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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.

6 days ago | defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Lauren C. Williams

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Bye-bye, DEI. The Pentagon has shuttered and reassigned all personnel working in diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs. A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday announced that all DEI positions across the Defense Department had been “abolished” as of April to comply with recent White House executive orders.

6 days ago | defenseone.com | Meghann Myers

The next phase will include some rethinking of how the Army fights. The Global War on Terrorism saw the introduction of brigade combat teams, designed as a standalone force of about 4,000 soldiers, with several types of combat units, engineers and a support battalion. Those worked well plugged into forward operating bases and combat outposts and Iraq and Afghanistan, but the Army is thinking it will need much bigger formations maneuvering together on a battlefield in a near-peer fight.

6 days ago | defenseone.com | Meghann Myers

“It has been a long time, maybe since World War II, since a member of an infantry squad on the ground actually had to look up or over his shoulder do anything other than clear an aircraft hot, or call in a medevac or something like that,” said Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson. In March, the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, the service’s second unit dedicated to operating in shallow, coastal waters, reached initial operational capability with the addition of a littoral combat team.

6 days ago | defenseone.com | Lauren C. Williams

The Pentagon has officially eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs, to comply with White House executive orders, according to a watchdog report. But Congress had already done the heavy lifting last year. The Defense Department went from 115 to just 41 DEI jobs by July 2024 per a provision in the 2024 annual defense policy law, according to a Government Accountability Office in a report released Thursday.