The Army on Tuesday announced the official launch of a new online marketplace for the procurement of drones, as the service moves to boost its unmanned systems arsenal and the U.S. industrial base.
The Army collaborated with Amazon Web Services in developing the digital storefront, according to a press release.
AWS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Marketplace includes tools that “allow users to compare system functionalities, provide direct feedback, and place orders with ease,” officials wrote in the release.

All soldiers will now need approval from their supervisors before they can receive financial assistance under the Army’s Tuition Assistance program, which helps soldiers pay for taking higher education classes. 
The new requirement for the program was one of several recent policy changes to the service’s regulation for the Army Continuing Education System, which oversees educational programs and services.

Federal agencies are being asked to do something deceptively complex: modernize their workforce and day-to-day business operations while remaining compliant, secure, and fiscally responsible.
Technology is often at the center of that conversation, but modernization is about more than swapping old systems for newer ones. It’s about choosing an architecture that can adapt over time—and continuously—to changing missions, policies, and workforce realities.
That’s where configuration outperforms customization in both the near term and the long term.

“If it is operated within those standards and w

In a Defence Committee session, UK defence industry experts urged the Government to “ring fence” certain sovereign defence programmes.

The number of U.S. military personnel wounded in Operation Epic Fury continues to rise as the campaign against Iran approaches its fourth week.
As of Tuesday, 290 American service members have been wounded in the war, according to Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, U.S. Central Command’s spokesperson.
Hawkins told DefenseScoop that 255 of those injured troops — or about 88% — have returned to duty so far, while 10 remain seriously wounded.
Around two weeks ago, in mid-March, Centcom reported that at that time approximately 200 U.S.

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Amid speculation that President Trump could seek to force open the Strait of Hormuz by some kind of ultra high risk Kharg Island takeover operation, Fox chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has posted the following:

Fox News has learned that the Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division Maj Gen Brandon Tegtmeier and his “command element,” members of his headquarters staff, have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East as the Pentagon and White House weigh whether to send the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East for possible land operations.

The nuclear non-proliferation regime is a global framework of norms, practices, and diplomatic agreements — underpinned by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The regime has had both failures and successes over the decades. Perhaps the biggest challenge in recent years came from Iran. The country’s nuclear activities raised international concern, prompting diplomatic, economic, and covert efforts to constrain it.

Did you know a remote Yorkshire hillside is hel

Work is well underway on the US Navy’s ne

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

RUTHLESS — No Mercy. No Weakness.

The US Army has placed an order worth over $52m with US drone manufacturer Skydio to supply more than 2,500 X10D small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS).

The Main ARmoured Tank of Europe (MARTE) consortium has reached a “midterm milestone” in the development of Europe’s future main battle tank (MBT), following formal approval of key deliverables by the European Commission.

As an educator, historian, and someone who is airborne qualified with five completed parachute jumps, the history of airborne operations has always been deeply meaningful to me.
Over the years, I have had the privilege of speaking with many airborne veterans whose firsthand stories helped shape how I teach military history. Their experiences bring history out of the textbook and into real life.
Related: How 3 paratroopers earned the Medal of Honor in Korea
That connection to airborne service now runs even deeper in my family.

The VA’s list of presumptive conditions for Agent Orange exposure is a fairly long one, but many Vietnam War veterans will tell you it’s far from complete, even after the PACT Act added more. It includes many types of cancers, from lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and Hodgkin’s to non-cancerous conditions like Parkinson’s Disease.

Friend and foe alike will have no problem recognizing the Navy’s newest destroyer when it flies its distinctive battle flag, which features the visage of a growling grizzly bear.
The warship is named for retired Marine Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr., who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War. Its battle flag both reflects the crew’s identity and pays tribute to the ship’s namesake, said Lt. Cmdr. Mary Sanford, a Navy spokesperson.
“The crew of the USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. refer to themselves as ‘Grizzlies,’” Sanford told Task & Purpose on Monday.

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Aerovironment’s $17.58 million Red Dragon award gives the U.S.

John Cofrancesco, RCDefense
If there was any lingering debate about the value of the F-35, the past round of operations against Iran should put it to rest.

K. Osborn, Warrior M.

Trevithick & Altman, WarZone
We’ve gotten our best look yet at new stealthy underwing tanks and sensor pods for the F-22, and the B-52’s new AGM-181 nuclear cruise missile.

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A video shared by Iranian state media on 19 March purports to show a US-operated Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter being struck by an unspecified Iranian air defence weapon.

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This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Eric Chewning, the executive vice president of maritime systems and corporate strategy at HII. As HII is America’s largest and one of its oldest military shipbuilders, we asked him to share his thoughts on maritime startups, reindustrialization policy, and more.Shipbuilding has been slow to adopt AI and other automated tools in comparison to other manufacturing industries.

Beneath the surface of Polish-German alignment within NATO lies an unresolved problem with growing strategic weight: Almost 70 percent of the Polish public believes that Germany has not made amends for the destruction it wrought on Poland during World War II. As a U.S.-Chinese great power rivalry intensifies, American engagement in Europe becomes less assured, and Berlin aspires to lead on European security, this unfinished ledger is no longer a purely historical or legal matter. It increasingly conditions how German leadership is perceived in Warsaw and across the region.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has launched its first-ever fighter exercise from Japan’s Misawa Air Base, and on March 23 deployed F-35A fifth generation fighters from the facility to train with U.S. and Japanese forces air units, including the two countries’ own F-35s. Plans for the Netherlands’ first F-35 deployments to the Western Pacific region were first announced in December 2025, with the country’s ambassador to Japan, Gilles Beschoor Plug, elaborating on the rationales for an expanded presence.

L Todd Wood and Commander Salamander delve into the possibilities of a Naval engagement on Kharg Island.
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The F-35 fifth generation fighter program achieved no new combat capabilities during fiscal year 2025, due largely to software problems which delayed operational testing across both Technology Refresh 2 (TR-2) and Technology Refresh 3 (TR-3) aircraft configurations.

For Marine Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Veenhuizen and his dozen-man explosive ordnance disposal team, a day on Kodiak Island means prep dives into cold Alaskan waters — a far cry from the warmer kiss of San Diego waves they call home — and the launch of little robots to scour the surf for “anomalies.”
The Alaska exercise that he and his team participated in this month, known as Arctic Edge 2026, was the Marine Corps’ first time directly supporting subsea and seabed warfare under the tri-service maritime strategy, a service spokesperson said.

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A steady flow of headlines continue to point in the direction of escalation in Iran and around the Persian Gulf, even as President Trump has touted backchannel dialogue with Tehran, which Iranian leaders have denied.
The NY Times writes Monday afternoon, “Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division’s headquarters staff to support U.S. military operations in Iran, defense officials said.

D-Day veteran John Dennett has died at the age

Operation Epic Fury is stress-testing the U.S. military’s medical evacuation system at a time when lawmakers say it is already ill-prepared for future scenarios involving multi‑theater wars.
Beyond moving forces and cargo worldwide for all combatant commands and defense agencies during peace and wartime, U.S. Transportation Command is also responsible for quickly transferring sick and injured troops to medical facilities for specialized treatments and recovery, at the request of other combatant commands.
Transcom commander Gen.

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Ukrainian forces have been receiving training a

Exercise Pegasus Exchange 26 saw UK and French

“Hurry up and wait.”
We’ve all heard this phrase at one point or another, but at this exact moment in time, it really (and literally) hits home. A partial government shutdown is currently affecting thousands of U.S. Coast Guard service members and their families. 
In February 2026, Congress and the president failed to meet a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid concerns that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers needed to be reined in after fatally shooting two American citizens in Minneapolis.

The Army recently awarded a contract to AeroVironment for the company’s new long-range, one-way attack drone called Red Dragon, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The deal, valued at more than $17 million, was awarded March 12 with an estimated completion date of April 8. It includes funding for unmanned aerial systems, battery chargers, ground control stations, launchers, critical part kit materials, training materials, and field service representative support, per the announcement.

The iconic football rivalry returns and its LIV

The US Army has taken delivery of the first H-60Mx Black Hawk helicopter, which features modifications allowing operation with or without a pilot at the controls.

Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, during which 5,931 Marines were killed — twice as many as all the Marines who died during World War I — including Medal of Honor recipient Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone. 
So it is somewhat surprising that a prominent lawmaker would reference Iwo Jima while arguing in favor of a U.S. military operation to capture Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf as part of ongoing operations against Iran. Yet that’s precisely what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) did over the weekend when he said on Fox News Sunday, “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this.

Personnel from The Band of The Brigade of Gurkh

For most of the last century, if something hostile was flying at your face, options boiled down to this: hope somebody around has a big gun. A Stinger team. A Patriot battery. An F-16 somewhere overhead doing F-16 things. The grunt on the ground pointed their tiny weapon up, got that potential threat in their sights, and proudly said out loud, “pew, pew.”
Also Read: The grunt’s 250-year quest for a weapon that actually works
Drones have officially broken that arrangement.

With Iranian Shaheds still posing a significant

The British Army has started retiring its Land Rover vehicles after seven decades of operational use, initiating plans to identify a next generation of light mobility vehicles (LMV).

Members of the National Guard and Coast Guard are carrying out extensive search and rescue efforts in Hawaii, as the state is hit by the largest and worst flooding in two decades.
Roughly 200 Hawaii National Guard members are taking part in storm response missions after Gov. Josh Green activated troops in the wake of the storm. The mobilized force includes members of the Hawaii National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package. Military and first responders rescued more than 200 people since Friday.

The 2026 Inter Services takes place at HMS Nels

As Bob Feller drove to sign his contract with the Cleveland Indians for the 1942 season, he distracted himself by listening to his car radio.
Already an accomplished Major League Baseball pitcher, Feller was 23 years old and entering the prime of his athletic career. As he traveled through the Midwest, a news alert announcing the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor interrupted regular programming.
Related: What John Glenn did to save his famous wingman’s life in Korea
Feller, the only pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter on MLB’s Opening Day, never signed that contract.

The men’s title race will be decided at Fratt

Karen McKay, RealClearDefense
When Richard Nixon ended the draft in January 1973, America lost something vital to its soul.

Thomas, Naval Tech.
The Navy’s Columbia-class SSBNs will be central to the U.S. nuclear deterrent once in service.