Common Defense -

Inside the Afghanistan War Soul Searching Behind Navy Expeditionary Command’s Renaming

Mission Reset

Word Salad

Army Serves Up a Whopping New Job Title for Its Cooks

Hiring Boom

October Hiring Blowout Drives Veterans’ Unemployment Down to Stunning 2.7%

Warthog Glamour

Rainbow Warrior A-10 Shows Off Marilyn Monroe Door Art Over the Middle East

Island Impact

Trump Says U.S. Launched ‘Minor Strikes’ on Iran as Missiles Slam Qeshm Island

Airfield Exit

U.S. Forces Exit Major Somali Airfield After More Than a Decade

Valor Unleashed

Soldiers Who ‘Absorbed the Danger’ Honored for Taking Down Fort Stewart Shooter

Pentagon

Free Drill Weekend Childcare Set to Expand Nationwide for Eligible Guardsmen

Fort Hood Shooting Victims Still Missing from Global War on Terror Casualty Rolls

Air Force Advances Plan to Revive WWII Pacific Airfields for 6,000 Annual Operations

U.S. European Command Launches Sweeping Vigilance Push as Hybrid Threats Escalate

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Arlington Arch Moments After Commission Approval

Intel

Russia Enlarges Drone Antennas to Defeat Ukrainian Jamming

Saudi Missile Factory Expansion May Yield Bigger, More Powerful Weapons, Study Finds

Marine Sniper Veteran Travels to Ukraine to Meet Marksman Behind Astonishing 2,069 Meter Shot

U.S. and Greece Forge Powerful New Front Against Terror Threats

Investigation Exposes UAE Missions with Sanctioned Russian Shadow Airline in Africa

Homeland

Threats Trigger National Guard Ballot Box Watch Across Washington State

Air Force Deploys F-16s to Remote Aleutian Outpost for Major Arctic Defense Drill

Military Takeover of New Mexico Borderlands Blasted in Federal Court

VA Watchdog Finds Painful Scar Errors Fueled $5.6 Million in Overpayments

U.S. Army Support for Golden Dome Missile Shield Locks Into Place

Pentagon

French Frigate’s Radical Bow Slices Through Waves for Remarkably Smooth Sailing

Pentagon

Shield AI Strikes $5.3 Billion Echodyne Deal to Bust Drone Threats

Pentagon

Popular Military Air Show Abandons RAF Fairford for Good After Suspected Iranian Plot

Pentagon

Inside CENTCOM Podcast Debuts as Iran War Costs and Deployments Mount [WATCH]

Pentagon

MBDA Targets 2029 Flight for Fat Hypersonic Interceptor Demonstrator

Pentagon

Israeli Company Says Computerized Trigger Is Built to Blast Small Drones From the Sky

Pentagon

Chaotic U.S. Europe Pullout Could Push NATO Allies Away From American Arms, RAND Warns

Pentagon

From Tanks to Space, Norway and Germany Accelerate the Hansa Security Pact

Pentagon

France Turns Tank Gunners Into FPV Drone Hunters as Army Races to Scale Up

Pentagon

VA Automation Surges as Veterans’ Claims Errors Explode

Pentagon

Germany Names Army Chief Christian Freuding for Nation’s Top Military Post

Pentagon

Navy Mustang Turns His Own Education Struggle Into a Lifeline for Veterans