The Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles the U.S. military fired during Operation Epic Fury take months to put on contract and years to produce.Whether driven by U.S. military operations or support to partners, the challenge of quickly replenishing U.S. munitions is not new. Exquisite munitions often take an exquisite amount of time to manufacture and deliver. Defense officials, in turn, frequently want to compress that time as much as possible, seeking to restock fast and mitigate future risks.The Russo-Ukrainian War has illuminated the challenge of accomplishing this feat.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has deployed Su-30MK2 long range fighter aircraft for operations over Huangyan Island in the South China Sea. The aircraft escorted H-6L bombers as part of a major show of force to demonstrate China’s effective jurisdiction over the island’s territorial waters and airspace, with its strategic location and disputed status making such operations strategically vital.

For nine months in 2024 and 2025, I had an additional duty — monitoring an inbox that connected potential direct commission candidates with the Army’s individual branches. I served on the Army Reserve’s senior leadership team, helping to stand up a brokerage between mid-career professionals and the decentralized branch pipelines that controlled direct commission slots.

It would be odd to see a TOC Mahal in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Often spotted at U.S. Army Combat Training Center rotations or large home-station exercises, TOC Mahals are sprawling tactical operation centers (TOCs) made from a series of connected tents, vehicles, and generators. They typically have maps posted at entrances to help people find their way through a labyrinth of desks, chairs, television screens, and cables. Most division command posts, many brigade command posts, and truly exceptional battalion command posts meet the criteria of a TOC Mahal.

The United States Air Force has deployed additional F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighter aircraft to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, just days after the deployment of F-22s to Basa Air Base in the Philippines for joint exercises with local forces simulating operations against Chinese forces.Kadena Air Base is a particularly sensitive facility due to ongoing tensions with China in the Taiwan Strait, with the Japanese island providing one of the closest locations for a potential response by Washington and Tokyo to contingencies in the area.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has notched the first flight of the XRQ-73, a reconnaissance drone designed to demonstrate hybrid-electric propulsion technologies for future autonomous systems.
The flight occurred in April at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory and prime contractor Northrop Grumman, DARPA announced Wednesday.

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Military processing stations are slimming down on the number of applicants they review with a prescreening process that flags any of 28 medical conditions that are generally considered disqualifying for service.
U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, MEPCOM, officials announced Monday that they are implementing a new policy that cuts applicants earlier in the recruiting process. If an applicant has at least one of 28 identified medical conditions, they will not be invited for a physical exam with a doctor, which is required before joining the service.

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A recent Defense Department Inspector General’s report found that military shipments of rifles and other weapons were stored for as long as a week in a warehouse with no overnight guards and no security system to detect break-ins.
The Air Force agreed with the IG’s finding and said fixes are planned for the facility, located at Travis Air Force Base, California. Travis is a major mobility hub in the Air Force with military cargo shipments of all kinds routinely routed through the base. The base handled 50,000 tons of cargo in 2020, according to an Air Force press release.

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A Navy F-18 Super Hornet disabled an Iranian-flagged commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. The ship was warned to stop, said U.S. officials, as part of a U.S.-imposed blockade on the strait in recent weeks, before the jet attacked.
The incident happened about  9 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, a CENTCOM news release says. According to the U.S. military, the MT/Hasna, an Iranian-flagged oil tanker traveling unloaded, ignored multiple warnings from U.S. forces, the news release says.

The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office is eager to expand its deployment of a new task automation platform — the “CDAO Wingman” — that’s designed to help defense and military users develop and scale their own digital assistants to offload document-heavy workflows and repetitive, compliance-driven functions.

The Army, along with nine major defense companies, will embark on a series of “hackathons” later this month in an attempt to create a common operating system across the service’s disparate platforms.
The Army called the effort “Right to Integrate,” according to a Tuesday press release, which will include a “sprint” to shed conflicting information silos that have historically been a fixture of “exquisite warfighting systems” the service has purchased from industry. The integration of these platforms “frequently failed,” the service said.

As U.S. forces prepare for future war with massive casualty rates, chaplains like Capt. Alec Correa are training to face the most existential parts of war, the moments between life and death.
Correa, a chaplain for the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, recently competed in a training event at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, similar to Best Unit Ministry Team competitions held in the U.S. The contests put Unit Ministry Teams, or UMTs, of a commissioned chaplain and enlisted religious affairs specialist, through events ranging from field medical care to administering Last Rites.

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In 2025, Collin Meisel and Mathew Burrows wrote, “Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine,” where they argued Russia was able to absorb the blows Ukraine was delivering and could continue fighting for a while. A year later, we asked Collin and Mathew to revisit their assessments.Image: The Kremlin via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that due to its sheer size — in service-capable population, economy, and munitions production capacity — Russia can absorb more of a hit throughout this war than Ukraine can.

Norway will acquire 54 Leopard 2A8 NO-variant main battle tanks, with 37 units to be built at a newly-opened facility in Levanger.

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The Pentagon plans to require service members to complete cybersecurity training once every three years, DefenseScoop has learned, a move that will scrap an annual mandate and is set to upend the Army’s recent shift to a five-year requirement. 
In a Sep. 30 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the military to “restore mission focus” by reducing, consolidating or eliminating a slew of mandatory courses, such as cybersecurity training, that he said were distracting from the military’s core job of fighting wars.

Renk Group has recorded its highest ever order intake for an opening quarter, reporting €582.3m ($680.9) in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (Q1 FY26), up from €548.6m in the corresponding period last year.

Lockheed Martin and Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence have jointly unveiled Lithuania’s first HIMARS launchers.

The Dining-In is a military custom that predates the Air Force, the military, even the United States. There are many versions of the same even, whether that branch calls it Mess Night, Regimental Dinner, or something else. Though other branches hold these, this is one of the oldest traditions of America’s second-youngest branch of military service.
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This most traditional form of Air Force unit social events is held at any unit level—Wing, Group, or Squadron.

The Chief of Staff’s Bible is a tradition literally as old as the Air Force itself, but one very few have ever even heard of.
On his first days in office, the general in charge of the newly formed United States Air Force bought a Bible that’s been a part of every swearing in ceremony for Chiefs of Staff for nearly 80 years.
And in it contains the signature of all of the Air Force’s top general officers—the Chiefs.
“No documented history of the Bible exists,” Ann Stefanek, Media Operations Officer at Air Force headquarters told We Are The Mighty.

An army might run on its stomach, but let’s be real: what’s actually going in its stomach is equally important. Armies don’t run on bread alone. When Napoleon said that famous line, his army was running on wine, brandy, and vinegar. Luckily (or unluckily, for those who love a good pickleback) military food and beverage has evolved.
Also Read: The history of Rip It, the beverage that fueled the War on Terror
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“I am proud that the U.S. Army and Philippine Army have the capability to conduct training meticulously,” Col.

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Just before midnight on Nov. 24, 2025, New Castle County police officers conducting a routine property check in Wilmington’s Canby Park spotted a white Toyota Tacoma parked after hours. What initially appeared to be a standard traffic stop uncovered a detailed terror plot. The suspect — a University of Delaware student — was found in possession of a converted machine gun, more than 100 rounds of ammunition, body armor, and a handwritten notebook mapping out a planned attack on the campus police department, including entry points, escape routes, and the name of a specific officer.

Three days into the Iran war, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the quiet part out loud: The Revolutionary Guard’s Qods Force has long carried out plots around the world and now intended to deploy those capabilities against the U.S. homeland. The United States, a Qods Force statement carried on Iranian television warned, “will no longer be safe” as the Qods Force targets Americans within the homeland and abroad. “The enemy should know that their happy days are over and they will no longer be safe anywhere in the world, not even in their own homes.” U.S.

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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has moved the new Z-20T assault helicopter into air-ground training, reflecting a growing reliance on the new aircraft which is poised to revolutionise its airborne assault capabilities. Developed as the first heavyweight combat helicopter type in Chinese service, the Z-20T which was designed to complement the Z-10 attack helicopter, and made its first public appearance during a military paradeon September 3, 2025. The aircraft combines an airlift capability with integrated firepower in a single airframe.

In late April Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty confirmed that a review of plans to procure 88 F-35 fighters from the United States remained ongoing, despite this review originally having been scheduled to be concluded six months prior around September 2025, with with no timeline given for a final decision. While McGuinty noted that procurements from non-U.S. sources were under consideration, at a time when public opinion and much of the political leadership have supported reducing reliance on the U.S.

The Turkish defence sector has unveiled the country’s first type of intercontinental ballistic missile, the Yildirimhan, which is expected to transform the country’s long range strike capabilities and those of NATO more broadly. The missile has an estimated range of around 6,000 kilometres, placing it at the boundary between intermediate-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and can reportedly achieve speeds of over Mach 20. It is described as using a four-engine configuration and liquid propulsion based on nitrogen tetroxide.

Leonel Garciga left his role as the Army’s chief information officer last week, the service announced Tuesday.
His departure from the job had been anticipated. Federal News Network previously reported that he was expected to exit in June.
Garciga, a Navy veteran who has served in the federal government across intelligence, information technology and engineering sectors for nearly three decades, was selected as the Army’s CIO in July 2023.

Marine Corps leaders are considering making Scouts a Primary Military Occupational Specialty, similar to Machine Gunners and Mortarmen, said a senior Marine commander in charge of training.
Currently, Scout platoons are designated within infantry and light armor reconnaissance units and manned by Marines trained in traditional PMOS.
Marine Maj. Gen. Michael A. Brooks, who leads Training Command, laid out the concept for a Scout PMOS on Monday. 
“There is interest in turning our scout MOS, which is 0315, into a Primary MOS,” Brooks said on Monday.

The U.S. military is fusing sensors, surveillance platforms and manned and unmanned air and watercraft into a networked, AI-enabled command and control architecture as part of a large-scale campaign to retain nonstop overwatch and localized control over the Strait of Hormuz early into Project Freedom, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.
During a Pentagon press conference Tuesday, the top U.S.

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A retired Air Force fighter pilot accused of teaching American tactics to Chinese airmen allegedly drove erratically to avoid an FBI tail, kept a fake passport, and deleted messages from foreign pilots to cover his tracks, according to recent filings in federal court.
New court documents shed light on how Gerald E. Brown, 65, allegedly intended to retire in China after several years on a $250,000-per-year job teaching Chinese military pilots, prosecutors say, which he also hoped would give him a chance of “going fast again and pulling g’s.

The Pentagon for many years has repeatedly failed to pass a clean department-wide audit, but senior officials are hoping that new AI capabilities can help them get over the hump.
The department is under pressure to achieve results.
“We’ve got a mandate. Congress passed a law that says that we need to get a clean opinion by our FY28 agency-wide financial statements.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was an entirely avoidable, but potentially deadly period in Cold War history. In 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat in the Soviet Union, sent a telegram to President Harry S. Truman’s State Department about his view of the USSR’s aggression. It would come to define the United States’ relationship with the Soviets for the next 45 years.
Kennan wrote that the Soviets were “impervious to logic of reason… highly sensitive to the logic of force.” This outlook became the cornerstone of U.S.

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The war with Iran has once again raised questions about Washington’s ability to prioritize its interests in East Asia and particularly to manage intensifying competition with Beijing. Furthermore, the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have presented American and Chinese leaders with new challenges and potential opportunities, as they respond to the war’s global impacts. We asked five experts to address how the war is shaping competition between Washington and Beijing.Read more below.

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