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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...

How the Media Miscounted Aircraft Carriers

Deep Dive: Three Carriers? Follow the Ships Before You Call It Escalation

Deep Dive: Hinton’s Warning and the Cheap Drones Changing Warfare

Now Follow the Damn Bombers

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...

For 60 Years, the Military Has Argued About Taking the Pilot Out of the Plane

AI Is Already Changing How Wars Are Fought

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

America’s AI Buildout Is Becoming a National Security Fight

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Anduril Plans Submarine Manufacturing Complex at Former Maryland Shipyard

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Anduril Plans Submarine Manufacturing Plant at Tradepoint Atlantic The $3.7 billion project will occupy leased waterfront property at Maryland’s former Sparrows Point shipyard. Anduril Industries announced...

BREAKING: USS Ronald Reagan Arrives in San Diego

That ‘Three-Carrier Buildup’ Lasted About Two Days

AP Political Reporters Counted Three Carriers; They Forgot to Follow the Ships

Saronic Is Building a Gulf Coast Shipbuilding Network — And the Navy Is Buying

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Space Force

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....

We’re Putting Guns in Orbit Now

U.S. Military’s X-37B Secret Spaceplane Set for Historic Launch to Higher Orbit

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Follow the Damn Bombers, But Know the Damn Beat

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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...

Deep Dive

When Headlines Outrun the Reporting

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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...

How the Media Miscounted Aircraft Carriers

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Deep Dive
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

Permission Is Not Independence

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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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