Bradley Peniston

3 days ago | defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire again for sharing sensitive military details on the unclassified messaging app Signal, but in an additional channel separate from the one that got him and White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz into trouble last month, the New York Timesreported Sunday.

1 week ago | defenseone.com | Bradley Peniston |Lauren C. Williams |Ben Watson

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports After a two-month vacancy, President Trump has secured his preferred top military advisor. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine was confirmed as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a 60-25 late-night Senate vote. Caine has extensive F-16 piloting experience, and he served as a counterterrorism advisor under President George W.

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Bradley Peniston |Ben Watson

UkraineKyiv’s former top military commander has some advice for the U.S. military: Ukraine’s battlefield-management system known as DELTA deserves recognition as a centralized interface for contemporary, software-dependent warfare, argues Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, writing Thursday for Defense One. “Data, AI, drones, and their management have become the norm, forcing new tactics, equipment, and systems that can adapt quickly against an evolving enemy,” Zaluzhnyi writes.

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Jennifer Hlad |Bradley Peniston

Insights & Reports The White House on Wednesday released three defense-related executive orders: One to overhaul Pentagon acquisition, one to reform arms exports, and one to “restore American maritime dominance.” The acquisition order aims to “reform our antiquated defense acquisition processes with an emphasis on speed, flexibility, and execution,” to “modernize the duties and composition of the defense acquisition workforce” and encourage them to take risks, the White House said Wednesday....

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Bradley Peniston |Ben Watson

Insights & Reports SecDef Hegseth vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal from Chinese influence in remarks Tuesday that Reuters reported “appeared fine-tuned, talking tough but offering some assurances to Panamanians still unsettled by Trump's threats to reclaim the canal.” “China did not build this canal,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a pier in Panama City. “China does not operate this canal and China will not weaponize this canal.