The Russian Airspace Forces on January 22 deployed Tu-22M3 strategic bombers for a patrol over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, a leading potential hotspot for conflict with NATO. Reporting on the operations, the Russian Defence Ministry observed: “Tu-22M3 long-range bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces have performed a scheduled flight over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. They were escorted by Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

The U.S. Coast Guard is refining and integrating a new generative AI-enabled platform to help personnel quickly retrieve reliable answers from referenceable internal sources via a secure data environment that is configured to support their specific operations. 
This prototype system — named Ask Hamilton, in honor of the so-called “father of the Coast Guard” Alexander Hamilton — is being designed to streamline information access and improve user efficiency across typically tedious tasks like marine inspections.
“We have 11 missions. There’s a lot of communities out there.

Less than two years after its operational debut abroad, the Marine Corps is looking to replace corroding struts on its Amphibious Combat Vehicle fleet.
With a gross weight of 35 tons, the eight-wheeled ACV is capable of carrying up to 16 Marines (including its three-person crew) from ship to shore and has emerged as a critical tool in the service’s amphibious repertoire since the first batch of vehicles arrived to units in 2020.

In late December, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran — eventually spreading around the country and across many sectors of society. Due to an internet blackout imposed on Jan. 8, information is limited, but reports suggest that thousands of Iranian protesters were killed in the government’s crackdown. The protests came at a time when the Iranian regime looked particularly vulnerable due to a struggling economy, an aging leadership, and a weakened regional position.

After years of testing mishaps and schedule delays, the Army says it has begun the fielding process for its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system.
Fielding activities for the missile, also known as Dark Eagle, began in December and are expected to wrap up in the next few months, an Army spokesperson told DefenseScoop on Tuesday. Once delivery of the entire battery is complete, Dark Eagle will be the United States’ first-ever operational hypersonic weapon system. Although some of the ballistic missiles — such as ICBMs — that are already in the U.

F-15 crews with the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron played a major role in shooting down Iranian drones launched against Israel nearly two years ago in what the Air Force has described as “the largest air-to-air enemy engagement in over 50 years.”
Now, F-15s from the squadron are back in the Middle East as President Donald Trump reportedly weighs military options for possible strikes against Iran for cracking down on anti-regime protests.
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The Defense Department is searching for new acoustic detection capabilities to help soldiers defend themselves against small unmanned aerial systems.
The Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center under the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command is conducting market research to see what tools are available.
A request for information issued Jan. 14 is intended to inform future requirements and prototyping efforts.

In 2024, Brian Petit wrote, “Send in the A Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine,” where he argued for sending the Green Berets into Ukraine for training and assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces. We asked Brian to revisit his argument after talks of a peace deal have yet to produce fruitful change.Image: Sgt. Patrik Orcutt via DVIDSIn your 2024 article, “Send in the A Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine,” you argue that sending the Green Berets to Ukraine to help train, advise, and assist Ukrainian troops “requires little imagination, no adaptation, and few modifications.

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In February 1968, American forces in Vietnam were still reeling from the sudden onslaught of the Tet Offensive. The January surprise attack by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong saw strategic but widespread strikes on military and civilian command and control centers throughout the country. 
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Oshkosh Defense has received a contract from the US Army to supply 97 Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles A2 Low-Velocity Airdrop trucks.

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The UK’s future main battle tank, Challenger 3, conducted its first crewed live fire test as part of a carefully phased programme.

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No war in recent memory can compare to the meat grinder of World War I.
Europe still bears the scars of the war, even more than a century since the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. The gruesome and terrifying type of warfare typical of the Great War had a lasting impact on those who witnessed and experienced it. It also created such carnage on the land where it was fought that some of those areas are still uninhabitable to this day.
The uninhabitable battlefields are known as the Zone Rouge (French for “Red Zone”).

A military recruiter sent an email to Minnesota high school students pushing enlistment as a path to accessing an immigration program that could help prevent their parents from being deported.
CNN first reported that the recruiter had emailed about 200 students about a Department of Homeland Security Program known as “Parole in Place,” which allows undocumented members of military families to temporarily remain in the United States in one-year increments, though eligibility restrictions apply to citizens of certain countries.

As of January 2026, the AI ascension is hitting new highs; it’s also hitting a literal and metaphorical wall. Large Language Models (LLMs) are undoubtedly getting “smarter,” but the nation’s power grid is becoming increasingly vulnerable in order to drive this innovation.
Microsoft is restarting Three Mile Island. What could go wrong? Amazon is buying everything that isn’t bolted down, and maybe even the bolted-down stuff by now, too. But those are long-term plays, and the tech giants are itchy addicts looking for a quick energy fix.

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Lawmakers also want the Navy to submit a report that includes an updated acquisition strategy and program schedule for F/A-XX.

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XM30 vehicles unleash Apache-like 50mm cannon power, doubling range and featuring advanced targeting to dominate battlefield threats

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The chief of staff of the Army is celebrating progress on a new generation of Abrams tank that he said is lighter, more advanced and on track to be delivered…

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Many strategists, myself included, believe that unmanned surface vessels could be part of an approach to help the U.S. Navy maintain an edge over its competitors. Unfortunately, there is little agreement on exactly what they should do.Part of the problem is that people mean different things when they talk about unmanned surface vessels.

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has revived a familiar anxiety across Europe and Taiwan: How reliable is the United States when its partners’ core interests are at stake? Trump’s governing style is marked by transactional diplomacy, hostility toward multilateral institutions, tariff-driven economic statecraft, and a willingness to publicly berate allies. Taken individually, none of these features is unprecedented. Together, they create a narrative environment that China is learning how to exploit.

Prediction markets have proven remarkably effective at aggregating dispersed information across many domains. From technology product launches to election forecasting, they often outperform expert predictions. But when applied to military operations, these same mechanisms create categorically different risks. Now Ukrainian volunteers, Russian military bloggers, and American security clearance holders alike can convert insider knowledge of military operations into profit through pseudonymous crypto wallets.At 2 a.m. local time on Jan. 3, 2026, explosions echoed across Caracas.

The U.S. Navy Nimitz class supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its Carrier Strike Group on January 20 completed a transit through the Malacca Strait, after prematurely concluding operations in the 7th Fleet area of operations, particularly in the South China Sea, to redirect towards the 5th Fleet area in the Middle East. The redirection of the carrier group represents part of a much broader U.S.

US-based Gentex has introduced its re-designed Ops-Core FAST XP Helmet System, a ballistic helmet developed for law enforcement personnel.

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The U.S. Air Force has redeployeda large number of F-15E Strike Eagle fighters supported by KC-135 aerial refuelling tankers from RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, where they are permanently forward deployed, to bases in the Middle East, according to online flight tracking data. This represents part of a broader military buildup that appears to remain underway to target the country. A U.S.

The Indian Armed Forces have begun to receive Belarusian Berkut-BM single use attack drones, after these kinds of aircraft played a central role in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War and demonstrated their considerable value. The Berkut-BM is a jet-powered aircraft developed by the firm Indela, and reportedly uses a Chinese-made micro turbojet engine produced by Swiwin.

In Dnepropetrovsk, a woman lies unconscious by the minibus of bounty hunters, and the rest of the people, apparently, received a jet from a pepper spray in their face. A military-aged man was snatched off the street.
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Sailors aboard the USS Indiana took a group photo celebrating an improbable and dramatic championship win Monday night by their namesake state’s top college football team, the Indiana University Hoosiers. The photo was posted to a Facebook page run by the ship’s commissioning committee, a civilian nonprofit that raises funds to support the Indiana’s crew.
The Hoosiers football team beat the University of Miami Hurricanes, 27-21, in the national championship game.

President Donald Trump nominated a Marine general who helped usher the Corps through two clean financial audits — the first and only time any military branch has done so — to head the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Lt. Gen. James Adams III was nominated as director of the DIA last week, according to a notification to Congress which did not list the position he would be assigned to. The Pentagon released Adams’ nomination information on Tuesday amid a slew of general officer assignments.

House and Senate appropriators are looking to give an additional $897 million in funding towards the Navy’s sixth-generation fighter jet for fiscal 2026 in an attempt to bring the program out of a stalemate.
The conferenced defense appropriations act for FY26 was published Tuesday and includes a total of $972 million in research-and-development funds for the Navy F/A-XX program, according to the bill’s explanatory statement released by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The Archbishop who oversees all U.S. Catholic chaplains in the military told an interviewer that he “could not see any circumstances” in which military action against Greenland could be morally justified, and that it could be “morally acceptable to disobey” orders to attack the nation.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio told a British interviewer that U.S. troops who might refuse orders to attack Greenland would be “in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something that’s morally questionable.”
Broglio is the Archbishop of the Archdiocese for the U.S.

With the onset of World War II, the United States was experiencing many changes in the way it communicated. That meant new ways to communicate internally, and faster ways to get messages among different military branches and ranks. From getting creative and flashing planes to bringing in sensitive materials and utilizing faster, new technology, like teletypewriters, WWII saw new communication take hold. 
Related: How World War II changed modern medicine
Check out how soldiers relayed messages to their fellow soldiers, as well as back home, during the conflict.

Minnesota National Guardsmen will wear bright reflective vests so they won’t be confused with law enforcement agencies that wear military-style camouflage.
“Members of the Minnesota National Guard are serving in support of local law enforcement agencies and are not licensed peace officers,” said Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya, a spokeswoman for the state’s National Guard. “These vests are being used to distinguish our members from those of other agencies, due to similar uniforms being worn.”
Minneapolis has seen daily protests against law enforcement since an agent with U.S.

Danish troops have arrived in Greenland to take

Ukraine is building a drone shield designed, not to respond post factum, but to destroy UAS threats while they are still en route.

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EuroTrophy has signed a contract valued at €330m with KNDS Deutschland to provide Trophy Active Protection Systems for the Leopard 2A8 tanks.

Many of us have been there: starting a new job at one duty station, only to hand in our two-week notice a year later because of last-minute orders. Others have taken on full-time work, only to realize that a lack of child care made it impossible to keep going. In that scenario, we were forced to take a pay cut or step away entirely to stay home with our little ones. So many military spouses put careers on hold to support our service members and the mission.

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The Army has once again missed its own deadline for fielding the first U.S.

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On December 22, 2025, the Trump Administration announced a proposed program to build a new class of guided missile battleships…

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Multi-static Active Coherent (MAC) sonobuoys deployed from drones for the first time, boosting anti-submarine coverage.