The UK has joined a pan-European air defence programme known as LEAP, intended to detect and intercept hostile small drones.

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French sources have reported that India has been refused access to the source code governing the Rafale fighter’s main electronic systems and its electronic warfare suite, including the SPECTRA defensive aids package, as the sale of up to 114 of the aircraft remains under discussion. This follows India’s cancellation of a prior agreement to procure 126 Rafale fighters in the 2010s in large part due to the limits of the technology transfers which French negotiators were willing to offer, with only 36 fighters having been ordered.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the country will continue to treat the modernisation of its nuclear triad as an “unconditional priority” in broader efforts to strengthen the capabilities of the armed forces and tech sector. ”The development of the nuclear triad, which guarantees Russia’s security and enables us to effectively ensure strategic deterrence and balance of power in the world, remains our unconditional priority,” he stated.

In the fall of 1791, Gen. Arthur St. Clair pushed an unready, ill-trained, and poorly supplied American army of militia and regulars into the woods of central Ohio where it would experience the worst defeat in U.S. military history against Native Americans. The battle belongs to the broader Northwest Indian War, often dated 1785–1795, a conflict in which the United States sought to secure territory north of the Ohio River from the Natives, suppress their outraged raids, and more generally establish federal authority over western expansion.

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When joining the military, you either become an enlisted service member or a commissioned officer. There are also Warrant Officers, but you rarely see them, so they might as well not exist. While enlisted service members do the majority of the work, it is the officers who receive the most credit.
Sure, Private First Class Smith may have been the one to drop the mortar, but 2nd Lt. Johnson gets a bronze star because he was the one who called for fire. Also, Johnson wrote the citation for himself, and Pfc. Smith only learned to read last week. It’s unfair, really.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that one of the production lines of the new domestically developed FP-5 Flamingo long range cruise missile was destroyed as a result of a Russian strike, forcing production to be moved to a new location. This follows reports in August that Russian forces had successfully targeted four Ukrainian defence industrial facilities contributing to producing long-range missile systems, marking a major setback to the Ukrainian Sapsan ballistic missile program among others.

The commander of the Navy destroyer USS Truxtun was removed from the ship on Sunday, “due to a loss of confidence” in his ability to command, following the ship colliding with a supply vessel earlier this month.
This afternoon the Navy said that the head of Naval Forces Southern Command, Rear Adm. Carlos Sardiello, relieved Cmdr. James Koffi of command of the Truxtun. Cmdr. Taylor Auclair, previously with the U.S. Fleet Forces Command was named the interim commander of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Koffi has been reassigned to Commander, Naval Surface Group Middle Atlantic.

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.

Soldiers from across the Army raced quadcopters, tried out new inventions and tested out offensive drone tactics in the first Best Drone Warfighter Competition this past week. 
The three-day competition, held this past week at the Army Aviation Center of Excellence and the Maneuver Center of Excellence, in Huntsville, Alabama, brought together soldiers from who were working on the rapidly expanding use of drones. The competition is designed to be similar to Army events such as Best Ranger or Best Sapper.

A Mexican military UH-60 Blackhawk conducted strafing runs on cartel positions during today’s violence over the killing of a cartel leader.
Mexican military UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter using its door-mounted minigun to fire on CJNG positions near Puerto Vallarta and the Ixtapa area of Jalisco.
The helicopter conducted low strafing runs to support army and National Guard forces, targeting armed gunmen and roadblocks.
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An airman at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is accused of defrauding the Department of Defense of millions of dollars, in an allegedly years-long scheme.
This past week the Department of Justice announced that Staff Sgt. Richard Ramroop, a pharmacy technician assigned to Davis-Mothan Air Force Base in Arizona, and his spouse were indicted on 12 counts including theft of government property and wire fraud. Ramroop and his spouse, Manuel Madrid, are accused of stealing and reselling Department of Defense medical equipment and supplies to purchase luxury items.

With polar temperatures dipping into the Southern U.S. every winter, many Americans are finding a newfound respect for their usual temperate climate. Even for the briefest of moments, negative temperatures and high winds prove to be an unwanted combination. But when it comes to working in the actual Arctic (not just a place that feels like the Arctic), there’s no such thing as warming up. Soldiers train for years to adapt to the harsh conditions of working in blizzards and dangerous cold. 
Such was the case in 1946 and 1947, when Task Force 68 of the U.S.

The Russian Su-34 strike fighter is currently the longest ranged tactical combat aircraft operational anywhere in the world, with its endurance being comparable to those of many types of strategic bombers, providing operational flexibility for a wide range of mission requirements from extended loitering to deep penetration missions.

Military life is built on structure. Ranks, missions, and expectations are all part of the culture. That structure does more than organize a career; it shapes identity. And it shapes relationships, in and out of the uniform. When two people build a life inside the military, their love grows inside that framework. It grows and thrives with structure. Deployment cycles, PCS moves, career decisions, duty days, and reintegration constantly challenge relationships to evolve in the military.

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British Secretary of State for Defence John Healey has announced that he hopes to be the first holder of his office to deploy forces in Ukraine. “I want to be the defence minister who sends British troops to Ukraine – because that will mean the end of this war. It will mean that we have concluded peace negotiations in Ukraine. And a secure Europe needs a strong, sovereign Ukraine,” he stated.

Leaked Russian government documents have indicated that the Iranian Defence Ministry has singed an arms deal valued at $580 million to procure 500 9K333 Verba man-portable short range surface-to-air missile launchers and 2,500 associated 9M336 missiles over three years. The deal was reportedly negotiated between Russian state arms export conglomerate Rosoboronexport, and the Moscow representative of the Iranian Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics.

The U.S. Army has deployed M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) for live fire exercises during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) drills in Alaska, which has reportedly served to validate a capability to “rapidly deploy, integrate and deliver accurate long range fires across extended distances despite extreme cold temperatures and challenging terrain.

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Satellite imagery has confirmed the redeployment of Iranian Air Force S-300PM-2 long range air defencesystems to air defence sites near the capital Tehran, as well as to the second city of Isfahan. This has occurred amid a large scale buildup of U.S. forces around the country, with several hundred aircraft having been redeployed across the Atlantic and from the Pacific to support a possible offensive against Iranian targets. This buildup has included multiple specialised air defence suppression aircraft, among which are several squadrons of U.S.

What do you do before ordering hundreds of thousands of men into an invasion of Europe? What kind of pressure does that put on a leader? That’s the big question behind “Pressure,” a new film charting Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s stressful hours leading up to the launch of D-Day. It’s also about the weather.
“Pressure,” adapted from writer David Haig’s 2014 play of the same name, arrives this spring and just released its trailer.

In 2026, I returned to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island not as a recruit, but as an educator participating in the U.S. Marine Corps Educators Workshop (EWS). The moment I stepped back onto the depot, memory arrived uninvited. The humidity, the cadence echoing across open ground, the unmistakable posture of Marines moving with purpose—it all felt immediately familiar.
Also Read: The friendly rivalry between ‘Hollywood Marines’ and Parris Island Marines
Parris Island is not an abstract chapter of Marine Corps history for me. It is deeply personal.

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As the national conversation swirls around Pete Hegseth’s challenge of women in combat, it may be hard to imagine a similar situation more than a half-century ago. The question today is: “Do women deserve access to combat roles?”
Back then, it was: “Do men deserve access to nursing roles?’ 
For the majority of the 20th Century, men were barred from commissioning in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) solely on the basis of their gender.
Related: 10 reasons to become a military nurse 
To understand this little-known piece of history, we need a crash course in the history of Army nurses.

By Col. Bill Conner, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors
As happened with Joe Biden in 2020, the Democrats in Virginia pulled off another bait and switch with Abigail Spanberger as Governor. The Democrats ran Spanberger as a moderate to win yet now governing to the left of Karl Marx in all the initial executive orders.
As one VA GOP lawmaker put it, “Virginians were sold a facade of practical solutions to make the commonwealth affordable—instead, they’re getting Zohran Mamdani-style collectivism..”
And another noted “Gov.

The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is asking his fellow Marines for help. He wants them to ask for help.
Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz took to Instagram on Friday to talk about suicide in the Marine Corps. In a video, Ruiz told troops that, even if they don’t realize it, there might be Marines in their formations that are struggling with feelings of loneliness and pain, feelings that can lead to them taking their own lives.

The United States has ramped up pressure on Ira

James Mingus & Sam Kriegler & R. J. Burton, MWI
… the Army must learn from Washington’s lesson on mobility or risk a fate that nearly ended us before the nation even began.

Chad Machiela & Seth Gray, Small Wars Journal
Department of Defense Instruction 3000.

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If diplomatic efforts to end Iran’s nuclear program fail, the president’s appetite for a potentially lengthy war will be tested

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The United States Marine Corps has decided to retain the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle for its close combat formations rather than adopt the Army’s M7 Next…

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North Korea’s troops in Russia — where

South Carolina Air National Guard F-16CJ fourth generation fighters in the process of being deployed to the Middle East have been confirmed to have integrated new Angry Kitten electronic warfare pods, which has the potential to significantly improve variability against advanced air defences like those deployed by Iran.

Summary and Key Points: The British Challenger 2 has proven to be a vital, though heavy, asset for Ukraine’s 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade.

-Renowned for its Dorchester composite armor, the tank provides exceptional crew survivability, famously allowing a crew to survive a 720mm-deep hit from a helicopter rocket.

Challenger 2 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Its 120mm rifled gun acts like a “sniper rifle,” enabling precision strikes up to 5.3 km away.

Leopard 2 vs. Drone: How Ukraine is Adapting Germany’s Best Tank 
The Leopard 2 is widely considered one of the world’s best, most reliable, and most capable main battle tanks; some armor analysts and enthusiasts consider it the equal of, if not better than, the American M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams.

Swedish soldiers with the Wartofta Tank Company, Skaraborg Regiment in a Stridsvagn 122 main battle tank conduct the defensive operations lane during the Strong Europe Tank Challenge, June 7, 2018. U.S.

President Donald Trump’s vow this week to direct the release of government files about UFOs and aliens is sparking a new wave of anticipation and momentum around long-standing calls for more transparency on this historically taboo topic, experts and whistleblowers told DefenseScoop. 
Yet as they acknowledge that this could mark a meaningful step towards addressing national security concerns, public intrigue and congressional oversight, multiple officials who have been involved for years in influential U.S.

Lockheed Martin just unveiled Lamprey, a multi-

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s undersea dominance is threatened by a shrinking force structure and an overstretched industrial base. While the Virginia-class Block V remains a formidable multi-role asset—restoring strike capacity via the Virginia Payload Module (VPM)—it is a 1990s-era design. The proposed SSN(X) promises the speed, quieting, and advanced sonar necessary to penetrate 2040-era Chinese A2/AD networks.

The Defense Intelligence Agency held an assumption of directorship ceremony Friday for its new boss, Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams.
Adams, also known as “Rainman” among colleagues, is a U.S. Naval Academy alumnus with a degree in computer science who has more than 300 combat flight hours under his belt as an AH-1W Super Cobra pilot.
He most recently served as deputy commandant for programs and resources, the top advisor to the commandant of the Marine Corps on issues related to resourcing, budgeting, financial execution and audit.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben did not arrive in America as a conqueror or a celebrated general with armies at his command. He arrived as a professional soldier without a commission, without wealth, and without fluency in English. What he possessed instead was knowledge.
At a time when the Continental Army lacked uniform training, consistent discipline, and professional standards, von Steuben provided the structure necessary for liberty to endure.

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The best cross country runners across the milit

You don’t get to be a person of Teddy Roosevelt’s stature in history by being lazy.
The president who could barely breathe as a youngster never took his body for granted. He was an avid outdoorsman, athlete, and boxer.
When he became president in 1901, he was appalled at the lack of fitness among Navy sailors at the time. As commander in chief, he set out to do something about it.