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Navy Takes Preliminary Acceptance of Future USS John F. Kennedy

The Navy has taken preliminary acceptance of the future USS John F. Kennedy, moving its newest aircraft carrier out of the shipyard phase and...

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

The Associated Press has a big story. The United States is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East. About 9,000 sailors and Marines are...

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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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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

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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