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New ways to pair the unique capabilities of different ships could help better address commanders’ needs and do so faster.

By the late 1950s, the Space Race was dominating the Cold War, the United States military was rapidly testing advanced fighter jets and looking at how it could build out its rocket arsenal both for offensive use and to send Americans into space. And then they hit a snag.
The U.S. military had so rapidly built out its new aircraft that it had a new problem. Jets, like the X-15, could hit the upper atmosphere and break the sound barrier. However high altitude and high speeds meant that bailing out of these aircraft was riskier than ever.

Since hitting newsprint in 1950, Snoopy has become one of the most popular comic characters of all time.
Without speaking a word, America’s most recognizable beagle taught the public about physics, somehow sleeping and living on top of an A-frame doghouse. Snoopy also taught us about life as a flying ace from World War I. After his training as a pilot, however, Snoopy lived beyond the comic strip to inform the public about aerospace, including multiple stints with NASA.

Following repeated statements by U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States is considering a wide range of options to annex Greenland, and revelations by senior officials that military options are being considered by the Trump administration, questions have been raised regarding the ability of the Danish Armed Forces to retain control over the territory.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has deployed one of its eight Type 055 class heavy destroyers, the Zunyi, for free-form confrontational exercises targeting a simulated enemy in the South China Sea, highlighting many of the ship’s capabilities for such operations. During the exercise the destroyer was tasked with reconnaissance and early warning missions for a naval task force, and managed to successfully acquire its target and gather a large amount of data in real time.

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As sea temperatures and geopolitical tensions simultaneously heat up, Greenland’s strategic importance increases. Against this backdrop, the specter of American territorial expansion has emerged as a new factor that is complicating Arctic security.The evolving security environment in the Arctic necessitates deeper American involvement in the region. Specifically, the United States needs to enhance its military presence in Greenland by improving regional air and missile defenses.

Thanks to AI, cheating in professional military education is becoming pervasive. Drawing on our perspectives as a uniformed instructor and as a recent course graduate, we’re seeing officers increasingly outsource their thinking and assignments to sophisticated AI tools despite attempted restrictions. The rising, unauthorized use of AI is not merely an integrity issue. It undermines the very mission of professional military education and erodes the military’s professional ethos.However, AI cheating is not the problem.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces suspended procurements of German HX-2 strike drones in late 2025, after their performances were found to be well below required standards. According an internal presentation prepared by the German Defence Ministry in November, aircraft had trouble even taking off, with only a quarter of them being able to launch. Even if able to get airborne, the aircraft were found to be highly vulnerable to Russian electronic warfare, leading their operators to lose connection.

The Ukrainian Air Force has reported that the Russian Amed Forces launched a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile during an overnight strike on the country on January 20. Where prior launches of the missile were conducted from ships, however, this latest firing was reported to have been carried out from a ground-based launcher on the disputed Crimean Peninsula.

The Republic of Korea Army has begun its first operational deployment of the new Hyunmoo-5 tactical ballistic missile, which integrates the largest tactical warhead ever to be carried by a ballistic missile at an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 kilograms. Developed as part of the Korean Massive Punishment and Retaliation strategy, the missile appears to have been designed to be able to target North Korean underground facilities, and emphasises high impact velocity, penetration, and precision guidance to destroy deeply buried command centres and military bases.

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There was a lot to get excited about at last week’s Surface Navy Association confab, and I’ll get to that in a minute, but it would be wise to temper one’s expectations.
20 years seems like a long time, but in many ways it is not. As we look forward to what our fleet will look like at mid-century, we should look back to what we were all promised in January of 2005 that was going to transform into the Navy of the 21st century.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said today that multiple aircraft are on their way to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. In an unusual move, NORAD’s announcement repeatedly said that the mission, which “will support various long-planned NORAD activities,” is a routine operation.
“This activity has been coordinated with the Kingdom of Denmark, and all supporting forces operate with the requisite diplomatic clearances,” the statement continued. “The Government of Greenland is also informed of planned activities.

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The US Army’s PEO Soldier has chosen the HERO-90 loitering munition for its Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance initiative.

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As U.S. history educators, much of our professional training emphasizes structure, pacing guides, state standards, and carefully sequenced curriculum maps. We move deliberately through eras, anchor lessons in textbooks, and rely heavily on primary source documents to help students understand the past. This approach provides students with a shared historical framework and ensures exposure to key events, ideas, and debates that have shaped the United States.

The next act in the Greenland saga will see Nato’s highest military committee convene amid profound infighting.

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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll criticized a counter-drone system that soldiers have been using for years, including as recently as last month.

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Two MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters completed their first operational mission Jan.

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Largely, expansion plans within the surface fleet come in the shape of future large surface combatants, mainly aboard the new

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Making a plan to leave the military and step into the civilian workforce is probably one of the most stressful times for any military member. Their steady paycheck is ending, bills are still due, and finding a job suddenly becomes their full-time job.
So when a company finally calls, interviews them, and puts a salary offer on the table, it can feel like the only rational move is to grab it, hang on, and thank whatever god they believe in that the job search is finally over.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has carried out a mission autonomy test flight with its MQ-20 Avenger drone.

Ukraine’s 46th Airmobile Podilsk Brigade is using drones equipped with a fishing rod and weighted cord to intercept Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). 
Footage posted by the brigade on Sunday showed the Ukrainian drone approaching the target from above, causing the Russian drone’s propellers to become entangled in or damaged by the cord. The video captured the system successfully intercepting one fixed-wing drone and one quadcopter. writes SOFX.
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In July, the team at EarthTraq, a dual-use space company, received an email suggesting we “go through the Space Force Front Door process.” It seemed simple. We offer clear applications for pressing U.S. national security needs. The front door appeared to be the place to learn about capability gaps and seek funding to address them. Between July and December 2025, we navigated three such “front doors” at the U.S. Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The Battle of Marengo was the culmination of Napoleon’s campaign in Italy in May–June 1800. It completely unraveled the string of Second Coalition victories across the peninsula that began the year before. The battle is notable for Napoleon’s initial underestimation of his enemy. Only timely reinforcements and Austrian hubris won him the day. Napoleon recounted the words of Gen. Louis Desaix at Marengo, that “the battle is completely lost; but it is only two o’clock and we still have time to win another today.

Even after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured, U.S. nationals may still be prosecuted under international law for the country’s previous attacks against suspected drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, including those that happened as recently as Dec. 31, 2025.

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The Royal Danish Air Force has become the third service in the world to field a fighter fleet fully comprised of fifth generation fighter aircraft, following the Royal Norwegian Air Force in 2022, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force in 2024. All three Northern European countries were partners in the F-35 program, and procured the F-35A to replace their small fleets of Cold War era F-16 fourth generation fighters. The retirement of the last Danish F-16s occurred on January 18, ending more than four decades of service.

The Israeli Air Force received three new F-35I fighters from the United States on January 18 , bringing the total fleet up to 48 of the aircraft. The aircraft landed at Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, where all F-35s are currently based under the 116th and 140th squadrons. The Air Force received its first F-35s in December 2016, declaring them operational the following year, and expanded its fleet with the formation of the 116th Squadron in January 2021.

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U.S. forces have withdrawn from Iraq’s Ain al-Asad Airbase, which housed U.S.-led forces in Western Iraq, and the Iraqi army has assumed full control, the Iraqi defence ministry said on Saturday.
In 2024, Washington and Baghdad reached an understanding, opens new tab on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq and a move towards a bilateral security relationship.
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Footage from the Ukrainian theatre has confirmed that the Russian Armed Forces have begun using a new type of jet-powered single use drone, which was seen striking and destroying a rocket artillery launcher from a U.S.-supplied HIMARS system.The footage published by the unit operating a supporting reconnaissance drone and captured the moment the target was detected and coordinates were passed to the jet powered kamikaze drone, which appeared as a a fast arrow-shaped airframe that approached at high speed.

Secretary of State at the Polish Defence Ministry Pawel Zalewski has confirmed that up to nine MiG-29 fighters being retired from the Polish Air Force will be transferred as aid to the Ukrainain Air Force. He noted that the process has received full political approval, with the Polish and Ukrainian defence authorities currently coordinating over issues including theaircraft’s condition, logistics, and maintenance planning.

National Guard troops will continue to be in Washington, D.C. through the end of the year, after the Trump administration extended their deployment. 
CNN first reported the news, citing government officials, with the Washington Post and ABC News confirming. It’s the second major extension of deployment orders for troops in the capital; in October the orders were extended the first time and expected to end in February. Currently more than 2,600 National Guard troops, from the District of Columbia and nearly a dozen states, are active in the capital after being called up in August.

The last American troops at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad Air Base have left after a months-long drawdown, Iraq’s defense ministry announced on Saturday. 
In a statement, the ministry said that Iraq’s army fully took control of the major base in the country’s western Anbar Province. Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah was on hand for the final withdrawal. The withdrawal marks the final part of a drawdown that got extended this past fall due to concerns of a “security vacuum” in Syria.

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CDM/AFP recently reported on President Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell violent protests in Minnesota over ICE raids. We have also reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent is working on ‘following the money’ behind the demonstrations.
Today, word comes the Pentagon has put troops on alert for possible deployment in that scenario.
Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials, reported ABC News.

For more than three quarters of a century, reports of strange objects in the sky have unsettled pilots, challenged scientists, and tested the credibility of governments.
What began in the late 1940s as scattered sightings of so-called flying saucers has evolved into a modern national security issue discussed openly in Congress under the term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP. Two men, separated by generations but united by military service and a refusal to accept official dismissals, played defining roles in that transformation. Maj. Donald E.

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The Japanese government Board of Audit has revealed that military equipment worth approximately 1.1 trillion yen ($6.9 billion) purchased from the United States under the Foreign Military Sales program more than five years ago has yet to be delivered delivered to the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Among contracts signed since Fiscal Year 2018, 118 procurement cases remained incomplete far beyond their original delivery schedules, primarily due to issues with manufacturers in the United States.

The United States Army has confirmed that it failed to meet its end-of-2025 deployment target for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program, otherwise known as theDark Eagle, despite the unit assigned to operate the system already being trained and ready. This follows prior delays in 2023 and 2024, making this the third major recent deadline to have been missedby the program. The missile that has been under development since 2018, and has already received more than $12 billion in funding. It is intended to provide the U.S.