As the Pentagon goes all-in on “drone dominance,” the U.S. military must pivot away from existing service-by-service stovepipes and institute a connected, joint approach to deploying autonomous and robotics assets in warfare, according to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle.
“I want to be direct on something here — the Navy and Marine Corps should not be independently building two versions of the same autonomous future,” Caudle said onstage Thursday morning at the Modern Day Marine conference.

The Army Rugby Union Women’s side have be

Congress has cleared the way for the Coast Guard to be funded again after the House of Representatives approved a spending bill on Thursday for most of the Department of Homeland Security. The move should restore paychecks to nearly 10,000 civilian employees of the service, and reopen a wide range of benefits for Coast Guard members, from moving expenses to college tuition plans.
The move comes after a 76-day funding fight that has been a grueling experience for members of the Coast Guard and their families.

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Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranThree weeks since a ceasefire took effect, the United States and Iran have shifted from open hostilities to unsuccessful negotiations to economic brinksmanship. The Trump administration has been squeezing Tehran on two parallel fronts: A naval blockade physically subduing its maritime trade, complemented by increasing sanctions pressure against its oil and banking networks.

The T-95 was a Russian experimental fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) developed by Uralvagonzavod. The T-95 was supposed to revolutionize armored warfare with advanced features and formidable firepower, but was canceled in 2010.

Planned to be equipped with a 152 mm smoothbore main gun capable of launching guided missiles and firing high-explosive rounds, the T-95 would have had immense firepower, much more than any other MBT in the world.

T-95 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was once a dominant regional naval force. But the fleet has been severely weakened, resulting in a shift from an offensive force to a defensive “fleet-in-being.” What’s notable about the fleet’s degradation is that Ukraine didn’t need a traditional navy to inflict it; rather, it used drones, missiles, and targeting to strip the Black Sea Fleet of its ability to operate, offering another example of asymmetric, cheap measures crippling traditional, expensive military platforms.

Scale of the Losses

Russian Navy Kirov-Class. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Canada’s aging CF-18 fleet is on the up, it seems, with the Royal Canadian Air Force finally moving to bolster its legacy fighters with the AIM-120D-3 AMRAAM. Back in February, Canadian CF-18 Hornets carried out successful live-fire testing of the AIM-120D-3 at Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base.

The exercise included aircraft from 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron and appears to mark the first publicly documented launch of the D-3 variant from a non-U.S. military jet.

Canada Air Force CF-18. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

For serving personnel and veterans living with

A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler scored a simulated kill on an F-22 Raptor during a 2009 Nellis exercise—and painted a Raptor kill marking on its fuselage afterward. How did a fourth-generation jamming aircraft beat the world’s premier stealth fighter? Electronic warfare and geometry are the answer.

Even the F-22 Raptor Can Be Beaten 
The F-22 Raptor is widely regarded as the world’s premier air superiority fighter. Yet in 2009, during an exercise at Nellis AFB, a US Navy EA-18G Growler reportedly scored a simulated AIM-120 “kill” against an F-22.

Most people picture Cold War Sweden as a quiet neutral nation, content to sit out the superpower drama. The reality was more ambitious. In the 1950s, Saab’s designers quietly drew up plans for a Mach 2+ delta-winged nuclear bomber called the Saab 36—a fighter-bomber that would have given Stockholm its own atomic strike capability and forced Washington and Moscow to take Swedish airspace seriously.

Veterans who raised their concerns about the co

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When I first tested GenAI.mil a few months ago, the main achievement was establishing an approved and secure Generative AI platform for the entire DoW to use. That was a massive first step. The early version provided a good starting place but lacked some of the features it needed to fully realize its potential for the Department of War.
Since then, the platform has evolved. The development team has clearly listened to user feedback, rolling out new features, including model upgrades to Gemini 3.

Ukraine’s concept of a 15km-deep drone kill zone is intended to hold the line in the face of Russian attacks, and limit Ukrainian casualties.

Ukraine’s concept of a 15km-deep drone kill zone is intended to hold the line in the face of Russian attacks, and limit Ukrainian casualties.

Three decades since the end of the troubles, th

The Eurofighter Typhoon first entered service in the early 2000s, the product of a multinational European effort to produce a modern air superiority fighter.

Originally designed during the late Cold War to counter Soviet aircraft, the Typhoon’s role has been incrementally expanded, ensuring enduring relevance long after the Soviet threat disappeared.

A German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon flies over Alaska during exercise Arctic Defender 24 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 8, 2024.

The US Army’s one-two punch on the battlefield during the Cold War was the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank and the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). Both platforms were supplied to Ukraine for its war against Russia and were operated mostly by the 47th Mechanized Brigade.

The M1A1’s performance in theatre has been less impressive than anticipated, for a number of reasons. One of those is that this tank was not supplied in sufficient numbers. Other complications, such as logistical support and less than adequate maintenance, also have arisen.

The Australian government is investing an initial amount of A$126.9m ($90.7m) to strengthen domestic production of solid rocket motors.

An Army infantryman at Fort Polk, Louisiana, cited the “cause” of white nationalism in online threats to attack a synagogue and kill “every single Jew,” according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
Spec. Jakob Marcoulier, 22, was charged April 23 with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. The FBI obtained audio recordings of comments Marcoulier allegedly made on the messaging platform Discord in which he threatened to act in the coming months “if the Jews still have reign over our government,” the indictment stated.

When you hear about Russian subs and warships i

As far back as 2019, Air Force weapons developers said the fighter had received massive structural upgrades to its upper wing skin and fittings, upper and lower bulkhead, and canopy sill longeron.

These adjustments extended the F-16’s service life by up to 4,000 flight hours, increasing its operational capability from 8,000 to 12,000 flight hours.

F-16 Fighting Falcon National Security Journal Photo. Taken on 9/18/2025 Onboard USS Intrepid.

The U.S. war effort in Iran has created a real-world testing ground of U.S. military capabilities that might be needed in a potential future conflict with China.

While Iran and China differ greatly in scale and power, the current conflict can serve as a laboratory for refining tactics, technologies, and operational concepts that would be critical in a showdown with a more powerful adversary.

The U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team performs during the 2025 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show in San Diego, Sept. 27, 2025.

Hungary has turned the page. After 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán, opposition leader Péter Magyar has emerged as the winner by a landslide. Ryan is joined by Sándor Ésik, the lawyer and writer behind the Hungarian Muse, to understand how Orbán built his “soft-authoritarian” system, how it failed to stave off Magyar’s challenge, and what comes next. Of course, Orbán was anti-Ukrainian, pro-Russian, and antagonistic towards the European Union, so they also discuss what a post-Orbán Hungary means on those fronts.

Here’s a fact that does not exactly inspire confidence, at least until we really dig into what this may or may not mean: China’s navy is now larger than the U.S. Navy.

That point is repeated so often that it has begun to stand in for analysis.

It shouldn’t.

Fleet size, taken on its own, tells us very little about the question that actually matters: whether the United States can bring effective naval power to bear in the Western Pacific when it needs to.
That is the issue on which any serious contingency in the region would turn.

In January, the Army unveiled a pre-prototype version of the M1E3 Abrams, which is expected to serve as the Army’s next-generation main battle tank.

While the demonstrator vehicle is not the final iteration of the M1E3, it offers a glimpse into what the Army wants with the M1E3 program.

With an unmanned turret, a new hybrid power system, and simplified controls for easier training, the new tank is lighter and more technologically advanced while retaining what works from previous Abrams tanks.

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Misawa Air Base in northern Japan is about to get a serious upgrade. The Pentagon is replacing the 36 F-16 Fighting Falcons currently flying out of the installation with 48 brand-new F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters—a permanent deployment of America’s most advanced tactical aircraft along the first island chain. The move comes as the Trump administration sharpens its Indo-Pacific posture against China, North Korea, and Russia, and as Japan’s own defense modernization accelerates. With JASDF F-35As already operating from Misawa, the U.S.

YouTuber and AI-slop extraordinaire Gorm The Old has released new videos that might soon be his greatest hits: Summaries of the most important events of World War I and World War II, animated entirely through clips from “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and modified to take place across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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The result, while maybe not the most historically accurate use of uniforms and tactics, is still hilarious for both World War history buffs and “GTA: San Andreas” fans.

The U.S. Navy reports that the long-anticipated MQ-25 Stingray carrier-launched refueler drone has finally completed its first operational test flight, something of great consequence for air attack campaigns given the risks and problems associated with the Air Force’s fleet of large, non-stealthy fixed-wing tanker aircraft.

MQ-25: Fixed-Wing Tankers That Are a Game Changer

MQ-25. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The largest problem with large fixed-wing tankers is quite self-evident, as they simply operate with a survivability problem.

The $64,000.00 question: Will the goshdarn SR-72 Son of Blackbird “SOB” ever actually fly? Ever since its epic appearance in the opening scene of the 2022 box office blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” the SR-72 “Darkstar” AKA “SOB” has captured the imaginations of moviegoers, even though, as far as we officially know, the plane’s existence is purely apocryphal.

When the United States Air Force was looking for a fifth-generation air superiority fighter, the two competing planes were the YF-22 Raptor and the YF-23 Black Widow II. Ultimately, the Air Force chose the Raptor. Alas, we have a special place in our National Security Journal for the YF-23, as we have visited the only two of these warplanes ever built. We have included original photos of those visits in this article.

But the Black Widow was the preferred plane among the pilots–including the great Chuck Yeager–who argued the better bird was the YF-23.

Rheinmetall’s Mission Master Unmanned Gro

When the Human Genome Project was announced in 1990, its leaders specified three main goals. They sought to sequence the 3.2 billion letters in the human genome, or DNA; map other genomes important to studying biology; and improve DNA analysis. 
Realizing the challenge ahead of them, organizers set a timeline of 15 years to complete the project. Scientists from the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, and China didn’t need that long. The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the project’s completion on April 14, 2003.

China’s upcoming H-20 stealth bomber does not compare with either the United States Cold War-era B-2 Spirit bomber — nor with the upcoming B-21 Raider, a sixth-generation bomber. This comes according to the Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, General Stephen L. Davis. Though General Davis did concede that the Chinese are fielding increasingly sophisticated aircraft, he regards their designs as less sophisticated and therefore less capable.

Heavy armour such as IFVs and tanks are driving a forecast surge in the global armour market over the next decade.

The Republic of China Army has taken delivery of its final batch of M1A2T Abrams main battle tanks from the United States, with the vehicles delivered to the service’s Army Armor Training Command at Hsinchu, in the northwestern region of Taiwan Island. The tanks will be deployed with the 6th Army Corps, based in near the capital Taipei in the city of Taoyuan, which is responsible for operations in the island’s northern regions.

Tank manufacturer KNDS has initiated an “independent investigation” into a 2013 transaction with the Qatar Armed Forces.

The United States has pledged to provide $2 billion in military support to the Republic of China Armed Forces to accelerate modernisation efforts, with funding prioritising the rapid delivery of operational capabilities. Aid will reportedly prioritise the strengthening air defense, anti-ship strike, and battlefield awareness, to support an anti-access area denial strategy built around survivable, mobile, and distributed systems. The aid was pledged under the U.S. Department of War’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, which has seen major surge in defence spending to $1.

Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty has confirmed that a review of plans to purchase 88 F-35A fifth generation fighter aircraft is currently ongoing, with no timeline given for a final decision, adding that procurements from non-U.S. sources was under consideration. “The review of the purchase of the F-35s is continuing,” he stated, adding: “We are taking the necessary time to study very, very closely the question of the fighter fleet.

As Joe Kittinger fell more than 76,000 feet out of the sky, his parachute failed to deploy.
The mishap in late 1959 caused Kittinger to spin horizontally at about 90 revolutions per minute and lose consciousness. Without his reserve chute automatically activating, the U.S. Air Force pilot was going to die.
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However spooked Kittinger was after the nearly tragic event, it didn’t dissuade him from free-falling again.

When the Royal Canadian Air Force announced it was opening a competition to replace its aging CF-18 fighters in 2017, the need was to purchase 88 fighter aircraft to fulfill its requirements for the next several decades.

Among the competitors vying for the role of Canada’s next fighter were the Lockheed Martin F-35, a fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Saab JAS-39 Gripen, and the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Most China watchers assume that leaders in Beijing always want to go on the offensive militarily, whether it is attacking Taiwan, taking more island territory, or exporting its authoritarian government system to other countries in the developing world.

But another way to look at it is that China is playing defense, and it can accomplish this strong posture by focusing on anti-ship missiles, drones, plus manned fighters and bombers to create a defensive arc or bubble.

Chef Robert Irvine and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said poor-quality meals in schools, hospitals, prisons and military bases are fueling chronic disease. Irvine argued that improving food doesn’t require spending more money. “Look, we can do this. It’s not about money,” he said on the debut of “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”

by Jill Erzen
We’re making millions of Americans who eat in schools, hospitals, prisons and on military bases “sick with the food we serve them,” chef Robert Irvine said on the first episode of “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.

The F-15J is a variant of the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle licensed to Japan.

Though most of the fighters were identical to the base F-15, the U.S. withheld the engines and some avionics from the licensing agreement due to security concerns, allowing the Japanese to tailor the aircraft to their specific needs.

A 96th Test Wing F-15E Strike Eagle flies during a test mission May 22, 2025 over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

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Lt. Col. Asad “Genghis” Khan (Ret.) is a former Marine infantry officer and commander of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines (1/6). He is a highly decorated combat leader who led the 1/6 Battalion Landing Team (BLT) during an historic combat deployment to Afghanistan in 2004; his profile is often associated with controversy following his relief from command by the Colonel (later General) Frank McKenzie USMC.
Background and Military ServiceBorn in Pakistan, Khan immigrated to the United States as a child and rose through the ranks of the Marine Corps to become a lieutenant colonel.

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National Defense
The Marine Corps’ Modular Advanced Radio Architecture is a top priority for its tactical communications and electromagnetic warfare systems office

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Sikorsky’s R66 Turbinetruck is set to carry up to 2,500 pounds without a crew onboard under a new $15.