Trump endorses ‘strong, powerful’ Takaichi in rare intervention ahead of Japan election
American president says he will welcome Japanese prime minister to White House next month
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New START expires: Will a new US-Russia nuclear arms race follow?
President Donald Trump “will decide the path forward on nuclear arms control, which he will clarify on his own timeline,” a White House official told Breaking Defense.
How France could settle historic Cambodia-Thailand border dispute
101 people were killed and more than half a million were displaced in the latest clashes
Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets
Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting organizations in Southeast Asia for espionage purposes. On Wednesday, Kaspersk…
How state-sponsored attackers hijacked Notepad++ updates
Suspected Chinese state-sponsored attackers hijacked the Notepad++ update mechanism by compromising the software project’s shared hosting server and intercepting and redirecting update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org, the software̵…
22-year-old Australian snowboarder dies after backpack gets caught in ski lift
Ella Day Brooke suffers cardiac arrest after freak accident on ski lift in Japan’s Nagano prefecture
New National Defense Strategy could leave adversaries, and allies, guessing: Analysts
“It’s very ambiguous, and I don’t know if they even recognize the contradictions that they’re creating,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center.
Canada and India agree to expand oil and gas trade as energy ties reset
Ottawa says heavy reliance on the US as an export destination has left it vulnerable
Trump raises US tariffs on South Korean imports to 25% and blames ally for trade deal delay
Trump blames South Korea’s national assembly for not ratifying deal he reached with President Lee Jae Myung in July
Beyond 2025: What defense leaders need to watch in 2026
What’s in store for 2026? Breaking Defense reporters examine how the decisions, disruptions, and developments of 2025 could shape the year ahead.