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Agentic AI is quickly moving from demo to deployment inside the Department of Defense. But what does it actually mean to give AI “agency” — and what does it take to make those systems work on real military networks?In this episode, Ryan sits down with Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence, Jags Kandasamy, co-founder and CEO of Latent AI, and Aaron Brown, co-founder and CEO of Lumbra AI, to discuss why the real challenge is not just building smart models but getting AI agents to run on military networks and inside operational workflows.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has purged dozens of senior People’s Liberation Army officers since mid-2023, including two in January, but will this increase the risk of war? The loss of experienced officers could make Xi less confident in how his military would perform, but his increased power could also provide him greater latitude to order troops into combat to achieve what might be a key legacy for him — the long-elusive unification of China with Taiwan. As political scientists recognize, competent leadership is a key ingredient of battlefield effectiveness.

When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the possibility of taking Greenland by force, European leaders reacted with outrage — and then, almost immediately, with relief once he backed down. Wolfgang Ischinger, the doyen of the Munich Security Conference, expressed similar relief when he described Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech there — chock full of conditionality on immigration and culture war tropes — as “reassuring.”That sentiment may prove far more dangerous than any threats from Washington.The trans-Atlantic partnership of days past no longer exists.

Footage from the U.S. Navy’s newest supercarrier the USS Gerald Ford on February 24 has showed a major flood of raw sewage flowing through the ship, following persistent issues of clogged toilets and backed-up sewage. This follows years of reports that the ship’s narrow pipes have frequently been blocked, triggering sewage system breakdowns across the ship. Issues reportedly worsened in January, while the carrier was deployed to the Caribbean to support an attack on Venezuela and the abduction of its president, Nicholas Maduro.

A Turkish Air Force pilot was killed on February 25, local time, after an F-16C fighter assigned to the 9th Main Jet Base Command in Balikesir crashed during a training flight near the west of the country. The incident occurred at around 1am, local time, with officials reporting radio contact with the fighter shortly after takeoff, prompting immediate search-and-rescue operations. The Turkish Defence Ministry stated that the exact cause of the accident remains unknown.

New video footage has provided a second look at the continued operations of a reported two delivered Su-57 fifth generation fighters in Algerian Air Force service, after the aircraft were reported in November 2025 to have become operational. This was followed by the release of the first footage of their operations in the first week of February. The Algerian Defence Ministry was estimated to have ordered 12-14 of the aircraft, which are speculated to be intended to replace Soviet MiG-25PD interceptors, the world’s fastest operational combat aircraft, in frontline service.

“I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
Well, that’s one way to make a memorable speech.
That line was part of a famous speech Gen. George S. Patton would deliver to troops before a battle, a screed historian Terry Brighton called “the greatest motivational speech of the war and perhaps of all time” in his book “Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War.”
The general would always deliver the speech without notes, so it changed slightly each time.

The Army dubbed seven soldiers champions of its first drone competition Friday, each taking home accolades in various categories as the service looks to build-out its unmanned aerial systems repertoire.
Dubbed the “Best Drone Warfighter Competition,” the three-day event in Huntsville, Alabama last week brought more than 100 soldiers from across the Army — including the National Guard and Reserve — to vie for the three top titles and a chance to join the service’s competitive UAS team.

Since October, an intelligence battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division has been using home-grown AI tools that unit leaders say reduce staff work and make it easier to support the “All American” requirement of being able to deploy anywhere across the globe within 18 hours.
Officials told DefenseScoop in a recent interview that they’ve used the capabilities — created in Maven Smart System — to aggregate personnel, equipment and property management information across the unit, reducing “the amount of monotonous staff work” for soldiers, according to Maj.

At first, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kenneth Rice did not know what to make of the bright orange and green flash.
A block away from where an atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, Rice was a prisoner of war at the time of the catastrophic explosion.
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“We were accustomed to B-29 bombers making attacks during the day and firebombing at night,” Rice recalled years later to The Record, a newspaper in his home state of Michigan. “But this was different, and a lot of us were confused and scared.