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USS Ronald Reagan Returns to Bremerton After Pacific Training

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is back in Bremerton after nearly five weeks of Pacific training. Getting a carrier out of the shipyard is one...

Future Force Desk

Geoffrey Hinton Warned Us About Robot Armies. Then Came Ukraine.

Geoffrey Hinton has been warning us for several years that artificial intelligence could go very badly. Not badly as in your computer crashes. Badly as in...

The Men Planning the Next War Have Never Fought One

Pete Hegseth went to Quantico this week to talk about the future of war. Some of what he said made sense. The battlefield is changing. Fast. Drones...

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USS Ronald Reagan Returns to Bremerton After Pacific Training

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is back in Bremerton after nearly five weeks of Pacific training. Getting a carrier out of the shipyard is one...

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The Battlefield Is Moving Into Orbit

The United States has weapons in orbit. Not someday. Not in a Pentagon war game. Now. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink acknowledged Monday that the U.S....

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U.S. moves tankers and Ospreys from British base after threat

First the bombers. Now the tankers. The U.S. Air Force moved aircraft out of RAF Mildenhall in England on Monday after receiving a threat, a...

Follow the Damn Bombers, But Know the Damn Beat

The New York Times has now supplied the question that should have been asked before anybody decided that American B-1 bombers leaving Britain meant...

Those B-1s Weren’t Rotating Home, They Were Bugging Out

Earlier Sunday, B-1B Lancers began lifting out of RAF Fairford in England, heading west across the Atlantic under MAYAN call signs. At the time, it...

Now Follow the Damn Bombers

UPDATE, Oct. 4: Hours after this story was published, reports emerged that the B-1 departures from RAF Fairford were ordered after new warnings of...

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...

Deep Dive

This Deep Dive examines coverage of U.S. bombers leaving Britain and the questions reporters need to ask before turning aircraft movements into a story...
Media outlets and social media users recently spread alarming headlines about a massive American naval buildup featuring three aircraft carriers near Iran. However, this...

OPINION

For more than 80 years, the United States has maintained an unusual proposition: The government can pay journalists without owning their journalism. It was never...

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