(The Associated Press) An undetermined number of Americans, many with military backgrounds, are thought to be in Ukraine battling Russian forces. Read More
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(Military Times) Most of the military services are hoping to get smaller this year, as the Army, Navy and Air Force seek to slash thousands from their rolls. Read More
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(Military.com) Troops stationed at remote and overseas bases attempted suicide at slightly higher rates but were less often successful compared to the general active-duty military population, according to findings in a new Government Accountability Office report. Read More
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(Army Times) An unknown number of soldiers have had their lives upended by the long-term consequences of a massive investigation into claims of widespread fraud in the Guard Recruiting Assistance Program. Read More
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(Marine Corps Times) Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, officials confirmed to Marine Corps Times that a parent in one of the families is assigned to the 2nd Marine Division and a parent in the second family is assigned to the Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Read More
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(Military Times) We’ve compiled the latest information service members want to know about basic pay, VA loans, education, retirement, and more. Read More
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(Military Times) The new Military Times column on military family life. Read More
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(Military Times) A Florida National Guard unit that evacuated Ukraine in February has a new mission: continuing to train Ukrainian troops, this time outside of Ukraine. Read More
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(Al Arabiya) Two rockets targeting a base in western Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops on Saturday crashed near the complex without causing casualties or damage, security sources said. Read More
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(Defense News) At least five states are sending aging M113 armored personnel carriers to Europe to support the Pentagon’s race to send equipment to Ukraine. Read More
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(The Associated Press) The North Carolina National Guard will provide military equipment to Ukraine in its war with Russia, Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday. Read More
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(Al Jazeera) Some 100 civilians evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol were due to arrive in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia. In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Synehubov warned residents in the north and east of the city of Kharkiv to remain in their shelters due to heavy Russian shelling. Read More
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(The Associated Press) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of a U.S. congressional delegation met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. Read More
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(Military Times) U.S. Army veteran Chris Loverro is one of thousands of veterans who have traveled to Ukraine to assist. Read More
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(Reuters) Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries and destroyed a runway at a military airfield near the Ukrainian city of Odesa. Read More
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(Task & Purpose) It's not the first time pilots had to intercept Russian planes. Read More
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(Wall Street Journal) From Russian tanks to mass burial sites, commercial imaging spacecraft are shedding light on the Kremlin’s war on its neighbor. Read More
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(C4ISRNET) The leader of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said American networks have yet to experience significant cyberattacks by Russian operatives amid the ongoing belligerence in Ukraine. Read More
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(Reuters) U.S. President Joe Biden's administration plans to step up diplomatic engagement with Pacific Island countries, Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Monday, including inviting Pacific leaders to the White House later this year. Read More
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(Reuters) U.S. President Joe Biden had "constructive" talks with Mexican counterpart President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday, the White House said, as officials on both sides of the shared border fret about lapsing immigration restrictions. Read More
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(New York Times) An Army judge is hearing pretrial testimony to determine what evidence can be used at the eventual destroyer Cole death penalty trial. Read More
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(C4ISRNET) U.S. Army officials say it’s too early to take definitive lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though they are learning from the conflict. Read More
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(Navy Times) Cmdr. Jared Severson was relieved due to a loss of confidence following findings from a command investigation. Read More
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(Defense News) The service limited its spending request and long-term fleet development plans based on expected funding levels and industrial base capacity. It's leading to a fleet size "nobody likes," admits Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday. Read More
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(Military.com) The commanding officer of the USS George Washington told his crew Thursday that the Navy will begin to move sailors off of the aircraft carrier following a string of suicides and complaints from service members about conditions aboard the ship, whose projected departure from the shipyards has been pushed back once again. Read More
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(San Diego Union-Tribune) Defense attorneys indicated Thursday they plan to request a mistrial in the “Fat Leonard” Navy bribery scandal, capping a highly unusual three-day special evidentiary hearing held to determine if prosecutors improperly failed to disclose exculpatory evidence or knowingly advanced a false narrative during the first several weeks of trial. Read More
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(Marine Corps Times) Two alleged co-conspirators had been lance corporals at the time of the 20-year-old Marine’s death. Read More
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(Defense One) A failure to deploy in February illustrates the low readiness of the nation’s amphibious warships, a Marine three-star tells Defense One. Read More
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(Defense News) The first of the U.S. Air Force’s new fleet of trainer jets, Boeing’s T-7A Red Hawk, was unveiled to the public in a rollout ceremony Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri. Read More
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(Air Force Magazine) Four years after first announcing a program meant to help career Airmen have a chance to move to their preferred base in the U.S., the Air Force is suspending it starting June 1, citing budgetary constraints and a low rate of Airmen actually getting to where they wanted to go. Read More
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(Military.com) The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is getting its first permanent professor who is a member of the Space Force, as interest in the newest military service branch continues to grow among cadets. Read More
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(The Associated Press) For more than a decade, the Washington, D.C., National Guard contingent has been a semi-hidden presence — sheltered inside the D.C. Armory. Read More
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(Stars & Stripes) Gov. Greg Abbott approved nearly $500 million to fund the deployment of thousands of Texas National Guard troops to the state’s border with Mexico just days before the mission was set to run out of money. Read More
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(Army Times) Troops across the National Guard and reserve components of all military branches will see a standardized discharge form by 2025, according to a Defense Department instruction released earlier this month. Read More
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(Military Times) Transition from the military to civilian living is a major life change for service members and their families. Read More
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(Task & Purpose) By May 2007, about 80% of all the cargo that the U.S. military transported in war zones was fuel, Bryan Bender, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, revealed at the time. Read More
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(The Associated Press) First lady Jill Biden added a temporary installation in the East Wing of artwork from military children in honor of the Month of the Military Child. Read More
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Military Culture & History
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(Task & Purpose) Many service members know the National Guard logo depicting a minuteman from the Revolutionary War days. But not as many people know Capt. Isaac Davis, the Massachusetts gunsmith and militia officer who the logo is based on. Read More
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(Task & Purpose) “The Ghost of Kyiv is alive and embodies a collective image," a Ukrainian military spokesman said. Read More
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(Bloomberg) The head of Russia’s space program said Moscow will pull out of the International Space Station, state media reported, a move it has blamed on sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine. Read More
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(Defense News) Brazil is set to order four Saab-Embraer F-39E jets in addition to the 36 already purchased in 2014 under a $4.7 billion contract. The country is also considering ordering another batch of at least 30 F-39E fighters — the local designation of the JAS 39E Gripen NG. Read More
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(Defense News) The Air Force has denied negotiations are underway to procure the Golden Eagle variants, made by Korea Aerospace Industries. But local sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, said the Colombian government has acknowledged the Air Force’s preference for the South Korean aircraft and has insisted negotiations with KAI also involve Leonardo. Read More
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(Defense News) Naval Group Belgium inaugurated two new research-and-development laboratories in Brussels this week, focusing on novel mine countermeasures and cybersecurity, the company announced Thursday. Read More
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(Washington Post) For decades, the country has been a global hub for opium production, estimated to supply 80 percent of the world’s opiate users. Now its meth industry is growing at breakneck speed, stoking fears among Western experts and officials that, under the Taliban, Afghanistan could become a major supplier as demand rises globally. Read More
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(Reuters) Taiwan's Defence Ministry said on Monday it was considering alternative weapons options after the United States informed it that the delivery of an artillery system would be delayed due to a "crowded" production line. Read More
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(Al Jazeera) Graduating from the de-radicalization program does not make inmates automatically eligible for early release, but does increase their chances of getting a royal pardon or a reduced sentence. That has been the case for more than half of the 222 graduates so far, the prison administration says. Read More
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(Reuters) The decision to join will come in two steps on that day, with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto first announcing his approval for the Nordic neighbour of Russia to join the Western defence alliance, followed by parliamentary groups giving their approval for the application, the paper reported. Read More
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(New York Times) In the past six years, many young people in the Philippines have grown increasingly disenchanted with President Rodrigo Duterte’s leadership: both his brutal war on drugs and his approach to the pandemic. They have watched men and boys being gunned down in the streets and experienced the mental toll from a prolonged shutdown of schools, two years and running. Read More
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(Reuters) Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso on Friday declared a 60-day state of emergency, including curfews in some areas and the deployment of thousands of security forces, in three of the country's 24 provinces, citing a rise in crime. Read More
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(Reuters) Most were peaceful but violence broke out in the capital, where police arrested 54 people, including a woman who attacked a fireman trying to put out a fire, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Twitter. Eight police were injured, he added. Read More
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(Washington Post) Friday’s attack on a Sufi mosque that killed 10 and injured at least 30, seemed especially perverse, given the Sufi community’s history as a quiet force for peace. Read More
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(Reuters) Thousands of Africans take long, perilous journeys to Europe each year often traversing the Sahara desert and leaving the north African shores on small, inflatable boats fleeing hardship or seeking a better life. Last year, the UNHCR reported 3,077 people as dead or missing, nearly double the 2020 toll. Read More
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(Defense News) The sudden elevation in intensity of top-level talks between Finland and Sweden has raised the bar on the expectation that the two unaligned Nordic states will jointly announce their decisions to join NATO by May 16. Read More
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(Reuters) The "legitimate and reasonable concerns of all parties" need to be acknowledged for there to be a political settlement, Liu Xiaoming, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Korean Peninsula Affairs, told reporters at Seoul's airport late on Sunday. Read More
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(New York Times) “It’s changed times now,” said Brian Gow, 69, as he contemplated the growing odds that the Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, would win the most seats in parliamentary elections on Thursday, representing an extraordinary coming-of-age for a political party that many outside Ireland still associate with years of paramilitary violence. Read More
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(Reuters) The military junta in Guinea said its transition back to civilian rule will probably take more than three years, a proposal likely to upset West Africa's political bloc that has called for a swift return to constitutional order. Read More
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(Reuters) According to a document seen by Reuters, a high court on Tuesday reversed a decision dissolving Islamic Call Organization, an organizing and financing arm for the regime that has helped to finance Islamist groups including Hamas, members of the taskforce told Reuters last year. Read More
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(Aerospace Advantage) Host John "Slick" Baum is joined by Mitchell Institute Dean Lt Gen (Ret.) David Deptula and Director of Research of the Foreign Policy Research Institute Dr. Aaron Stein to discuss the US War against ISIS, Operation Inherent Resolve. Read More
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(Defense News) While the U.S. would like to prevent conflict from escalating to space, many of our adversaries do not share this goal. Read More
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(The New Yorker) The U.S. was initially cautious during the fall and winter as Russia, a nuclear country with veto power at the U.N. Security Council, amassed more than a hundred and fifty thousand troops along the Ukrainian border. Read More
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(Defense News) The betting money in Western defense circles is that Finland will soon ask to join NATO. With adequate preparation, done now, the alliance could add a capable new member while minimizing regional instability and possible conflict.
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(Air Force Magazine) Within days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. European Command stood up a 24/7 operations center to coordinate the rapid delivery of defense assistance from dozens of nations to the front line inside Ukraine. Read More
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