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2 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston
Breaking: National security advisor, deputy, expected to step down. CBS News reports that Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are expected to resign today, citing multiple sources familiar with their departure.
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2 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Bradley Peniston |Ben Watson
Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Army to cut generals, PEOs, commands? Service leaders are reportedly weighing a proposal to reduce the number of generals and program executive offices, and even to merge Army Futures Command with Training and Doctrine Command.
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2 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston
Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports The U.S. Navy lost a F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft Monday during an engagement with the Houthi militants off the coast of Yemen. But it wasn’t in the air when it happened.
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2 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston
Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports The U.S. Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it. Defense One’s Meghann Myers lays out the jaw-dropping history of the M10 Booker combat vehicle off a candid interview with Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer. “This is not a story of acquisition gone awry,” Miller said.
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2 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Bradley Peniston |Ben Watson
Developing: India-Pakistan tensions are rising after deadly terror attack. Islamabad has denied responsibility for the April 22 attack that killed 26 mostly Indian tourists in an India-controlled Himalayan region, but the nations have nevertheless edged toward war; they have “downgraded diplomatic and trade ties, closed the main border crossing and revoked visas for each other’s nationals,” the Associated Press reported Thursday from New Delhi.
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3 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston
Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports After at least a week of publicly threatening to abandon Ukraine, the Trump White House is pushing Kyiv to accept an apparently lopsided, U.S.-brokered peace deal that includes recognition of Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation of Crimea, among other sacrifices—but little to no concessions for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defense One’s Patrick Tucker reports. “If [Ukraine] wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven...
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3 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston
Forensics of a scandal: Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reportedly moved information from a general shared on a classified channel and to at least two separate, unsecured chat threads on the messaging app Signal, Courtney Kube and Gordon Lubold of NBC News reported Tuesday, citing three U.S. officials “with direct knowledge of the exchanges.”The information Hegseth shared on Signal originated from Central Command’s Army Gen.
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3 weeks ago | 
defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Bradley Peniston
Consider this: “Earlier this year, an independent panel set up by the American Physical Society...concluded a constellation of about 16,000 interceptors would be needed to attempt to counter a rapid salvo of about 10 solid propellant ICBMs similar to North Korea's Hwasong-18 missiles,” Brumfiel writes.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
