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The National Security Strategy’s effort to articulate a new language of US-Europe relations misses the mark but will nonetheless forge a more…
Chamberlain, New York Post Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro claimed in a new interview that the Caracas government is “ready” to discuss an agreement with the US to prevent drug trafficking.
Newdick, War Zone The cruise missile system, able to strike deep into China, appeared on the road during high-profile PLA live-fire drills surrounding the island.
Kris Osborn, 19FortyFive U.S. Army modernization is pivoting fast: XM30, M1E3 Abrams, hypersonics, and drones—after the M10 Booker stumble exposed hard limits.
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The Bundeswehr, the German Armed Forces, has a history of fielding German-made firearms. After all, German firearms manufacturers are some of the best in the world, with Oberndorf-based Heckler & Koch being among the world’s largest manufacturers. With this in mind, it might be a bit of a surprise that the Bundeswehr announced the selection of the Czech-made CZ P-10C as the new German service pistol.
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The latest production batch of T-90M main battle tanks delivered to the Russian Army is integrating a new variant of the Arena-M active protection system, which Defence Ministry sources have confirmed has an “anti-drone” mode to protect the vehicles against attacks by single use unmanned aircraft and loitering munitions. This new capability was reportedly achieved by developing new software for the Arena-M system, work on which is reported to have been completed in 2025.
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Saab has secured a contract from the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence to supply RBS 70 Bolide air defence missiles.
Mechanized warfare is not dead. Observers have been debating this topic since the Ukrainian military and volunteers beat back the Russian assault on Kiev in 2022. The professional discourse that has ensued often devolves into disputes about specific technologies or weapon systems and their perceived value on the future battlefield. Everyone is missing the big picture.Frontlines in Ukraine today present eerie similarities to World War I but with advanced technologies inhibiting mechanized attacks.
In early November, after meeting China’s defense minister, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth performed a longstanding ritual in military relations between the United States and China: He announced that the two countries would “set up military-to-military channels to deconflict and de-escalate” problems between them. Like most rituals, this one is unlikely to have any practical effect.
The United States in 2025 continued large scale deliveries of military equipment to modernise the inventories of the Republic of China Armed Forces, following a policy shift under the first Trump administration in 2019 to much more actively support military modernisation efforts. The status of the Republic of China government has left the U.S. as its only significant military supplier, with the government’s lack of international recognition or diplomatic relations with all but twelve minor countries leaving other arms producing countries unwilling to equip its forces.
The U.S. Air Force is expected to increase the concentrate of deployments of its remaining fleet of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers in the Pacific in for the remainder of the 2020s and into the 2030s, as the integration of the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) has made the aircraft in many respects the most capable in the Western world in its ability to threaten adversary surface fleets. The bombers have been presented as an asymmetric asset that would allow the U.S.
The Texas-based firm Intelligent Energy has proposed using retired nuclear reactors currently integrated onto the U.S. Navy’s first Nimitz class supercarrier, USS Nimitz, to supply electricity for artificial intelligence data centres at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. First deployed in March 1975, the 50 year old carrier is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2026, with the dismantling and recycling a aircraft expected to unfold across five phases, each taking up to a decade, with total costs expected to exceed $1 billion.
You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about the sky-rocketing cases of the seasonal flu. There is good reason why the media is sounding the alarm, this year’s seasonal flu is one for the record books:
The CDC estimates there have been at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations and 1,900 deaths from flu this season so far, according to data updated as of Dec. 19, and experts expect these numbers will continue to rise.
Flu cases and hospitalizations from the flu are skyrocketing in many parts of the country.
AFP was on-site a few months back at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The place was booming as Trump attempts to restore American shipbuilding to its former glory.
From the Huntington Ingalls Industries website:
In 1938, Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation was founded by Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. (1882–1951), on the East Bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. It started out building commercial ships until the 1950s, when Ingalls started bidding on Navy work.
Russia’s Aerospace Forces have shot down a Ukrainain Air Force Su-27 fighter, according to a short statement published by the Russian Defence Ministry. The circumstances o the shootdown remain unclear. The reported incident closely follows a prior shootdown of a Su-27 on December 8, resulting in the death of the aircraft’s pilot Lieutenant Colonel Yevhenii Ivanov, a senior navigator of the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade. Another Su-27 was destroyed in late April during an engagement with Russian unmanned aircraft.
The 1950s were a time of rapid innovation in aviation. The world emerged from World War II with an intense curiosity about new technologies and a heightened interest in military superiority. The Cold War was beginning to heat up, and the U.S. military was focused on developing any technology that might provide a strategic advantage.
For decades the United States military has dreamed of developing jetpacks to ferry troops around. Personalized flying machines could turn an infantryman into an airborne fighter. But alongside rocket-propelled soldiers, the U.S. military also once gave personal vertical take-off and landing machines a shot.
They are better described, and are classified as flying platforms. Soldiers would stand on a small platform, which itself was over a large fan that would generate lift and get troops airborne.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber detail the continuing lies emanating from Ukraine and the truth on the ground in Donbass.
The post The Logic Of Why Is Missing In Ukraine – Pete Blaber – Ukraine SitRep 12/31/25 appeared first on Armed Forces Press.
NGOs rise out of the muck of the Deep State to foment hate and discontent with those who’ve sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution
Here come the shadowy NGOs in the counter-attack to undermine a legally elected President and his Administration.
The group “Win Without War” is now funding signs, emails, and billboards outside military bases essentially soliciting sworn military and civilian members of the U.S. Government to collect and report information for legal actions against the Administration.
The new year is a busy time, but it’s also a good time to set aside a little to review your financial situation and make plans for 2026. As part of those plans, early January is a great time to increase your contributions to the military’s Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).
Related: Everything there is to know about military pay and veteran benefits for 2026
TSP Basics
TSP is a tax-advantaged retirement savings account, similar to a civilian 401(k). Contributions are made directly from your military pay account.
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Editor’s Note: Defense tech enthusiasts may be familiar with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous Arsenal of Democracy speech, which solemnly and urgently called for material support to Europe in its fight against the Nazis. In that “fireside chat,” broadcast to radios across the country, Roosevelt appealed to the American people to break from their tradition of noninterventionism and appeasement to support the war effort. But Roosevelt delivered another speech two weeks later to Congress, on January 6, 1941, that struck a different tone. That address is excerpted below.
The Venezuelan Air Force has been confirmed to have received Iranian Mohajer-6 unmanned aircraft, which is the first known armed drone type have been brought into service in the country. The aircraft are based at El Libertador Air Base, the Air Force’s primary operational facility, where the country’s Su-30MK2 fighters have also been based. The Mohajer-6 is deployed by the armed forces of Iran and Russia, with unconfirmed reports also indicating deployments by Sudan, Ethiopia, and formerly by Syria.
As part of efforts spanning more than a decade to rapidly expand the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s fleet of advanced destroyers, the service commissioned seven new destroyers in 2025, all of which were Type 052D class ships. These included the warship Weinan (hull number 166), commissioned in March 2025, the Suzhou (hull number 158), commissioned in May 2025, the Cangzhou (hull number 125), commissioned on May 29, 2025, the Heze (hull number 126), commissioned in July 2025, and the Zhumadian (hull number 127), commissioned on July 27, 2025.
The year 2025 saw the intensification of conflicts across multiple theatres, and the outbreak of new hostilities in Latin America, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, while major developments in ongoing arms races have shifted consensus among analysts regarding long term power trajectories affecting several key hotspots.
It was nearing midnight just two days before Thanksgiving when a small Marine Corps drone buzzed to life, obscuring the sound of insects chirping away at the Puerto Rican military facility known as Camp Santiago.
Then there was an explosion, briefly illuminating the drone’s target — a container — and the flora surrounding it in an otherwise dark night, according to a Marine Corps video of the exercise. A voice then cracked over the radio: the target was destroyed.
An analysis of federal health survey data found that children in U.S. military families are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at higher rates than children in civilian families. Children’s Health Defense scientists, who conducted the study, said child exposure to toxins, either directly or through their parents, cannot be ignored and must be investigated.
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Air Force Special Operations Command is interested in equipping its AC-130J Ghostrider aircraft with SpaceX’s made-for-government Starlink/Starshield terminals.
According to a request for information posted to Sam.gov on Tuesday, AFSOC is conducting market research for “ruggedized Starlink/Starshield integration solutions onto AC-130J Ghostrider” — a gunship that primarily provides close air support and armed reconnaissance for ground-based forces.
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the numbers don’t spin…and happy New Year to all
Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian flight deckImage by 中国新闻社
As the final post of 2025, let’s look at the warships the U.S. Navy commissioned this year.
Carriers:
None. Next scheduled in 2027.
Amphibious Ships:
None. Next LHA expected in 2026.
Destroyers:
None. Two expected in 2026.
Frigates or Other Small Surface Combatants:
USS Pierre, LCS-38
Attack Submarines:
USS Iowa, SSN-797
So, a LCS and a SSN. 2026 should be a bit better, but it is what it is.
Two.
If you are reading this, conduct a sensitive items check on your sanity. You made it. You survived another twelve months of last-minute orders to places that haven’t been added to maps yet, healthcare transitions that will be studied for centuries, and the special brand of politics that comes from being told “we care about you.” At the same time, you’re doing battle with the black mold that has achieved sentience in your laundry room.
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A failure to properly follow procedures and a lack of supervision led to the death of an airman last year in Alaska. That’s according to a newly released Air Force investigation, which found that Staff Sgt. Charles Crumlett’s death while working on a F-22 Raptor was in part because of a lax attitude from his maintenance crew.
Crumlett died on March 15, 2024, while working as a weapons load crew chief at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. He was working on an F-22A Raptor fighter jet when a weapons bay closed on him, resulting in a fatal head injury.
Radcliffe, Express Russian state broadcaster have thanked Trump and claimed “knockout victory” over Ukraine after his Mar-a-Lago summit
Straits Times The drills forced Taiwan to cancel some domestic flights and dispatch jets and warships to monitor. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures There is talk of Russia moving into Belarus, launching attacks on Latvia and Lithuania, and preparing a massive operation in and around the Black Sea.
Another year of military entertainment has come and gone, and 2025 gave us everything from gritty “SEAL Team” authenticity to Netflix documentaries that’ll make you want to reenlist. But it also delivered some absolute stinkers that make you wonder if anyone involved ever actually met a service member. From blockbuster films to video games and podcasts, here’s what dominated the military media landscape this year.
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As 2025 comes to an end, we at War on the Rocks reflect on the stories and events that our readers found most compelling in a year marked by fresh conflicts, long-standing rivalries, cutting-edge military technology, and the ongoing importance of learning from the past. Our most-read pieces show the variety of our interests and the complexity of our world, from geopolitical conflicts in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East to the change in how the United States views itself and interacts with allies and adversaries.
DroneShield has secured an $8.2m contract to deliver counter-drone equipment and related services to a Western military customer.
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