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Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Behind Trump’s Yemen retreat: The U.S. military nearly lost “several” F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet to air defense systems in Yemen during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aborted Operation Rough Rider, U.S. officials told the New York Times.

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The State Department aims to cut substantially more employees than generally expected: some 3,400 instead of roughly 2,000, report GovExec’s Eric Katz and Nextgov’s David Dimolfetta.

6 days ago | defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Brad Peniston

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports In a new first, Pakistan and India exchanged drone attacks overnight, officials from the two countries said Thursday as the nuclear-armed militaries extended a cycle of attacks and counterattacks that erupted Wednesday in response to an apparent terrorism incident that killed 26 people at a resort in late April.

1 week ago | defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Brad Peniston

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan just reignited their long-simmering conflict. On Wednesday, Indian airstrikes reportedly killed more than two dozen people and injured at least 46 others across nine alleged terrorist sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistan called the strikes “an unprovoked and blatant act of war,” and responded with shelling believed to have killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 48 others in the Jammu and Kashmir regions.

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Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Hegseth orders elimination of 10% of general, admiral jobs.