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The world has seen some heinous wars in its time, including those that took out entire kingdoms and cultures.
Modern citizens could do little to understand some wars, including those that were fought by some of the fiercest armies in history.
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For over a century, there was one jewel in the special relationship between the United States of America and her mother country, Great Britain. That jewel was the Royal Navy.

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An awkwardly worded question and a poorly phrased answer by a government official have launched speculation and debate about the possibility of a draft. Most of it is wrong or at least misguided, but reflects a growing uncertainty over what comes next in the ongoing fight with Iran.
The latest flurry of concern about a draft came after a Sunday interview between White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.

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A Pentagon task force published back-to-back guidelines about anti-drone technology this week, illustrating the military’s attempt at quickly delivering such capabilities — following standardized testing — while heeding federal laws prohibiting domestic surveillance.
Joint Interagency Task Force 401, an Army-led entity established last year and tasked with boosting the military’s counter-unmanned aerial systems repertoire, has headed the Pentagon’s expansion of installation authorities to knock down drones in the U.S.

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Since the United States and Israel began intensive airstrikes against Iran on Feb. 28, Iran has retaliated with missile and drone strikes against multiple Arab countries. Although Iran says it is striking U.S. military targets based in the Arab states, it has also hit civilian infrastructure and buildings. Iran has hit targets in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Jordan. The war marks a hard stop to a recent warming in relations between Iran and some Gulf Arab states.

The Danish Army has selected BAE Systems OneArc (OneArc) to provide the foundation for its new enterprise virtual training environment.

With the war against Iran in its second week, the U.S. military’s focus now includes destroying factories that build one-way attack drones and preventing the Iranian military from using sea mines, said Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“U.S [Central Command] continues today to hunt and strike mine-laying vessels in mine storage facilities,” Caine said during a Tuesday Pentagon news conference. “This work will continue.”
Caine did not specify exactly how many vessels, storage facilities, or sea mines have been destroyed so far.

Iran’s strategy offers little beyond its increasing drone tactics, which make the IRGC’s success dependent on sustaining Shahed production.

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The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the NSA, ending nearly a year of leadership uncertainty at the agencies and putting a new chief at the helm amid an ongoing war with Iran.
Rudd, who previously served as deputy commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and worked in the special operations community, was nominated in December by President Donald Trump for the dual-hat role of Cybercom and NSA boss, despite having a limited cyber background.
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Babcock has secured a contract to provide in-service support for the British Army’s Field Electrical Power Supplies (FEPS) power generators.

The Defense Department on Tuesday unveiled a new “Agent Designer” tool that will run on its GenAI.mil platform.
The tool is being integrated with Google Gemini capabilities, according to the announcement.
In a message posted on social media, the Pentagon CTO’s office said that 3 million employees at the department — including those without coding experience — can use the technology to create their own “custom AI assistants to automate tasks and streamline complex workflows” for a variety of mission areas.

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to say how long U.S. military operations against Iran might last, a day after President Donald Trump indicated the conflict could be nearing its end.
During a Pentagon news conference on Tuesday, a reporter asked Hegseth to provide his assessment on how far the U.S. military is into its campaign against Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury.
Hegseth replied that Trump will determine what objectives need to be achieved and what the conflict’s end state will be.
“He gets to control the throttle,” Hegseth said.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Alan Johnson survived the Iranian ballistic missile strike on Al-Asad Air Base, Iraq, in 2020, that left dozens with traumatic brain injuries that went undiagnosed for days and, in some cases, even weeks. Recently, Johnson told Congress that the majority of traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, are “easily missed” in combat scenarios.
Johnson said he believes the military’s standard test for TBIs, which is essentially a checklist of symptoms that might be noticed in a doctor’s office or clinic, is not practical in austere environments.

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In April 2022, when the U.S. National Guard began pulling M113 armored personnel carriers out of storage to ship to Ukraine, the reaction was fairly consistent. Veterans, active service, and commentators alike called it “clearing out the cupboards.”
Ukrainian soldiers who had trained on Bradleys in Germany returned home to find boxy, vintage aluminum carriers waiting for them instead. Disappointment was the immediate reaction.
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Years later, the M113 is one of the more valued vehicles in Ukraine’s arsenal.

The war with Iran has prompted many questions about what comes next.

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In late 2017, while traveling to Moscow on official duty, I experienced a sudden, debilitating health incident. After a long and arduous battle with the CIA to obtain treatment, military doctors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington ultimately diagnosed and treated me for a line-of-duty traumatic brain injury. I was never the same after the incident and years of painful recovery continue to this day.I served for 26 years in the U.S.

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United States officials speaking to the Washington Post on March 10 confirmed that the U.S. Army has begun moving parts of its THAAD anti-missile system from South Korea to the Middle East, a week after South Korean sources first reported that a withdrawal of components of THAAD systems, and possibly full systems, was under consideration. This follows confirmation from South Korean government sources on March 9 that U.S. Army MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems have also been preparedfor redeployment from South Korea to the Middle East, and that heavy U.S.

Multiple Indian sources have reported that the Indian Air Force is planning to make a very large scale procurement of several hundred R-37M long range air-to-air missiles, which will more than triple the engagement ranges of the Su-30MKI fighters that form the backbone of its combat aviation fleet.

Footage take at Almamzar Beach in Dubai has show a United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force F-16E/F fighter in hot pursuit of an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Shahed 136 single use attack drone. The F-16 carried two AIM-120 air-to-air missiles, but appeared to be closing in to attempt to achieve a gun kill. The outcome of the engagement is unknown. Iran has launched large scale missile and drone attacks targeting bases across the Persian Gulf region hosting U.S.

The Ukrainian Air Force on March 9 reported the death of one of the country’s most experienced airmen, Colonel Alexander Dovgach, the commander of the 39th Fighter Aviation Brigade, during a combat sortie. “In the eastern direction, in the conditions of a significant advantage of the air enemy and powerful counteraction of hostile air defence systems, Colonel Alexander Dovgach was killed,” the Air Force announced. Dovgach carried out combat missions in the Kiev, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions, and also carried out strikes on Snake Island in the spring of 2022.

As the Islamic Republic weathers U.S. and Israeli missile strikes on its infrastructure and the killing of key political figures, China remains on the sidelines, offering words and technical expertise rather than arms to its closest partner in the Middle East.

To be sure, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has strongly condemned the U.S.-Israeli intervention in Iran, calling it “unacceptable” for Washington to launch attacks amid ongoing negotiations with Tehran, “still less to blatantly attack and kill a leader of a sovereign country and instigate government change.

In mid-February, WESH TV news (NBC channel 2) reported that stolen military explosive devices were found in a home at The Villages, Florida, northwest of Orlando.
The county’s bomb squad unit responded to the scene. According to WESH, it was confirmed that the explosives were stolen from the military.
News reporter Luana Muñoz said that neighbors didn’t want to go on camera out of fear of retribution.
Neighbors needed to evacuate for three hours as a safety precaution.
Authorities confirmed that all explosives were removed.

For several years, veterans groups have been pushing for legislation that would allow those wounded in combat to receive both disability benefits and retirement pay. However, a bill intended to do just that — the Major Richard Star Act — recently stalled in the Senate.
Named for an Army reserve major who died of lung cancer linked to burn pit exposure, the legislation took aim at a federal rule against “double-dipping” — one that veterans’ advocates argue has wrongly been applied to two different federal benefits.

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Facing a $150 billion infrastructure backlog and congressional appropriation caps, the Army is looking to make private industry an interesting offer: co-invest in its priorities and get a return that isn’t solely reliant on the service itself.
Dubbed the “Strategic Capital Initiative,” the Army is asking industry to help come up with ideas for new public-private partnership structures, operating models and contracting processes that can quickly tackle some of its most pressing demands, according to service leaders and a request for information.

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Thirty-eight minutes.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War on August 27, 1896, was fought in less time than it takes to watch the much-discussed combat scene from “Lone Survivor.” It was the shortest war in world history, which spans, you know, a bunch of years, so that is saying something.
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