MDA’s FY26 Budget Targets Homeland Missile Defense
Jen Judson, Defense News The Missile Defense Agency’s budget request for fiscal 2026
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Air Force Again Changes Course on Tankers
Michael Marrow, Breaking Defense Just two years after unveiling a new tanker strategy that would involve the development of a futuristic stealthy tanker, the Air Force is yet again shifting…
B-2 Spirit Receives New Communications and Survivability Upgrades
Aviationist These are planned to “happen continuously to ensure the B-2 fleet remains operational until the B-21 is fielded.”
Give the A-10s to Taiwan and They Can Stop a Chinese Sea Invasion
Asia Times The U.S. Air Force wants to trash the planes, send them to the boneyard to rot in the sun, but here’s a better idea
Trump’s Diplomatic Model
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures U.S. President Donald Trump has developed a clear model for exercising diplomacy
The Feather Merchants: Senior Leaders Subverted the Marine Corps
AmSpec Incompetent leaders misled the Marine Corps into ‘force design.’ It badly needs to return to conventional combat power.
Operation Midnight Hammer—Can’t We All Just Be Proud Americans?
RCDefense I went to sleep that night so proud to have been an American aviator—and an American citizen
NATO’s 5% Pledge: A Hollow Victory for a Dependent Europe?
A.A. Michta, 1945 The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European…
Space Force Rethinking Plans for Proliferated Satellite Comns
C4ISRNET The Space Force’s fiscal 2026 budget request proposes stalling plans to buy a third batch of communication satellites
Could the U.S. Have Executed Ukrain’s Operation Spider’s Web?
R. Laird, SLDinfo The operation’s success raises a provocative question: Could the world’s most technologically advanced military have pulled off the same feat?