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The military and Federal Aviation Administration will conduct a high-energy laser test over the weekend, the Pentagon announced Friday, confirming DefenseScoop’s reporting earlier this week.
The FAA and Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Defense Department’s counter-drone hub, will conduct the test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico between March 7-8. The test is intended to advance “the safe use of counter-unmanned aerial systems in the United States” and boost interagency coordination, according to the Pentagon.

“They wouldn’t have been able to avoid it

An Army doctrine writer, Lt. Col. Scott McMahan spends most of his days turning wonky military concepts and research data into the manuals that soldiers use to do their jobs. Whether the topic is arctic combat, contested airspace, or deployment guidance, his goal is to make the Army’s basic instruction manuals for each simple enough that a high schooler could easily understand it.
He can now do that much quicker, he says, under an Army push to use artificial intelligence to create doctrines.

On March 11, 1944, anti-aircraft fire struck a B-24D Liberator bomber, causing to crash off Papua New Guinea.
Eleven airmen, including 2nd Lt. Thomas Kelly Jr., were on board the Heaven Can Wait. After an extensive search couldn’t locate their remains, the American Graves Registration Service deemed them unrecoverable in 1950.
Related: This is how the ‘missing man formation’ honors fallen pilots
It is likely they would have remained so, if not for the dogged persistence of Kelly’s family.

When the USS Wahoo sailed into Pearl Harbor on February 7, 1943, she had an odd ornament on her periscope: a common broom. But that broom was one of the most impressive symbols a crew could aspire to earn, because it symbolized the boat had destroyed an entire enemy convoy, sweeping it from the seas.

As Russia and China continue to invest heavily

Loitering munitions and first-person-view drones are emerging as top causes of death and bodily harm in modern military conflicts, senators warned Thursday.
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the small drone industrial base, multiple lawmakers urged senior defense officials to explore ways to help the U.S. military adapt to drone-specific injury patterns — particularly as the Pentagon hustles to expand its arsenal of uncrewed aircraft and watercraft.
“Small unmanned aerial systems, or sUAS, have become a defining feature of warfare.

Marines will have to tread water for longer and learn more swimming strokes under new, tougher rules for the service’s water survival program.
All Marines must already pass a basic water survival test to graduate from basic training, which covers a series of floatation and swimming skills designed for water emergencies. Many Marines must also requalify each year, often with tougher tests. The new rules further expand those requirements.

A British F-35B Lightning II has shot down a ho

The Pentagon has tapped Gavin Kliger, a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee, to lead the DOD’s growing adoption of artificial intelligence capabilities as its new chief data officer.
“We are in a global competition for military AI dominance, and America must build on its leadership to extend our advantage over adversaries,” Kliger said Friday in an announcement posted by the Pentagon’s research and engineering directorate, which is led by Emil Michael.

Watch HMS Dragon take one step closer to deploy

Rheinmetall has signed a contract in Zagreb, Croatia to acquire a 51% stake in Croatian uncrewed ground systems company DOK-ING.

Germany is set to acquire 47 Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) systems from Northrop Grumman as part of a US Army production award.

If you’re heading to West Point as a cadet, congratulations!
You’re about to embark on the most rewarding and rigorous experience of your life so far. The U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, is one of America’s most prestigious military institutions of higher learning. For generations, West Point has been associated with developing cadets into capable soldiers. These days, the mission remains the same.

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Somewhere near the President of the United States right now, a military aide is carrying a black leather briefcase that could end civilization. He’s not a cabinet member. He’s not a general. He’s a mid-grade officer selected for reliability, discretion, and the ability to keep up with the most powerful person on the planet. He’s with the Leader of the Free World at all times, in any country, under any circumstance.

CDR Salamander
…the chart don’t lie…

Breaking Defense
During the Vietnam era, the USS Midway set the record for longest at-sea deployment at 332 days.

Howard Altman, The WarZone
Cloned from the Iranian Shahed-136, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper praised the drones and their performance so far.

Riley Ceder, Defense N.
Military Times spoke with several national security specialists, defense analysts and foreign policy pundits who warned that the U.S.

Government Accountability Office
This testimony is based on many reports from our broad work on readiness across the military services, such as …

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The US military is planning to increase bombers “pulses” over Iran and deploy additional fighter squadrons to the region.

The Belgian Armed Forces have landed and conducted an armed takeover of an oil tanker, the Ethera, in international waters in the North Sea, during a coordinated operation supported by France, after the vessel was reported to have been exporting Russian oil. The tanker, which was sailing under the flag of Guinea, was forced to the port of Zeebrugge, and is expected to be sold and the funds appropriated by European states involved in the operation.

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The Trump administration should abandon any plans to arm Iranian Kurdish forces before the first fighter crosses the Iraqi-Iranian border. Not refine it. Not sequence it more carefully. Drop it entirely. The operation will not topple the Iranian regime, will inflame the Persian nationalism that is the Islamic Republic’s most reliable reserve fuel, and — most damagingly — will hand Tehran a coalition-fracturing tool it did not have to build. There is no version of this gambit that serves American strategic interests.

Most accounts of the Manhattan Project tell a familiar story: American scientists relentlessly racing to design and build the fission bombs that would ultimately fall on Japan. A neglected chapter of the saga was the obsessive advocacy of a handful of physicists who favored a far more potent weapon design. The “Super” of their imagination would derive its explosive energy not simply from fission, or the splitting of atomic nuclei, but also from the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen.

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German officials speaking to the Wall Street Journal have warned that the country has been left poorly protected against potential air or missile attacks due to the transfer of military systems, and particularly MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems, to Ukraine. The issue has been exacerbated by the more recent deployment of remaining Patriot systems to protect Poland on NATO’s eastern flank from late 2025.

The U.S. Air Force on March 4 scrambled two F-35A and two F-22 fifth generation fighter aircraft to interceptor two Russian Tu-142 anti-submarine warfare aircraft in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defence identification zones, with the Russian aircraft being closely shadowed, and remaining in international airspace. The fighters were supported by four KC-135 tankers, and one E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS), while Canada deployed two F-18 fighters and a CC-150 tanker.

Reports from multiple Western sources confirmed on March 5 that the United States Army has expended over 800 anti-ballistic missiles from MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems during just five days of hostilities with Iran, after the U.S and Israel both launched a large scale attack against the country on February 28.

A NATO E-3A Sentry airborne warning and control systems (AWACS) have conducted their first ever operational mission over Finnish airspace, positioning them in close proximity to the Russian Arctic and well within range to monitor deep into Russian territory.

Members of the Pentagon’s counter-drone task force were in Kyiv last week to understand how Ukraine’s military was protecting infrastructure and troops against Russian unmanned aerial systems — just before the start of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran.
The revelation — which was delivered by Joint Interagency Task Force 401 director Brig. Gen. Matt Ross at an industry event in Virginia on Thursday — came just hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he received a request from the U.S.

It’s been what, a couple thousand years or so since the Persians had a military invention of their own? They were overdue.

It is D+3, and there is one part of Operation Epic Fury that keeps popping up to top-of-mind for me, the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS).
First of all, like I said Sunday, BZ to the staff weenie(s) who came up with that acronym for the best blatant copy-job by the U.S. military since the Springfield 1903 looked at Mauser and said, “Nice gun you have there.

The U.S. military targeted infrastructure and assets that enable Iran to move data and conduct warfare operations in space, Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday.
Speaking alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a press briefing at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, Cooper said Iran’s combat power is diminishing as Operation Epic Fury enters its sixth day.
“In just the last 72 hours, America’s bomber force has struck nearly 200 targets deep inside of Iran, including around Tehran. And in just the last hour, U.S.

The Army’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) was used during Operation Epic Fury to strike Iranian targets, marking the long-range weapon’s first operational deployment since it was fielded in 2023.
U.S. Central Command confirmed the weapon’s use Wednesday in a post on X, which included a video showing PrSM being launched from an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). While the command has not provided details as to where the munition is located, the post noted that PrSM is “providing an unrivaled deep strike capability” to U.S. forces in the Middle East.

James “Aaron” Bishop has been tapped to serve as the Pentagon’s chief information security officer and deputy CIO for cybersecurity, the department announced on social media Thursday.
He assumed the role of CISO in an acting capacity on Feb. 27, according to a LinkedIn post from the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
In his new position, he’ll work under DOD CIO Kirsten Davies and be responsible for providing policy, technical, program and oversight support to the CIO on all cybersecurity matters.

Whew. No pressure to write something that will make Mighty MilSpouse readers want to read what I have to say. So, here we go… let’s start with the biggest question:
“What do military spouses want to read?”
Well… that’s simple. We want to read something that makes us feel seen; that we, too, contribute to the overarching mission of all branches of service, and are considered essential to mission readiness, as supported families allow service members to focus on their duties.
Nuff said.

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranSince the United States and Israel launched joint military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, their targeting has worked through a lengthy list of senior Iranian officials (including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei), missile facilities, naval assets, and sites associated with regime security forces.

A Marine who single-handedly destroyed a major bridge in Vietnam, swinging hand-over-hand across its steel girders to plant explosive charges even as an enemy tank fired at him, now appears set to receive the Medal of Honor. 
Marine Capt. John Ripley’s three-hour, one-man assault on the Dong Ha Bridge in April 1972 has long been a hallowed story in the Marine Corps. Fellow Marines, friends, and advocates have pushed for decades to see the Navy Cross he was awarded for the battle upgraded to a Medal of Honor.

The Defense Department is kicking off plans this month to deliver batches of small drones to roughly 17 military units, and officials will soon begin coordinating their deployments in real-world training exercises.
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, senior defense officials shared new details about those and other pursuits to rapidly enhance the U.S. drone industry and associated weapons arsenal, and counteract China’s dominance in the global market.

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Imagine a priesthood where they wear uniforms like the Navy’s, are disciplined like Marines, do as much real work to advance a mission as any nonner in the Air Force, are worked like Army privates with none of the pay and benefits, and get as much respect from the rest of the branches as the Coast Guard.
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If that sounds appealing, you’re ready for Scientology’s Sea Organization, a paramilitary “fraternal organization” comprised of the most devoted Scientology has to offer.

“I’m very proud of the support they give”

The Royal Navy is deploying a destroyer to the