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The Navy’s head of surface warfare says DDG(X) is a “clean-sheet imperative” that will prioritize electricity production, endurance and advanced weapons.

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Lyndon B. Johnson will be the second ship in the U.S.

Switzerland have joined the Dutch-led PESCO Military Mobility project to standardise administrative processes

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Iran’s inability to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime and prevent its collapse, coupled with recent significant blows to Hizballah and Israeli strikes within Iranian borders, underscores Tehran’s unprecedented regional weakness.  With Russian support proving unreliable, the rapid Syrian downfall reminds Iranian leadership of the danger of their growing domestic estrangement. Now, Tehran faces a critical choice between dangerously advancing its military nuclear ambitions as the ultimate deterrent or seeking de-escalation at the risk of seeming vulnerable.

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In this special episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Rick Landgraf talks with Jane Vaynman and Tristan Volpe, co-authors of “Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations,” published in the journal International Organization. The study won IO’s 2023 Robert O. Keohane Award for best research article published by an untenured scholar. Image: U.S. Army Garrison – Fort Detrick
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Junior enlisted troops bring home more pay than most civilians with similar experience, according to a new report released by the Pentagon.
Specifically, the pay for troops with less than 10 years of experience is higher than the “90th percentile of earnings for civilians” with a high school diploma, according to the first volume of the 14th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation released Wednesday. The review, commissioned by the Department of Defense, studies the total compensation — pay plus cash allowances — that military members receive in comparison to civilian peers.

During his last days as President Joe Biden’s top national security adviser, Jake Sullivan is advising members of President-Elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration on the lessons his team learned in their pursuits to expand the contemporary defense industrial base and modernize the production and procurement of U.S. military weapons and other warfare assets.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith cautioned on Wednesday that ongoing efforts to relocate Marines from Okinawa to Guam will move those forces away from where they are most needed.
“Frankly, Guam puts us going the wrong way,” Smith told reporters at a Defense Writers Group Breakfast in Washington, D.C. “Guam puts us on the other side of the International Date Line, but it puts us a long way from the crisis theater, from the priority theater.”
About 19,000 Marines are currently stationed in Okinawa.

An Army doctor who sexually abused patients during fraudulent medical examinations was sentenced Wednesday to more than more than 13 years in prison.
An Army judge gave Army Maj. Michael Stockin the maximum amount of prison time — 13 years, 6 months — that a plea deal he made last week with military prosecutors allowed.

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ATF is an initialism for alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. The agency’s actual name is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. With its responsibilities in its name, many people may be surprised to learn that the BATFE, more commonly referred to as the ATF, is also the federal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over fire investigations. So, how did fires get added to the jurisdiction of the ATF?
Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, c. 1921 (Public Domain)
The ATF can trace its roots back to the days of Prohibition.

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In 2022, Kathleen J. McInnis, Benjamin Jensen, and Jaron Wharton wrote, “Why Dictators are Afraid of Girls: Rethinking Gender and National Security,” where they analyzed how gender can break or bolster authoritarian regimes. We asked Kathleen and Benjamin to revisit their article to see how the relationship between government and gender has evolved since then. Read more below: Image: Photo from Paval Hadzinski Catholic Belarus, CC BY-SA 4.

The Marines are gearing up to integrate more generative artificial intelligence tools into the force, but the service’s top officer doesn’t want to have to spend a lot of money to develop them.
The Corps, like the Defense Department writ large, is keen on tapping into emerging genAI capabilities for various military purposes.
Last month, Lt. Gen. Melvin “Jerry” Carter, the deputy commandant for information, issued new guidance on the technology, writing that these types of tools present “unique and exciting opportunities” for the Marines.

FORT MEADE, Md. — Following a new framework signed in September 2024, the Pentagon’s network defense command is looking to change how it fights to better protect Department of Defense networks from increasing adversary intrusions.
Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, signed the DOD Information Network (DODIN) command operation framework execution order last year, which oriented the battlespace and now aligns DODIN areas of operation to commanders and directors.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith has some bad news for any Marines who want to grow beards.
When asked on Wednesday if he could foresee any circumstances in the coming years under which Marines would be allowed to grow beards, Smith replied with a definitive “No.”
“Because we’re Marines and we’re different,” Smith told reporters at a Defense Writers Group event, which is based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
“The Marine Corps has a brand, and we’re making our recruiting mission,” Smith continued.

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The UK Ministry of Defence commits to continually monitoring Russian use of chemical weapons and other forms of CBRN threats.

Skyryse has entered the CRADA with the US Army to enhance pilot training efficiency and aircraft interoperability.

Babcock has been awarded its first contract with NATO to provide training support services at the JWC in Stavanger, Norway.

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Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, is facing a relentless smear campaign that ranges from the petty to the absurd.

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For the U.S. Navy to achieve a proposed plan to expand its fleet of battle force ships, the service would need to spend $40.

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The outgoing Secretary of the Navy has named CVN 82 and CVN 83 after former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush.

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As Senator Markwayne Mullin pointed out, Senators have shown up drunk, had affairs, and divorced their wives, they never were kicked out of Congress.
Pete Hegseth dominated and the Dems sounded like screeching Karens (not just Senator Kaine)

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For decades, the United States has relied on airpower and the qualitative superiority of its aircraft to gain an advantage over its adversaries. But that advantage is rapidly eroding. The Chinese military is fielding sophisticated air defense networks that include robust passive defenses, challenging sensors, and highly capable missiles and aircraft. In fact, by our calculations, the amount of concrete used by China to improve the resilience of its air base network could pave a four-lane highway from Washington, D.C. to Chicago.

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The Army is assessing a range of generative artificial intelligence tools and platforms to determine how the technology can streamline business operations and make them readily available to the service.
Known as Project Athena, the pilot aims to evaluate the use cases and cost models of commercially available genAI tech that can be used to support the service’s back-end office work. The effort is being led by the Army’s Chief Information Officer Leonel Garciga alongside the Office of Enterprise Management (OEM).

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The Ukraine-Russia conflict has been the most intense two-way drone war in human history, with unmanned aerial systems being employed by both sides on a large scale for one-way attacks and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
The Biden administration has committed more than $65 billion worth of security assistance to Kyiv since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly three years ago, including thousands of UAS platforms via presidential drawdown authority and USAI funds.

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As the Army gears up to begin awarding contracts for its Next Generation Command and Control initiative, it is asking industry for feedback to help guide its program of record.
A request for information, released Monday, seeks vendors’ input that aligns with NGC2 contracting priorities.
NGC2 is a top modernization priority for the Army.

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Democratic lawmakers raised questions on Tuesday about Pete Hegseth’s ability to lead the Defense Department based on his past experiences managing two veterans service organizations.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Hegseth, a former Army infantry officer, to be the next secretary of defense. Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing.
Hegseth previously served as executive director of Vets For Freedom from 2007 to 2010, and then CEO of Concerned Veterans for America from 2012 to 2015.

In 1994, Frank Butler was wheeled into an operating room for knee surgery on a torn meniscus — the result of running too hard with his sons at Fripp Island, South Carolina. A Navy SEAL and medical doctor, Butler watched the surgical team prep him for the procedure, feeling the sedatives set in. 
But even hazy from the medication, he noticed when they put a tourniquet on his leg.
“I was aware that both the military and the civilian sectors discouraged tourniquet use,” Butler told Task & Purpose. “But when I had my surgery done and they used the tourniquet on me, the light came on.

Two out of the three Humvees stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California, have been recovered, the Army Criminal Investigation Division confirmed to Task & Purpose on Tuesday.  
The Tustin Police Department confirmed that two soft-sided Humvees were recovered after they were stolen earlier this month. An up-armored Humvee is still at large — along with eight machine gun vehicle mounts, seven free-standing machine gun tripods, 18 bayonets, 40 pairs of binoculars, and medical supplies.

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Leading up to his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, Pete Hegseth — the network TV presenter who President-elect Donald Trump picked to serve as the next U.S. defense secretary — told lawmakers that he would move to modernize the Pentagon’s data and cyber infrastructure and enable AI adoption for a range of national security endeavors, if he’s approved for the high-stakes role. 
DefenseScoop reviewed Hegseth’s answers to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s advanced policy questions (APQs) that were submitted to Congress ahead of his testimony.

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a legend in the world of military airlift. It is only the fifth aircraft (after the English Electric Canberra, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker) to reach 50 years of continuous service with its original primary customer, the U.S. Air Force in the case of the C-130. Entering Air Force service in 1956, the Hercules continues to serve as the U.S. military’s primary tactical airlifter. The versatile platform has even been converted for use as an aerial firefighter, gunship, and meteorological aircraft.

The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade will deploy to the Middle East in early February to support ongoing operations against the Islamic State group. Approximately 2,000 air assault soldiers will ship overseas to take over “all aviation-related missions for the Joint Task Force” already there. The elements of the 101st will replace those from the 10th Mountain Combat Aviation Brigade.
According to Capt. Andrew Lightsey, an Army spokesperson, the nine-month deployment will be in support of units in the U.S.

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Ukraine be the first to deploy the RCH 155 self-propelled artillery system, receiving the first six platforms from Germany in 2025.