asymmetric war and made Putin pay a heavy price for every inch of land Russia took.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is often positioned as a comparatively lower-cost alternative to the F-35 Lightning II. Despite lacking comparable stealth systems, the Eurofighter is still a highly capable multi-role fighter.
Recent delivery tranches, such as tranches 4 and 5, have further enhanced the aircraft’s multi-role capabilities, with state-of-the-art avionics and electronic warfare suites.
Eurofighter Typhoon Training in Sky. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Summary and Key Points: This summer, the U.S. Navy will conduct an unprecedented test, exporting electricity from the USS Gerald R. Ford’s two A1B nuclear reactors to Naval Station Norfolk — the world’s largest naval base — to prove the carrier can keep the facility running if cyberattacks, missile strikes, or drone strikes take down the civilian power grid.
-Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed the plan at a May 14 House Armed Services Committee hearing, telling lawmakers “This summer, Norfolk Naval Base is going to be powered from an aircraft carrier.”
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Summary and Key Points: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims it has opened fire on an American F-35 stealth fighter, shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone, and forced an RQ-4 intelligence aircraft to retreat from Iranian airspace — claims neither U.S. Central Command nor independent observers have confirmed.
-The announcements followed U.S. self-defense strikes on Bandar Abbas, a southern Iranian port city on the Strait of Hormuz, targeting Iranian missile launch sites and IRGC boats reportedly attempting to lay mines.
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Tanks are officially evolving from heavy Cold War-era brawlers into networked, semi-autonomous battlefield systems that are built for drone-saturated combat zones rife with lethal anti-tank munitions. This evolution was a long coming. And the Russians were the first major power to make the shift (because they have been engaged in a major war in Ukraine since February 22, 2022).
Now, the Western powers are doing their best to catch up to the adaptations their rivals are making in the arena of tank warfare.
K3 Tank from South Korea National Security Journal Photo.