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A targeting screen fills with structures, heat signatures, and a rapidly closing window. Aircraft have only minutes of fuel left when an AI highlights a single building, and suddenly the decision space collapses to one bright box.This is the triage trap: a pattern in which AI-enabled workflows determine which options reach command judgment in the first place, before a commander weighs alternatives. What the model elevates becomes the decision — what it filters out disappears. This is not captured in mission command or command and control doctrine.

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in Sudan shut down within weeks. Half a million displaced people lost access to clean water. Famine conditions that had been held at bay collapsed into crisis. Within months, Russian grain ships arrived in African ports and Chinese agricultural delegations expanded across the continent. Decisions made in Washington marked the end of seven decades of American dominance in humanitarian food assistance and the rise of two powers with fundamentally different models.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly requested that U.S. President Donald Trump postpone plans for a military attack on Iran, according to a senior U.S. official who spoke to the New York Times. This follows the outbreak of widespread protests, riots and paramiltiary attacks within the Iran, reportedly resulting in the deaths of close to 200 security forces, which was seen to provide an optimal opportunity for the country’s adversaries to escalate.

L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber discuss the connections between the organized safe zones of Ukraine and Venezuela.

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Secretary of War Hegseth worked out with ROTC cadets in UCLA stadium last week at 5am during the Arsenal of Freedom Tour.
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Leading U.S. aerospace and defence firm Northrop Grumman has confirmed the delivery of the 1,500th centre fuselage for the F-35 fifth generation fighter from its Integrated Assembly Line in Palmdale, California. This was reportedly achieved as a result of major improvements to the application of more advanced factory automation and advanced manufacturing technologies. The firm’s Integrated Assembly Line now produces one centre fuselage every 30 hours, allows seamless production across all three variants – the F-35A developed for the U.S.

Synopsis and Key Points: Washington’s intensified focus on Greenland is framed as homeland risk management driven by polar vulnerabilities that cut across Greenland and Canada’s northern approaches.

-The argument treats North America as a single defensive system where missiles, bombers, submarines, and cyber operations exploit seams in Arctic warning and coverage. Greenland’s strategic value is tied to missile warning, space domain awareness, and command-and-control infrastructure anchored by Pituffik, but broader presence is presented as insufficient given evolving threats.

The Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ordered additional Dutch Expeditionary Patrol Vehicles (DXPVs) from Oshkosh Defense.

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the most powerful military in the world, and now it’s also a place where you can try to win sports cards and other collectible items from a Lucky Box machine.
On Christmas Eve, the company that makes the vending machines announced on social media that a Lucky Box is now inside the Pentagon.
“A place built on legacy, leadership, and history — now experiencing the thrill of Lucky Box firsthand,” Lucky Box Vending posted on Threads. “This is a milestone moment for Lucky Box and we are excited for this opportunity.

The Navy and Marine Corps awarded L3Harris Technologies a deal for 34 explosive ordnance disposal robots, the defense company announced Wednesday.
The T7 robot is a 710-pound tracked ground vehicle that can dispose of hazardous material or improvised explosive devices, according to the contractor, intended to keep human operators out of harm’s way. 
A spokesperson for L3Harris declined to disclose the contract value to DefenseScoop Wednesday. The company said that T7 deliveries to the services will begin this year.

After leaving her role performing the duties of the chief information officer for the Department of Defense last month, Katie Arrington has taken a new position as CIO at quantum computing company IonQ.
Arrington will step into the role Jan. 19, reporting to the company’s COO and CFO Inder Singh, IonQ announced Wednesday.
Kirsten Davies was nominated by President Donald Trump in May 2025 to be the Defense Department CIO, and it took most of the remainder of 2025 for the Senate to confirm her into the role.

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The Navy’s new battleship is expected to be cutting-edge. But according to the service’s top officer, it won’t use nuclear propulsion.
President Donald Trump and Navy leadership unveiled plans last month for the 35,000-plus-ton vessel, which officials say will be armed with nuclear weapons, lasers, railguns and hypersonic missiles, among other capabilities. It is part of the vision for a so-called “Golden Fleet,” which is expected to include a new frigate, unmanned vessels and other assets.

Veterans say immigration crackdowns and politics around the shooting of two National Guardsmen in November has led to ”wholesale punishment” against Afghan allies still in that country who once aided American forces and now seek refuge from the Taliban in the U.S. 
“There are zero Afghans coming right now. No refugees, no [Special Immigrant Visas]. President Trump has turned off everything,” said Shawn VanDiver, an Iraq veteran and founder of #AfghanEvac, one of several volunteer groups that were stood up to aid evacuees during the Kabul withdrawal.

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In 2023, Alfonso Camacho-Martinez wrote, “By Weakening the Military, Colombia’s Petro Imperils His Hopes for Peace,” where he argued that President Gustavo Petro has significantly weakened the military while in office. Three years later, in the midst of heightened tensions between the United States and some Latin American countries, we asked Alfonso to revisit his arguments. Image: U.S.

Rheinmetall’s Spanish subsidiary Expal Munitions will work with Escribano to submit a proposal for Spain’s future mobile rocket launcher.

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Defence firms EDGE Group and Indra Group have formalised plans to create a new defence manufacturing company in Spain.

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island sits on a remote stretch of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, surrounded by tidal marshes and waterways that underscore its isolation. Established as a permanent recruit training site in 1915, Parris Island quickly became the heart of East Coast Marine training. Its geography was intentional. Isolation reinforced discipline, eliminated civilian distractions, and created an environment where recruits could focus entirely on transformation.

The Pentagon has attempted to assure more than two dozen lawmakers that harassment and physical abuse are still prohibited in the military. This comes after members of Congress expressed concern over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s comments last year about redefining the definition of hazing and “empowering drill sergeants to instill healthy fear in new recruits.

Summary and Key Points – Operation Absolute Resolve relied on overwhelming airpower to blind Venezuela’s defenses and enable the capture of Nicolás Maduro—but the article argues the decisive enabler was electronic warfare. The EA-18G Growler, a specialized Super Hornet variant, provided the jamming and suppression needed to spoof radars, disrupt communications, and help neutralize Russian-origin surface-to-air systems including Buk and S-300 variants.

A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler prepares to refuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over the U.S.

For decades, Hollywood has trained us to fear the moment machines become self-aware. The second someone says “autonomous robots,” our brains jump straight to Skynet, red eyes glowing, end of humanity queued up behind a line of code. Reality is far less cinematic and far more interesting.
Related: The military made a robot that can eat organisms for fuel
According to a recent paper published by the Association of the United States Army, the U.S. military has officially entered a new era of robotic systems.

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The demonstration represents a key milestone in advancing operationally proven manned-unmanned teaming for maritime missions

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Tough choices about whether to put hypersonic weapons or big guns on the Navy’s latest destroyer were one of the factors that put the sea service on a path to develop a new battleship

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The defense contractor plans IPO for unit that supplies missile parts to the U.S.

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A new report published by the British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has estimated that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force will field approximately 1000 J-20 fifth generation air superiority fighters by 2030, highlighting the major surge in production levels to reach approximately 120 fighters per year in 2025.

The U.S. Army has released full-body photos of its first prototype of the M1E3 Abrams, a next generation variant of the Cold War era Abrams tank that first entered service in 1980. The new variant is by far the most revolutionary in the history of the program, and was developed after the Army abandoned plans for further modernisation of the M1A2 design.

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U.S. Army and Lithuanian Army artillery units have conducted advanced interoperability training centred on employment of the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) at the Pabrade training area in eastern Lithuania, near NATO’s border with Belarus. The exercises focused on synchronised long-range precision fires, digital command and control procedures, and rapid mobility concepts, all of which are critical to the United States’ rotational force posture in the Baltic region, a former part of the Soviet Union now on the frontlines of hostilities in Europe.

China’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) proposal, unveiled after the Fourth Party Plenum in October 2025, not only marks Beijing’s quest to achieve the People’s Liberation Army’s  goal of building a so-called world-class military by 2049. As the last major planning cycle before the 2035 benchmark for “basically achieving full modernization,” the plan also reaffirms General Secretary Xi Jinping’s core priorities: operational efficiency, technological self-reliance, and the Chinese Communist Party’s absolute command.

Synopsis and Key Points: Former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray draws striking parallels between the current 2026 protests in Iran and the 2011 Arab Spring.

-Following the collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Gray argues that Tehran faces a similar existential crisis driven by economic ruin and a loss of dignity. While the regime has survived five uprisings since 2009 due to the loyalty of the IRGC, Gray warns that “brittle” autocracies eventually shatter.

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Next-generation battleships will provide additional capacity needed to carry multiple offensive weapons and command-and-control capabilities the service does not have with its current surface fleet, a senior Navy officer said Tuesday.
President Donald Trump announced in December that the Navy would design and develop a new class of battleships as part of the future so-called “Golden Fleet.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared his team’s long-awaited new plans to outpace U.S. adversaries by rapidly advancing the military’s arsenal of AI, drones, hypersonics and other disruptive technologies — and drastically reshaping the Pentagon’s approaches for safely deploying them.
“In short, when it comes to our current threat environment, we are playing a dangerous game with potentially fatal consequences.

The crew of an Air Force special operations CV-22 Osprey survived a hard landing in New Mexico because of quick thinking by the pilots and crew when the plane suffered a major engine failure. A board investigating the mishap noted that the crew had just completed a safety stand down focused on the exact type of engine failure the crew suddenly faced during the flight.
The failure, the board found, was caused when a steel gear inside the plane’s transmission cracked in midflight, a failure that investigators linked to a dozen other Osprey mishaps in recent years.

Ryan had an hour-long conversation with Afshon Ostovar, a leading expert on the Iranian regime and its brutal security services. Afshon breaks down everything you need to know to understand the protest movement taking to the streets across Iran, openly calling for the end of this authoritarian regime. How does the regime operate its repressive apparatus? What of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the ousted shah who is waiting in the wings? What are the scenarios under which we could see the regime fall apart? How did we get here? Afshon answers these questions and more.

Sometimes you just feel a little under the weather and are looking for that extra day off.
You wouldn’t be the first person to have that feeling. Everyone experiences it, and you’re no different. When you’re in the military, though, you can’t just call out of duty and binge-watch your favorite show all day. It doesn’t work that way, my friend.
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On Dec. 17, the State Department announced approval for a major arms sales package to Taiwan. The package authorizes $11 billion worth of weapons and equipment sales to Taiwan, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, howitzers, Altius drone systems, and two missile systems. The sales are unlikely to face significant opposition in Congress. So, much now depends on Taiwan’s own defense budget and its ability to buy the weapons. China condemned the potential sales, responding by sanctioning several U.S.

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The Providers Warrior Restaurant at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, recently received a grade of “F after a Jan. 6 food service inspection, a spokesperson for the 82nd Airborne Division confirmed. The official attributed the failing grade to a “mislabeled item in a time-sensitive area,” adding that subsequent corrections and improvements by chow hall staff have since earned an upgrade to a “C.”
“Inspectors identified a procedural issue regarding the documentation of food temperatures,” Maj. Joseph Bush told Task & Purpose.