AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Army’s top cyber officer revealed Wednesday the existence of a new task force dedicated to exploring the use of artificial intelligence in the service’s cyber command, from simple staff processes to agents “hunting” in the Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN).
Task Force Lexington was established in April and charged with creating AI agents for different cyber work roles, including developers, data engineers, host analysts and exploitation analysts, according to Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank, head of U.S. Army Cyber Command.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has returned to Moscow following a strange series of trips across Siberia and the far eastern regions of Russia amid speculation that the Kremlin was deliberately keeping him away from areas most likely to be hit by Russian drones.
But Putin’s return changes nothing about the reality of the ongoing Ukrainian strikes, which are crippling Russia’s energy industry and causing major logistical headaches for businesses all over the country.
The Pentagon is considering a major reduction or relocation of American forces in the Persian Gulf after nearly six months of war with Iran exposed just how vulnerable some of the United States’ largest military bases in the region are.
The discussions could ultimately result in U.S.
The Pentagon’s new comprehensive report on the state of America’s defense research enterprise spotlights severe structural, logistical and bureaucratic vulnerabilities undermining the military’s technological edge.
“The average age of laboratory facilities across all the Services is greater than 45 years, with most built during the Cold War era,” it states. “These facilities are past their traditional life expectancies and the methods and requirements of conducting research in the 21st century is beyond their capabilities.
The Army has awarded Hanwha Defense USA, a subsidiary of South Korea-headquartered Hanwha Aerospace, $100 million for mobile tactical cannon prototypes as part of a deal that could be worth up to nearly $263 million.
The service announced the other transaction agreement, which has an estimated four-year period of performance, Tuesday evening.
The move represents a confluence of two Army goals: boosting its long-range firepower for modern battlefields and expanding the defense industrial base.
A French Air Force Rafale intercepted a specialised command-and-communications variant of the Russian Tu-214 aircraft over the Baltic Sea, with the fighter deployed to the region as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission. The intercepted aircraft has been identified as Tu-214PU RA-64534, operated by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which belongs to the Russian government’s Rossiya Special Flight Detachment that operates aircraft for senior political, military and security officials.
The United Arab Emirates has suspended all trade and financial transactions with Iran, severing one of Tehran’s most critical remaining economic links.
The announcement comes after Iran was accused of launching two ballistic missiles toward maritime traffic near Emirati territorial waters.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Nick “Laz” Le Tourneau, pilot and commander of the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team, performs an aerial demonstration at Air Dot Show Tour Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 9, 2026. Capt.
Trump Declares Strait of Hormuz ‘Open’ – President Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is “open and operating.” On Tuesday, he went a step further, sharing a map that labeled the strategic waterway “NEW U.S. Territory.”
Only six commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, according to Kpler data reported by Reuters. That was down from nine a day earlier and well below normal pre-war traffic, when roughly 130 to 140 vessels passed through Hormuz each day.
President Donald J. Trump holds a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joined by War on the Rocks membership editor Kerry Anderson for a state-of-play conversation on the conflict between the United States and Iran. They consider why the fighting has settled into a stalemate and dig into which figures in the Iranian regime have influence over Iran’s approach to the war. Afshon unpacks the implications of Mohsen Rezaei’s recent appointment as head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, before the two look ahead to what comes next.
President Donald J. Trump, at least according to a Reuters poll this week, has the lowest approval rating of his second presidency and is tied for the lowest across both of his presidencies. The war in Iran, which Trump launched and with which he is closely associated, is also wildly unpopular; there’s not much confidence among anyone in either party that the United States will be able to pull itself out of that conflict anytime soon.
Therefore, the Iran War, along with rising gas prices and related inflation, is likely to be top of mind for voters as the November election approaches.