(Military Times) Jets and helicopters assigned to the world’s largest aircraft carrier finally returned to the U.S. on Monday after a historically long deployment. Read More |
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(Military Times) The remains of the second U.S. Army soldier who was reported missing in Southern Morocco last week have been recovered, the Army said in a statement Wednesday. Read More |
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(Defense News) The U.S. Army has canceled the deployment of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division — more than 4,000 soldiers and associated equipment — to Poland. Read More |
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(Defense News) Though they once occupied the fringes of operational conversation, one of the U.S. Army’s most in-demand — and increasingly popular — jobs is now that of the Indo-Pacific air defender. Read More |
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(Military Times) Energy Secretary Chris Wright warned on Wednesday that Iran is “frighteningly close” to obtaining a nuclear weapon, nearly three months after the United States launched a war to irrevocably halt the Islamic Republic from crossing that ominous Rubicon. 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) The Pentagon is set to announce on Wednesday framework agreements that position it to potentially acquire over 10,000 low-cost, containerized missiles over three years starting in 2027. Read More |
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(CBS News) The Senate rejected another attempt by Democrats to limit President Trump's ability to use military force against Iran, but one new Republican senator voted in favor of advancing the measure. Read More |
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(The Associated Press) Senate Republicans on Wednesday again blocked Democratic legislation that would halt President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, but the number of GOP senators voting against the war grew. Read More |
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(Military Times) U.S. special operations leaders expressed frustration Tuesday about manufacturers’ proprietary agreements that block them from making quick upgrades to military equipment. Read More |
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(Military Times) U.S. Army leaders assembled in Hawaii this week emphasized the importance of a multi-pronged effort, from the foxhole to the factory, necessary to deter near-peer adversaries across the vast Indo-Pacific. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The 1st Armored Division Headquarters at Fort Bliss will assume command of Joint Task Force-Southern Border at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., this spring, the command announced. Read More |
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(Defense News) The U.S. Navy needs an infusion of cash in the next two months to prevent interruptions in how it conducts military training and other operations, the service’s highest ranking officer told lawmakers on Tuesday. Read More |
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(Military Times) The Marine Corps will require all Marines — active duty, reserve, officer and enlisted — to complete a basic artificial intelligence course by the end of the year, according to a Friday Marine Administrative Message. Read More |
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(Defense News) The head of Air Force Special Operations Command revealed that an AI-powered intelligence collection and transfer system has been in use since the “first day” of Operation Epic Fury to help large attack drones and manned aircraft avoid Iranian threats. Read More |
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(Military Times) The U.S. Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper fleet has fallen to roughly 135 aircraft as combat attrition from Operation Epic Fury cuts into the service’s most heavily used remotely piloted asset, the deputy chief of staff for plans and programs told senators Tuesday. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) A U.S. Air Force T-38 training jet crashed in Alabama on May 12, after its two pilots safely ejected. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) The investigation reveals new details about Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, dating back to his years working for the National Security Agency. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) U.S. Space Command is working with close allies to define a joint plan for how to protect and defend space assets from threats in orbit, according to Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting. Read More |
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(Military Times) U.S. shipbuilder Davie Defense Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has finalized its contract with the U.S. Coast Guard to build and deliver five Arctic Security Cutters. Read More |
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(Defense News) Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are readying to spend around $14 billion from the European Union’s Security Action for Europe low-cost loans on new weapons, equipment and ammunition, with first contracts to be signed in the coming weeks. Read More |
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Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Syria |
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(Reuters) Israel has escalated its attacks in Gaza in the five ?weeks since halting its joint bombing with the U.S. in Iran, redirecting its fire back on the ruined Palestinian enclave where the military ?believes Hamas fighters are tightening their grip. Read More |
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(The Associated Press) Israeli airstrikes Wednesday struck seven vehicles in Lebanon — three of them on the main highway just south of Beirut — killing 12 people including a woman and her two children, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. Read More |
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(The Associated Press) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly visited the United Arab Emirates during the Israeli-US war with Iran, further strengthening ties with a Gulf nation that normalized relations with Israel in 2020, his office said Wednesday. Read More |
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(The Associated Press) Russia fired at least 800 drones in a massive daytime barrage on about 20 regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, including children, in one of the longest attacks by Moscow in the 4-year-old war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Read More |
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(Military Times) Austrian Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets scrambled two days in a row to intercept U.S. military aircraft, the government said. Read More |
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(The New York Times) As President Trump threatens to act against Cuba, experts are debating whether the flights, which the United States is not taking pains to hide, are just intimidation or foreshadow military force. Read More |
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(Bloomberg) U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his military threats against Iran ahead of a visit to China, the Islamic Republic’s largest oil customer and a key diplomatic partner. Read More |
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(USNI News) The U.K. has pledged a force package that includes a destroyer, Typhoon fighter aircraft, autonomous mine hunting systems and unmanned surface vessels to secure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. and Iran agree to a “sustainable” ceasefire agreement, the U.K. Ministry of Defense announced. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) An old adage claims a marine’s career came down to the “two or three minutes of a promotions brief.” Turns out that was a little optimistic. In practice, the Marine Corps promotion system decides the institutional worth of a 20?year career in about 12 minutes of board attention. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) In May 2025, as Indian BrahMos missile strikes hit Pakistani air bases — targeting runways, parked aircraft, and critical infrastructure — Islamabad faced a choice. It had the capability to respond with its own long-range systems, but it chose not to. Pakistan deliberately withheld the Babur cruise missile, not because it lacked options, but because using a dual-capable system risked signaling nuclear escalation. That moment captures the changing logic of conflict in South Asia. Read More |
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(USNI News) Emergency medical technicians rolled a combative 43-year-old woman on a gurney through the brown double doors of the trauma bay at WakeMed-Raleigh Campus. A tourniquet dug into the skin on her left arm as she howled in pain and begged medical staff to stop treating her. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) On May 4, 2026, a South Korean vessel came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, leading President Donald Trump to urge the government in Seoul to join the U.S.-led operation to secure the waterway. The South Korean government politely replied it would “review” the American proposal. The event crystallized a major paradox of the ongoing conflict: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the worst maritime crisis in decades, is fundamentally an Asian problem, yet Asia is almost entirely absent from the debate over how to resolve it. Read More |
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