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As the U.S. military expands its capabilities for space operations, the department will be looking at not just weapons, but also how space can be used for logistics and support. Military logistics is the practice of maintaining, supplying, and moving U.S. forces and equipment all over the globe. U.S. Transportation Command leads the military’s logistics […]

‘Showmanship’

‘The Department is a planning organization’

The U.S. military, citing unspecified "risks to our personnel," on Monday banned electric vehicles manufactured by Chinese automaker BYD from Kadena, a key U.S. air base on Okinawa.

The U.S. military has deployed short-range air defense systems around President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida.

Ukraine has been waiting for almost a month ‌for the U.S. war secretary to sign off on critical missile supplies, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, as Russia stepped up attacks on energy and civilian infrastructure.

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy? The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni Ali’s waist. Her home, five metres from the flooded River Juba in southern Somalia, never stood a chance. There was nowhere to go. Ali’s city of Jilib was under attack. Repeated airstrikes, said the mother of six, were pinning its population beside the rising river. “The drones come all the time,” said the 27-year-old. “We hear them constantly. They kill animals, civilians. The town is big but destruction is everywhere.” Continue reading...

A 20-year-old U.S. Marine has been charged in the killing and robbing of a Japanese woman at a hotel in Okinawa.

US Marines and Navy sailors carried out a maritime interdiction operation in the Pacific Ocean on September 5, as part of a broader US military deployment targeting illicit drug trafficking. Dramatic footage shows vessels being destroyed and military personnel moving in on boats during the operation.

This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry The US military has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor. The access also raises new national security questions, industry observers say. Continue reading...

On the first day of its war against Iran, the United States killed 123 children when it targeted and struck an elementary school. The strikes, ultimately approved by humans, were facilitated by the US’s Maven Smart System, an AI-enabled software platform developed by Palantir Technologies that allows the military to aggregate, organize, and process battlefield […]

On October 25, 1983, U.S. troops, supported by six Caribbean nations, invaded the tiny, leftist-ruled island of Grenada, rescuing 1,000 American students and restoring order to the country. The death toll in about two mo

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Military boards are blatantly disobeying Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth’s ban on transgenders serving in the United States Armed Forces.

U.S. intelligence has warned that Iranian plots to kill Americans abroad have reached “advanced stages,” as Washington reduces diplomatic staffing across the Middle East amid mounting threats and the prospect of renewed military strikes against Tehran. The post U.S. Intel Warns Iranian Plots to Kill Americans Abroad Have Reached ‘Advanced Stages’ — Regional Embassies Reduce Staff appeared first on Breitbart .

The United States appears to be preparing to resume large-scale strikes against Iran, but the effect of the action on the 8-month-old war remains unclear, experts say.

Mysterious black triangle objects speeding up to 1,800 miles per hour without vapor trails were spotted over secret US military bases.

On a recent evening near a secure U.S. facility, three federal agents saw a flying object they couldn't identify: a large "matte black triangle" that moved as fast as a fighter jet, made no sound and then disappeared, according to FBI and Defense Department reports. Why it matters: The 15-foot flying triangle is classified as a UFO-like "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" because the U.S. doesn't have the technology to make such a craft — and neither do its adversaries. The reports of the drone-like aircraft is of growing interest and concern to intelligence and military officials. Driving the news: The two reports about the mysterious triangle were included in a batch of 10 documents released Friday by U.S. officials under President Trump's order this year to disclose UAP records from all government sources as soon as possible. Friday's disclosure marks the seventh release of a tranche of documents under the order. Some of the documents found in the National Archives are from the 1940s. Zoom in: The flying triangle reports are the most intriguing because the incident — from this year — is so recent. The month and day are redacted. The FBI document is labeled an "Unidentified Aerial Object Observation Report" and the Defense Department 's report on it is classified as a "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" report. The observers were federal agents, including two with "extensive operational experience" and familiarity with drones. One had a "thermal monocular" for infrared tracking and yet couldn't detect "discrete heat sources associated with propulsion" from an engine on the mysterious craft. The agents reported seeing the drone-like triangle, with a wingspan of about 15 feet, rise vertically for as many as 300 feet above a mountain ridgeline without tilting or swaying. It stopped, hovered for about 20 seconds, and then flew horizontally as fast as a fighter jet for about 1.5 miles in three seconds without making a sound before it vanished. The intrigue: One of the documents released Friday doesn't concern a flying object. It's a declassified 2010 report about the Utah property known as the "Skinwalker Ranch," named after supernatural shapeshifting witches in Navajo culture. "Witnesses have reported unidentified balls of light at close range, daytime sightings of "dog-like" creatures running on two legs, unnatural animalistic howling/screaming, 'little people,' prehistoric-like birds and a maggot which measured about 8 feet long and 2- to 3-feet in diameter," the report said. The report's authors present no final conclusions or hard evidence, such as photographs, of the supernatural. DNA tests from one clump of hair from a suspected "Skinwalker" showed it came from a raccoon. The ranch is now the subject of a Netflix show . Other items in the tranche include: A 1954 report from a Swedish Transair pilot who said he and his crew witnessed flying saucers: "Previously I have been extremely skeptical about all the stories of mysterious objects — called flying saucers — that have been seen at diverse points," the captain said. "Now I don't know exactly what to think; but it did seem to me that we had seen a robot of some kind." A 1957 report from a B-52 pilot over Saudi Arabia who said he witnessed an unidentified aircraft. 1949 and a 1952 UFO reports from California's Catalina Island, site of some of the nation's first "flying saucer" sightings. A 1963 interagency coordination memo and 1960s records concerning how NASA and the Defense Department would handle and publicly discuss the collection of "fragments or suspected fragments of space vehicles of all types." Yes, but: The records released by the administration do not express any conclusions as to whether the government believes the UAPs represent the existence of alien life. They also don't indicate any conclusions as to whether UAPs represent a national security threat to the U.S.

Saudi Arabia appears to be expanding its ballistic missile factory to build larger solid-fuel missiles that could fly farther or carry heavier payloads, according to two US researchers who analyzed more than a year of commercial satellite images. More capable missiles could...

Iran has warned that if the U.S. and Israel relaunch air strikes, it will strike American bases, warships and airports, pipelines and other civilian targets throughout the Persian Gulf, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth barred all Pentagon staff from using undisclosed information to place wagers on forthcoming U.S. military action using betting platforms and prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. “Make no mistake why this matters. Our enemies watch movements in these markets," Hegseth said in a memo, first obtained by CBS News. "When an American...

‘Another round of war’

Lockheed Martin's 10-year F-35 framework covers 850 aircraft for the U.S. military, but the deal still needs congressional approval to move forward.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele launched a military combat operation in Haiti to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs.

The Pentagon’s Active Denial System shoots energy beam that causes ‘sensation of intense heat on surface of skin’ Pete Hegseth , the US secretary of defense, reportedly signed a memo last month permitting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to test a non-lethal “heat ray” for potential use at the US southern border. The “heat ray”, known as the Active Denial System , is a military-grade weapon that shoots an energy beam causing “a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin”, according to a 2009 National Defense University case study on the weapon. Continue reading...