Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK have announced the possible establishment of a new mechanism for defence procurement by 2027.

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The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing.
Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft called the Gremlin Special took off from Sentani Airport near Wamena, New Guinea (in what is now Indonesia) on May 13, 1945. The group, including eight Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers, was to receive a bird’s-eye view of the Baliem Valley, which local pilots had nicknamed Shangri-La Valley after the kingdom in James Hilton’s novel, “Lost Kingdom.

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Rebuilding the Backbone: Why America Must Urgently Revitalize Its Maritime Prepositioning Force

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At the center of the effort is the AN/ALQ-221, an integrated self-protection and electronic warfare suite combining radar warning functions with electronic…

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Weapons system technology continues to develop at a rapid pace, and the U.S.

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The Air Force’s sixth-generation F-47 and the Navy’s F/A-XX…

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In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among practitioners. Even with improved tools, increased tempo, and unprecedented access to data, plans continue to falter on integration, coherence, and a shared sense of direction. Marco Lyons’ recent War on the Rocks article on the perceived decline of operational art gives voice to this unease in a way that is both timely and important.We do not know enough about the specific wargame, its constraints, or its internal dynamics to adjudicate these conclusions directly.

When leaders fire their top generals, they may be clearing the path to war or quietly sabotaging their own military.On Jan. 24, 2026, China’s defense ministry announced that the nation’s highest-ranking general, Zhang Youxia, a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, was under investigation for unspecified violations of laws and political discipline. Since 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping has removed five of the six generals serving on the Central Military Commission, including Zhang. In less than three years, dozens of other senior military officials have also been removed.

Why would the West underwrite the very system it has spent four years trying to contain? Yet that’s exactly what Russia has proposed, and what some leaders in Washington might be willing to entertain.In February 2026, Russia proposed an economic reintegration plan (the “Dmitriev package”) that it claims would be worth $14 trillion. The package includes sanctions relief, aeronautics contracts and restoration of access to dollar-based financial systems for Russia, preferential treatment for Western firms in the Russian market, and joint ventures in energy and mining.

The U.S. long-range, high-altitude (HALE) unmanned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, unofficially known as the RQ-180, is reported to have made an emergency landing at Larissa National Airport in Greece during operations against Iran. “Those who were in the area near the 110th Fighter Wing [110th Combat Wing] in Larissa at the end of last week were left speechless when they saw an impressive plane in the sky, completely different in shape and appearance from everything we see daily in politics and the military air force,” according to a local source.

In August 1988, with his country bled white by eight years of war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a million dead, the economy in ruins, the revolutionary generation exhausted, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a U.N. ceasefire. He called it “more deadly than taking poison.” He was drinking from the bitter chalice of defeat.And then what happened? The Islamic Republic survived. It did not moderate, liberalize, or reckon with its failures.

The first flight of the enhanced Tejas Mk2 fighter developed or the Indian Air Force been delayed by two years, following a long and consistent history of serious delays which have seriously undermined the Tejas program throughout its development. Local media have reported that although the Indian Defence Council approved the program at the end of 2022, the actual allocation of funding and the finalisation of international cooperation were later postponed until to the end of 2023.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have deployed MiG-31I heavyweight strike aircraft armed with Kinzhal ballistic missiles for a training exercise over the Sea of Japan, during which pilots tested their in-flight refuelling capabilities. Russian sources gave significant publicity to the aircraft’s mission profile and the extended reach provided by aerial refuelling, allowing the aircraft to loiter in a strategically critical maritime corridor linking Japan and the Korean Peninsula to the wider Pacific.

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Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.

Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranians are having fun playing drone sounds loudly causing police to flee the scene.
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Less-expensive, one-way attack drones are proving to be a meaningful weapon in U.S. forces’ arsenal as they hustle to overwhelm Iranian defenses in Operation Epic Fury. 
But, according to the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, the joint force’s current inventory of LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) drones is relatively scarce.
“They were not in full-rate production. So, we shipped what we had. And you saw with some shipments we were able to get out there, [commander of U.S. Central Command Adm.

Special Operations forces are the world’s most highly disciplined, mission-capable, and formidable units.
They undergo rigorous selection processes and training to conduct unconventional warfare tasks that exceed the capabilities of standard military forces. The truth is, the world may never know exactly what these teams have accomplished, but their public records contain enough to earn global respect.
Related: The third Delta Force sniper you didn’t see in ‘Black Hawk Down’In no particular order, these are 10 lethal special operations units from around the world
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As the United States continues to face Iranian

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Can you tell the difference between real and AI

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, who was killed in a March 1 drone attack in Kuwait, was a ‘surrogate dad’ to so many in his Iowa-based reserve unit that some are now raising money to help dozens of his soldiers determined to attend his funeral in California later this month.
One of the organizers is Connor Kuehl, who said he was aimless when he enlisted in the Army in 2013 and met Marzan. Kuehl’s father wasn’t at home at the time, he said, and the senior soldier became the father figure who had been missing in his life.

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President Trump says he wants Nato members to s

At Armed Forces Press, we just ran a feature last month aiming to raise awareness about the historically buried and shocking British royal / Nazi duke trip across the US in Spring 1940, with hundreds of American elites visiting him at events, while the US was still neutral in WWII. That article links to a documentation webpage with seized and declassified US and Nazi German intelligence.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has chosen the Cata launcher from Threod Systems for the British Army’s one-way effector (OWE) capability.

Norway could be seeing to acquire additional anti-tank mines, having earlier determined to obtain the German-origin DM22 munition.

The Defense Department’s ambitious homeland missile defense architecture known as Golden Dome is now expected to cost around $185 billion to account for additional space-based systems, according to the project’s director.
The Office of Golden Dome for America has been approved to spend an additional $10 billion in order to procure space capabilities needed for the architecture, Golden Dome director Gen. Michael Guetlein said Tuesday during the McAleese Defense Programs conference.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims forces have prevented an anticipated Russian offensive in the Donbas region.

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From March 5 to 12, China held its annual Two Sessions — the National People’s Congress meeting and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. These gatherings provide yearly insights into China’s economic and political priorities and plans. Additionally, this year, the government presented its 15th Five-Year Plan, laying out key policies to 2030. We asked four experts to offer their key takeaways from the National People’s Congress.Read more below. Ling ChenWilliam L.

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Palantir’s Shyam Sankar continues to offer some of the clearest and most precise ideas on how we need to shift our mindset if we want to set the foundation for the next big war.
I’m not going to ask too much of your time today. Nope, just a bit over a minute to ponder Shyam’s four Sputnik moments.
The 1 minute and 19 seconds is an incredibly powerful boil-down of what should drive a lot of our thinking. Really, we should already be well down the road in acting on it.

History’s worst tyrants didn’t just rule; they engineered nightmares.
From Qin Shi Huang’s iron-fisted unification and Julius Caesar’s precedent-setting power grab to Attila’s scorched-earth raids and Genghis Khan’s empire built on terror, these figures bent whole civilizations to their will. They stacked skulls into monuments, turned cruelty into policy, and burned heretics to make a point.
Related: German intelligence was working against Adolf Hitler for all of World War II
The 20th century only served to industrialize the horror.

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Elbit Systems of America (Elbit America) has secured a contract to deliver Head-Up Displays (HUDs) for the Army’s Air Soldier System.

At least 200 U.S. service members have been wounded while taking part in Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command announced on Monday.
A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command confirmed Monday that at least 200 U.S. troops had been wounded in the nearly three weeks of fighting. Injuries were reported among troops based in the Middle East. According to Central Command officials, the overwhelming majority of wounded have returned to duty, roughly 180.

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Actor Blair Underwood was in first grade the first time that he remembers his mother saying she wanted to write a book.
It could have been a fleeting memory, a random thought spoken by a military spouse juggling so many tasks. Underwood (“L.A. Law,” “Rules of Engagement”) never forgot it, though, mainly because Marilyn Ann Scales Underwood kept repeating it over the years.
Related: These military spouses were unsung heroes of American history
Marilyn’s husband, Frank Sr., spent 28 years in the United States Army and retired as a colonel.

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The United States Navy confirmed plans to increase production of the Hammerhead anti-submarine mine system

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The United States is fast-tracking the deployment of directed energy weapons, including lasers and high-powered microwaves, to counter drone threats

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The ARMD reached supersonic speeds using Ursa Major’s flight-ready Draper liquid rocket engine, developed in just eight months for scalable missile propulsion.

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The Navy does not lack commitment, courage, or talent. It lacks time. That is especially true when it comes to material readiness.
Ships’ material condition suffer because of deferred maintenance. Scheduled maintenance windows stretch longer than planned. Critical decisions are made with incomplete or outdated data. None of this is due to a lack of effort by our dedicated Sailors or shipyard workers. It’s the result of 20th-century processes colliding with 21st-century demands.
As Command Master Chief at NAVSEA, I saw firsthand how maintenance delays ripple across the fleet.