(The Associated Press) Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the Iran war via Pakistani mediators on Sunday, but U.S. President Donald Trump quickly rejected it in a social media post as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” — the latest setback to efforts to resolve the standoff in the Persian Gulf that has throttled shipping and sent energy prices soaring. Read More |
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(Military Times) American forces fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged unladen oil tankers on Friday after the ships attempted to cross a U.S. Navy blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. Read More |
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(CBS News) The Moroccan military recovered the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing on May 2, the U.S. Army said. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) A House Republican who retired from the Army and more than a dozen House Democrats who served in the military are seeking to place limits on the U.S. war against Iran through two newly introduced bills. Read More |
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(The Guardian) Ukraine president says Russian army is "not complying" with the US-mediated truce and is "not even really trying to." Read More |
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US Strikes in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific |
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(Military Times) Since early September 2025, the U.S. military has conducted strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean in support of what the Pentagon has called continued counternarcotics efforts. Read More |
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(The War Horse) An ongoing timeline of the Trump administration’s actions focusing on the military and veterans. Read More |
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(Defense News) The Department of Defense launched a team of elite private sector businessmen tasked with handling and approving defense contractor negotiations, aimed at fixing the former “broken Pentagon bureaucracy.” Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) The Pentagon plans to install laser and microwave weapon systems at five bases in the United States by year’s end, to defend the important installations from aerial drones. Read More |
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(Military Times) The Pentagon on Friday unsealed the first tranche of what it described as “new, never-before-seen” files related to otherworldly encounters, months after President Donald Trump directed the government to begin disclosing intelligence related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects. Read More |
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(CBS News) Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion budget request for defense spending is "outrageous." Read More |
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(The Hill) The reported terms of a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the Iran war spurred a swift backlash from allies of President Trump who have cheered on his fight against the Islamic Republic. Read More |
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(Military Times) Three soldiers with the Arkansas Army National Guard created tourniquets out of belts to save a fellow guardsman’s life after two heavy expanded mobility tactical trucks collided during training. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) Long before the USS Cleveland appeared on the horizon Saturday morning, the Solstice Steps at Lakewood Park were packed. Read More |
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(Defense News) The U.S. Marine Corps plans to phase out enlisted jobs tied to the F/A-18 Hornet as it transitions to an all-F-35 tactical aircraft fleet. Read More |
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(DefenseScoop) The Marine Corps is overhauling how it trains its reconnaissance troops as ubiquitous surveillance tools redefine modern conflict and service officials wrestle with difficult questions over sensor and robotic employment for new training. Read More |
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(Military Times) After time in storage and two years of “intensive” maintenance efforts, a B-1B Lancer is back in action, deemed combat capable. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) Six F-16 fighter pilots were presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross last week for their role in Operation Midnight Hammer, last year’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Read More |
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(Military Times) For Marines who have toiled over assembling airfields in austere environments, relief may be on the way. Read More |
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(Defense News) The Turkish Ministry of National Defense unveiled details about the Y?ld?r?mhan long-range ballistic missile during the SAHA Expo 2026 defense exhibition here this week. Read More |
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(Defense News) India is pressing ahead with a $9 billion infrastructure project to bolster its military footprint on the Great Nicobar Island which sits far from the Indian mainland near one of the world’s most critical shipping arteries. Read More |
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(Defense News) She had walked for hours through the Lyman grey zone, past shell craters and the bodies of neighbors who hadn’t made it out, when the robot caught up to her. The 77-year-old saw it first as a blanket, then as the three words painted across it in an operator’s hand: “Grandma, get on!” Read More |
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(Reuters) The head of Iran's armed forces unified command met Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and received from him "new guiding measures to pursue military operations and firmly confront adversaries", the semi-official Fars news reported on Sunday. Read More |
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(Reuters) Kuwait’s army said ?it had detected and dealt with several hostile drones ?in the country’s airspace ?at dawn on Sunday, the ?latest incident following similar ?cross?border drone activity linked to ?the Iran conflict. Read More |
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(Bloomberg) South Korea said a fire aboard a Korean-operated cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz was caused by external strikes, the first official acknowledgment by Seoul that the incident was the result of an attack, though it stopped short of assigning blame. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) German officials this week said they are looking for ways to address the strategic and economic ramifications of a planned U.S. troop reduction that could upend small garrison towns where Americans have been a mainstay. Read More |
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(The Guardian) Minister defends preparedness against novel threat after officials detonate device suspected to be from Ukraine. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) Airman 1st Class Rickey Newton’s muscles began to shake at the four-minute mark of his forearm plank exercise during the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA, on May 5. He had already held the position 30 seconds past the 3:30 he needed for the maximum score, but his fellow Airmen cheered for him to continue. Read More |
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(The Guardian) Simply hanging on could be a disaster for Iranians, while Trump needs to resolve this economic crisis he created Read More |
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(The Cipher Brief) I recently had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion on geopolitical issues at the Kyiv Security Forum in Kyiv. One of the key issues covered by the panel was the status of Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine and continued Western support for Ukraine. This is a topic I have addressed publicly many times since retiring from the CIA during public and private speaking engagements, podcasts, and various news shows. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) The drones hitting Gulf Arab states daily since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran in February are not merely Iranian. They are originally Iranian, yes. But these designs and production processes were improved and refined by Russia through years of battlefield testing against Ukrainian defenses. Read More |
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(The Wall Street Journal) New forms of war have developed since 1986, when Congress enacted the last major reform. The American military’s global pre-eminence over the past quarter-century can be traced to two seminal failures. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) On the eve of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, 56 tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Lloyd’s List, the maritime industry’s journal of record, counted just seven tankers and a single gas carrier — all small and three of them shadow-fleet vessels — with hundreds more drifting in the Gulf of Oman. Read More |
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