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The Pentagon Isn’t Building Data Centers. It’s Building the Infrastructure of War

Americans are arguing about data centers. They're arguing about water. They're arguing about electricity. They're arguing about noise, taxes, transmission lines, and whether giant server farms belong...

America’s AI Buildout Is Becoming a National Security Fight

The people protesting giant AI data centers across America are not anti-technology radicals hiding in the woods wearing tin foil hats. Most are ordinary homeowners. Farmers. Retirees. Small-town...

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Navy

Navy Commissions USS Idaho, Adds Another Quiet Hunter to the Fleet

GROTON, Conn. — The Navy officially brought its newest attack submarine into service Saturday, commissioning the USS Idaho at Naval Submarine Base New London. It...

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Space Force

We’re Putting Guns in Orbit Now

Space used to be the place where we put telescopes, satellites, and the collective hopes of a country that once believed in moonshots. Now...

Air Force

Air Force Identifies Eight Killed in Edwards B-52 Crash

The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday released the names of eight airmen and civilian personnel killed in Monday's crash of a B-52 Stratofortress shortly...

U.S. F-15E Shot Down Over Iran; Rescue Effort Underway for Two Aircrew (Updated)

UPDATE APRIL 5, 1 a.m. EDT: U.S. forces have rescued the second crew member of the downed F-15E Strike Eagle, according to United States...

The United States has now unleashed B-52 bombers on Iran

If you want to understand what’s happening, forget the polished briefings and the Pentagon vocabulary words. Watch the aircraft. The Air Force tells the...

Raptors Forward: Washington Stacks the Deck Against Tehran

When you move F-22s, you’re not posturing. You’re loading the rifle. The U.S. Air Force has surged F-22 Raptors and a growing armada of aerial...

U.S. Airpower Stacks Up in the Caribbean Under Operation Southern Spear

The orders from the Pentagon came down last weekend. Quietly. No ceremony. No speeches. The United States is continuing to ramp up its military posture...

OPINION

There was a time—not that long ago—when a photo like that “bare tray” making the rounds this week wouldn’t have made it past a...

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