(Military Times) The United States has spent an estimated $29 billion in the war against Iran, the Pentagon said Tuesday, as senior defense officials appeared on Capitol Hill for back-to-back budget hearings. Read More |
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(Military Times) A waterway sign that reads “Open. Closed. Open.” A helicopter bearing the name “Kid Rock Force One.” Oil barrels that collectively spell out “LUBE.” Read More |
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(Military Times) The defense sector has donated nearly $5 million to members of Congress via political action committees and individual donations so far this year, according to a new report by NOTUS. Read More |
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(Federal News Network) The funding is also going toward preparing VA medical facilities for the rollout of a new Electronic Health Record system. Read More |
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(Military Times) Ukraine has linked its military drones, sensors and weapons systems into a unified battlefield network, an integration Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers Tuesday the U.S. military has yet to achieve. 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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(Military Times) A national missile defense system, or Golden Dome, proposed by the Trump administration would cost $1.2 trillion to build and maintain over the next 20 years, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in a cost-projection analysis released Tuesday. Read More |
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(Defense One) Lawmakers are preparing to make their edits to the Trump administration’s 2027 budget bill, but concerns are growing that the next round of funding won’t cover lost aircraft, damaged facilities, or expended munitions from the Iran war because the Defense Department has refused to provide details to Congress. Read More |
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(Nextgov) Proposed amendments to the fiscal year 2027 funding bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs include several measures seeking to limit the use of decisional or unapproved artificial intelligence tools by the agency. Read More |
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(DefenseScoop) Senior committee staff previewed newly proposed foreign military sales and financing reforms scheduled for markup this week. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) U.S. Green Berets and Navy SEALs are fanning out across Europe this month for large-scale drills designed to showcase how NATO special operators can maneuver undetected at great range. Read More |
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(Military Times) The U.S. Army is planning to rotate troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border this summer, with the 1st Armored Division assuming command of the Joint Task Force – Southern Border mission. Read More |
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(Military Times) In the age of drones and artificial intelligence, the Army is reinvigorating how it teaches troops to kill at arm’s length. Read More |
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(USNI News) The Marine Corps’ renowned reconnaissance training is being revamped to better prepare reconnaissance Marines and infantry scouts for the tech-driven, multi-domain fight on land and at sea. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) The Air Force and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems have successfully tested firing laser-guided Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System rockets from an MQ-9A Reaper drone. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) Guardian officers looking to advance their careers must master their job specialty but also have a strong all-around understanding of the service and the joint force, the Space Force detailed in a new officer career path document. Read More |
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(Military Times) The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it is prohibiting the use of kratom, an herbal stimulant, and related products effective immediately. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Storis, the first icebreaker to join the fleet in more than two decades, returned to its homeport on Monday from a 36-day deployment to the Arctic. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) They came to honor the dead, men they did not know but who were among the first American troops to die on overseas duty. Read More |
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(Military Times) A former NFL tight end was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for a yearslong fraud scheme that cost Medicare and the U.S. Veterans Affairs almost $200 million. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) Veterans reporting multiple toxic exposures from military service are more prone to suicidal thoughts and behaviors than veterans who did not report exposures, according to the findings from a new Department of Veterans Affairs study. Read More |
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(Defense News) America’s allies now outspend it in purchasing power-adjusted defense budgets, a new analysis by the Economist shows. Read More |
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(Defense News) NATO is setting up a marketplace where alliance members can shop for counter-drone systems — a pilot project within a broader push by the organization to speed up procurement and help countries adopt new technology more quickly. Read More |
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(Defense News) Aselsan used the Saha Expo 2026 defense exhibition here to present a vision of future warfare built around autonomous systems, layered air defense and integrated strike networks, as the Turkish defense-electronics giant seeks to expand its role as a domestic systems integrator and growing global exporter. Read More |
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(NPR) An ultra-Orthodox Jewish party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition has called for parliament to be dissolved, threatening to bring down the government. Read More |
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(The New York Times) Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) Five weeks after the United States and Iran agreed to a ceasefire, the conflict remains in a fragile standoff, with diplomacy sputtering, economic pressure building and neither side showing signs of backing down. Read More |
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(Reuters) Trump envoy Jeff Landry is scheduled to visit Greenland next week to attend a business conference in the vast Arctic island of ?57,000 people. Read More |
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(Defense News) Time to break out the big guns. Read More |
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(The Cipher Brief) President Trump will visit Beijing later this month for the first time in almost a decade. As a former CIA clinical psychologist, I have conducted many remote assessments of world leaders. I believe this summit presents both great opportunities, and great dangers. Not just because of the economic and political stakes, but because of the highly divergent personalities and styles of leadership of the two Presidents. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) A Polish tank moves into position to join NATO allies during an exercise in Adazi, Latvia, Nov. 13, 2023. European nations could achieve near autonomy for the continent’s defense at the cost of an additional $530 billion over the next 10 years according to a recent study published by the Kiel Institute. (H Howey/U.S. Army) Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) What happens when the Arctic starts to look like the South China Sea? Read More |
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(Foreign Affairs Magazine) Ever since the United States, alongside Israel, went to war against Iran in late February, U.S. President Donald Trump has struggled to define the objectives of the conflict. His emphasis has shifted from demands for regime change to degrading Iran’s military to securing safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Most frequently, he has seemed to emphasize a need to roll back Tehran’s nuclear program. It is an odd frame for a war that has barely touched Iranian nuclear capabilities, but a fitting one for a leader who withdrew from President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in 2018 and claimed a year ago to have “obliterated” Iran’s program. “The DEAL that we are making with Iran will be FAR BETTER than the JCPOA,” Trump boasted on Truth Social in late April. Read More |
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