Breaking Defense’s 5 most-clicked stories of 2025
From an Army leader’s harsh warning to AFRICOM’s worries, here are a few stories that broke out of containment this year.
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Meeting Zero Trust goals while maintaining information dominance
[Sponsored] Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
US greenlights massive, $11 billion military arms package to Taiwan
Beijing did not take the announcement well, saying the offer of the arms package “grossly violates the one-China principle,” undermines stability in the region and “sends a gravely wrong signal to ‘Taiwan independence’ sep…
Trump taps Lamontagne as next Air Force No. 2
Air Mobility Command chief Gen. John Lamontagne — one of several new military nominees submitted by the White House on Monday — would fill a role left vacant since the firing of Gen. James Slife in February.
How TAK gives the US military an advantage at the Edge
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
[Sponsored] Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
[Sponsored] The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Navy, Palantir unveil ShipOS in a bid to boost nuclear sub production
“We’re deploying an AI-powered shipbuilding operating system across the maritime industrial base,” Navy Secretary John Phelan told an audience alongside Palantir chief Alex Karp.
Pentagon rolls out GenAI platform to all personnel, using Google’s Gemini
Other “frontier AI capabilities” will join Gemini on the new GenAi.mil platform, meant to make generative AI tools available to all three million military and civilian personnel, the Department of Defense announced.
China threat still drives Pentagon R&E despite counternarcotics focus: Emil Michael
While the National Security Strategy has a strong focus on the Western Hemisphere, the undersecretary for research and engineering said, “I am focused much more on other parts of the world.”