In October 1944, Beauford Anderson dodged enemy fire as he raced 50 yards to rescue two service members in the Philippines.
Anderson received a Bronze Star for his selfless and courageous act. Six months later, the Army technical sergeant’s heroism during World War II again was on full display at the Battle of Okinawa.
Related: A World War II POW who defied Nazis to protect Jewish soldiers will receive the Medal of HonorAfter single-handedly repelling a fierce Japanese attack and safeguarding his unit’s flank on April 13, 1945, Anderson received the Medal of Honor.

The war with Iran is into its fifth week, and despite much of its military power being destroyed by U.S. and Israeli strikes, Tehran has yet to give in or show any signs of external vulnerability or internal destabilization. If anything, it is increasingly convinced that whenever the guns fall silent, it will come out on top.The main source of Iran’s confidence is its upper hand in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints and aortic valves of globalized production.In response to U.S.

What will the UK look to replace its ageing Lan

Australian defence company NIOA and US firm General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) have entered into an agreement to jointly examine supplying 70mm rockets for the Australian Army’s AH-64E Apache helicopters.

TerMit ground drones line up during a demonstration as Ukraine expands the battlefield role of unmanned ground systems. (Source: DEV.ua)

Kyiv, Ukraine – Ground robotic systems have the potential to replace as much as one-third of Ukrainian infantry troops operating on the line of contact, according to a senior Ukrainian military commander.

Editor’s Note: The following article contains graphic photos of dead people and might be disturbing to some readers.When I teach the American Civil War to my students, I always remind them that war not only reshapes politics, borders, and governments, it can also change society in deeply personal ways. War affects how families mourn, how communities remember the dead, and how nations honor those who gave their lives.

In a US Department of War update, a senior US military official confirmed the start of B-52 bombing runs over Iran.

The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah was reported by multiple Israeli sources to have launched a Scud ballistic missile attack on Palmachim Airbase in Israel, likely using a Scud-D or similar modernised Scud variant, marking the first ever ballistic missile attack to be launched from Lebanon in the country’s history. This follows Israel’s full scale invasion of Southern Lebanon in early March, after Israel and the United States’ launch of a sustained high intensity assault on Hezbollah’s strategic partner Iran on February 28.

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T&P
The already long deployment for the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier could last 11 months, Chief of Naval Operations ADM Daryl Caudle said.

Riley Ceder, Navy Times
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W.

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Kevin R. James, RealClearDefense
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Bruce Stubbs, Breaking Defense
ADM Daryl Caudle’s Fighting Instructions aims to guide the Navy’s future, but it does not make the tradeoffs or force-design decisions a true strategy…

In late 2024, Chinese models accounted for one percent of global AI workloads. By the end of 2025, that figure had surged to 30 percent. Alibaba’s Qwen family now boasts over 700 million downloads, making it the world’s largest provider of “open-source” AI systems that are publicly released and capable of being downloaded and run locally.

What if the next war is decided not by drone swarms, hypersonic missiles, or AI — but by good, old-fashioned human creativity? We have undervalued the mindset dimension that is critical to innovation yet it is the cornerstone of defense organizations’ adaptability and very difficult to scale. We cannot buy (military) innovators.One of the most important shifts happening inside NATO today is not a drone platform, a software suite, or a breakthrough in AI — it is the growing recognition that innovation is a transferable skill between people.

America’s war against Iran has sparked heated debates over U.S. strategic priorities, military objectives, and defense industrial capacity. It has also fueled speculation about how a hypothetical clash between the United States and the People’s Republic of China might unfold. Tehran’s ability to launch salvo after salvo of simple attack drones reflects current thinking about how the proliferation of cheap, easily producible precision weapons is changing the character of war, and previews some of the challenges that Washington might confront in a fight with Beijing.

Following growing concerns in the Western world that the U.S. Air Force F-47 sixth generation fighter could enter service close to a decade or more behind rival Chinese programs, the first two of which brought fighters to flight prototype stages in December 2024, the possibility of the American aircraft entering service as late as the 2040s has increasingly been raised by analysts. These assessments have been based on the record of prior post-Cold War U.S.

ignoring the known knowns

It has long been a dirty little secret that we made a decision to “accept risk” in defending our bases from attack. That momentary bet became a habit…and then part of the environment.
The Army, especially during GWOT, didn’t just underfund air defense in general and treat it as a secondary career field—it never even considered what was needed to defend bases. The USAF? No better…and they relied on the Army for air defense. It was only 18 months or so ago they started to experiment with base defense.

About Face for the Afghanistan (& Iraq) Veteran

Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Asad “Genghis” Khan USMC’s book, Betrayal of Command, is the modern day About Face for the Post 9/11 Afghanistan (and Iraq) war veteran. Colonel David Hackworth US Army wrote About Face: The Odessey of an American Warrior in 1989 almost two decades after he walked away from a distinguished 30-year military career. Hackworth, one of the most decorated US soldiers of the post WWII era, wrote a brutally honest critique of US military leadership, bureaucratic ineptitude, and strategic failures in Vietnam.

During the Cold War, there weren’t a lot of things the U.S. military wasn’t willing to nuke in the name of science.
The Air Force once considered a nuclear-powered bomber that would drop nukes on the Soviet Union forever. NASA once tested the effects of a nuclear blast on beer. Before we sent men to the moon, we actually considered nuking it first.
Related: This is America’s latest nuclear bomb
The Atomic Age was essentially a kid with a new toy, the U.S. military just playing around to see what its new toys could do.

Four RAF Regiment gunners have made unit histor

The Army reduced the frequency of mandatory cybersecurity training to once every five years, according to a policy that went into effect late last month, axing an annual requirement and making individual commanders responsible for preparing their personnel for digital defense.
The move followed a Sept. 30 memo by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directing the military to reduce the time personnel spend on cybersecurity training, with the aim of “enabling our warfighters to focus on their core mission of fighting and winning our Nation’s wars without distraction.

The Army grounded two flight crews from the 101st Airborne who hovered over and buzzed past the home of singer Kid Rock on a weekend training flight, and has launched a formal investigation into the flight. But the singer told a local news station that he doubts the crews will get in much trouble.
“I think they’re going to be alright,” he told WKRN. “My buddy is the commander in chief,”
The singer is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, and has been a regular White House guest.

The USS Gerald R. Ford’s already long deployment will be “record-breaking” and “probably go into the 11th month of deployed operations,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said on Tuesday. 
“For those that are not in the Navy, that’s an extraordinary thing to even think about something of that kind of deployment length,” Caudle said while speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, D.C. “So my hat’s off to the Ford.

Iran’s weapons launches and arms cache continue to diminish as Operation Epic Fury enters its second month, according to Pentagon leaders who supplied updates on the large-scale military campaign that involves at least 50,000 U.S. troops so far.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said forces continue to focus on the fortification of installations, assets and personnel with a mix of air-and-missile defense capabilities, including electronic warfare options, amid this U.S.-led, Israel-coordinated operation against Iran.

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Naval power on display✈️
Exercise Neptune S

The Air Force has reactivated a squadron in Nevada that flies the MQ-9 Reaper, the unmanned, heavily armed drone that is entering its third decade of flying. 
The 42nd Attack Squadron at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, was the first unit in the Air Force to fly the Reaper, beginning in 2006, clocking over 180,000 combat hours over Afghanistan across 13 years before going “dormant” in 2020.
But with its reactivation, the 42nd ‘s drones will have a capability they previously did not.

It’s hard to discuss the inner workings of government that impacts virtually every federal employee without eventually confronting the systems agencies use to initiate, change, or document employee transactions. Whether it’s for Personnel Action Requests (PARs) at civilian agencies or similar HR requests at defense and intelligence agencies, the documentation these systems support are the connective tissue of the federal workforce. Every hire, promotion, reassignment, pay change, detail, and separation flows through this process.

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The Defense Department is moving forward with an autonomous drone swarm initiative that aims to give the U.S. military new tools for locating and destroying targets on the battlefield.
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office recently issued a solicitation for the Swarm Forge effort, which is one of the “pace-setting” projects that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for in a memo released in January outlining the department’s artificial intelligence strategy.

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Victory for the Royal Air Force in American Foo

Parts of the Middle East — especially around the Persian Gulf — rely on desalinated water. Worst-case scenarios for war in the region have often included attacks on desalination facilities, and the war with Iran that began on Feb. 28 has raised the potential for such a scenario. So far, there have been reports that a U.S. strike on Qeshm Island damaged an Iranian desalination plant and that an Iranian drone had hit a desalination plant in Bahrain. On March 30, an attack damaged a building at a power and desalination site in Kuwait.

New mission, same dedication🫡
A new British

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Ukraine is expanding the scale of its e-Points defence procurement system, adding bonuses for ‘innovative’ use of drones.

TRAX has received a seven-year, $726.9m contract from the US Army Test and Evaluation Command’s (ATEC) Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) for Mission Test Support Services.

Public data indicates that the UK is gradually increasing the number of its military uncrewed systems (UxS).

Imagine pulling the trigger on your rifle and having a computer decide whether the bullet actually leaves the barrel. Not a scope that helps you aim, nor a red dot that speeds up target acquisition. We are talking about a system that physically will not let the weapon fire until it has calculated, to the millisecond, that the round is going to hit what you want to go “poof.”
Also Read: Your standard rifle can now be an anti-drone weapon. Seriously.
That’s not a pitch deck from some startup on Shark Tank. It’s fielded hardware, on contract, bolted to M4s carried by U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that neither he nor President Donald Trump will rule out the option of using U.S. ground troops in military operations against Iran as soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division and additional Marines head to the Middle East.
“We’re not gonna foreclose any option” when it comes to achieving the objectives of the U.S. military’s campaign against Iran, Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday.

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Washington, D.C., Pentagon — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, held a press briefing at the Pentagon on March 31, 2026. This correspondent was in attendance.
Secretary of War Hegseth made a point of saying the President has all options available to him due to the deployment of forces into the region, including ground troops.
The President has vacillated on the future course of the war.

The Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has announced an agreement with Elbit Systems, valued at approximately NIS150m ($48m), for procuring tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells.

The decentralized leadership structure in the United States military is one of the best things we’ve got going for us. For the most part, a commander can pass their intent down to subordinate leaders and expect it to get done. This can only happen with cohesion between the officer and non-commissioned officer corps.
Also Read: The Guard’s ‘one weekend a month, two weeks a year’ slogan is outdated
Legally speaking, NCOs have to obey the orders of the Officers appointed over them. I mean, it’s literally in the Oath of Enlistment that enlisted service members take when they join.

CDR Salamander
To hell with your RCS. I want more weapons topside, now.

Stefano D’urso, The Aviationist
Misawa Air Base has received the U.S.

Vincent Carchidi, DefOne
It’s part of a much larger system—and the latest instance of tech that makes war run dangerously fast

Airforce Technology
The silo prototype will validate a modular approach to speed deployment and control costs