(Military Times) The Trump administration is considering a military escalation to break the diplomatic impasse with Iran, despite having formally notified Congress that Operation Epic Fury has been terminated. Read More |
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(Defense News) The Pentagon awarded Perennial Autonomy, a California-based startup making headlines for its counter-drone technology, a $500 million contract to accelerate its procurement of the defensive systems. Read More |
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(Military Times) Europe should “absolutely” expect additional United States troop withdrawals in the future as European NATO allies strengthen their capability to provide more of their own conventional defense, according to the U.S. general who is the alliance’s top military commander for the region. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The House passed a $480 billion spending package for fiscal 2027 that will fund the Department of Veterans Affairs plus major infrastructure projects supporting military families. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The Pentagon’s internal watchdog has announced it will launch an investigation into the whether the U.S. strikes against drug boats in the Caribbean have followed targeting guidelines. 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) President Donald Trump on Tuesday revealed previously undisclosed details about his new bunker-like White House ballroom, saying it would have a drone base on the roof and a military hospital as part of a six-story subterranean complex. Read More |
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(Military Times) Navy officials told senators in Washington on Tuesday that reports about plumbing issues aboard the world’s largest aircraft carrier were embellished and not entirely true. Read More |
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(Defense News) During the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing today, Acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, announced that the MQ-25A Stingray is now moving into the low-rate initial production and deployment phase. Read More |
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(Military Times) For the past 10 days, naval aviators across six squadrons attached to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and carried out the time-honored tradition of field carrier landing practice — on Iwo Jima. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) The Air Force has drastically reduced the number of eligible career fields for Active-Duty Airmen seeking reenlistment bonuses in 2026, cutting several maintenance, medical, and other career specialties. Read More |
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(Military Times) After a T-38 Talon training flight mishap last week caused two pilots to safely eject and the aircraft to crash, the U.S. Air Force is implementing a fleetwide operational pause for all T-38 Talon aircraft. Read More |
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(Military Times) Air Force Special Operations Command is testing whether it can take its new Skyraider II apart, pack it inside a cargo jet and put it back together in the field, officials said this week at Special Operations Forces Week. Read More |
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(Defense News) The Pentagon awarded Perennial Autonomy, a California-based startup making headlines for its counter-drone technology, a $500 million contract to accelerate its procurement of the defensive systems. Read More |
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(Military Times) More than three-fourths of 112 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers earned four- or five-star ratings from the federal government for quality, according to new data released Monday. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) The types of massive troop deployments of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are becoming dangerous as attack drones become a ubiquitous presence on battlefields, the head of U.S. Southern Command said on Tuesday. Read More |
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(Defense One) A single remote-controlled Ukrainian ground combat vehicle defended a “key intersection under constant adversary attack” for 45 days last summer, according to a 3rd Army Corps spokesperson who called it “Ukraine’s first fully robotic defensive operation of a position.” It likely won’t be the last. Read More |
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(Defense News) Sweden has picked France’s Naval Group to supply four of its FDI frigates in a deal that could be worth more than 40 billion Swedish kroner, or around US$4.2 billion, with the French offer beating proposals from Spain’s Navantia and the United Kingdom’s Babcock International. Read More |
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Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Syria |
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(The Guardian) Single strike on the village of Deir Qanoun al Nahr in the coastal Tyre province killed 10, including three children and three women, health ministry says Read More |
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(CBS News) A recent American intelligence assessment showed that U.S. forces have identified at least 10 mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. The officials spoke with CBS News anonymously in order to discuss sensitive national security matters. Read More |
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(Military Times) The Trump administration is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities that the U.S. would have available to assist the alliance’s European nations in a major crisis, three sources familiar with the matter said. Read More |
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(Military Times) Polish government leaders are concerned over the Pentagon’s abrupt cancellation of a deployment of more than 4,000 soldiers to NATO’s eastern flank, citing Warsaw’s status as a multibillion-dollar U.S. weapons client in their appeal to retain American soldiers. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The U.S. and South Korea have agreed to deeper cooperation on drone and counter-drone systems, launching what Seoul described as a new “drone alliance” between the two countries. Read More |
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(Defense News) A NATO air policing jet has shot down what authorities suspect was a Ukrainian drone flying over Estonia, a first after several similar airspace incursions in the Baltic states. Read More |
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(Defense News) Watch a drone pull a water skier at SOF Week 2026. Read More |
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(Defense News) Check out the Hammerhead SMV, a sub-surface multi-mission vehicle, from Patriot3. Read More |
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(Defense News) The future of war-fighting is lighter than air. Read More |
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(Defense News) High capacity dance moves at SOF Week. Read More |
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(Defense One) Days after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denied American forces the use of the Naval Station Rota and the Morón Air Base – installations that had hosted U.S. troops for more than 70 years. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) When the U.S. military launched its war against Iran in Feb. 2026, it did not just dismantle Iranian military capabilities. It shattered the illusion that the United States would consult with its closest allies and that an ally’s refusal to grant base access can stop an American war in motion. Read More |
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(Defense One) A year after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Army to take on a long list of tasks—including jettisoning unwanted vehicles and aircraft and re-focusing on unmanned systems—the Army Transformation Initiative is on uncertain ground. Read More |
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(The Cipher Brief) The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is barely holding. Pakistani mediators are still shuttling between capitals, fighting has flared in recent days, and President Trump is now sitting across from Xi Jinping in Beijing for a high-stakes summit covering trade, Iran, and Taiwan. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) Since its proclamation of independence from Somalia in May 1991, Somaliland has sought international recognition for the territories under its control. Despite functioning as a de facto independent state for years, it lacked any formal recognition on the international stage until recently, when Israel became the first state to officially recognize Somaliland as an independent state. Read More |
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