War News
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The B-52 Bomber Is Getting So Many Upgrades It Could Now Fly Until the 2050s
Key Points and Summary – The B-52J modernization program is facing a “nightmare” of cost overruns and multi-year delays, pushing…
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Army’s noncommittal procurement strategy is creating quandaries for vendors
The Army’s new acquisition strategy—buy fast, in small quantities, then maybe buy a lot more—is causing headaches for at least…
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Army Quote of the Day by Sun Tzu: ‘Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is…’
Synopsis: Sun Tzu, the mysterious author of The Art of War, remains a titan of military strategy 2,500 years later.…
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Hegseth aims to dock Sen. Kelly’s pension for illegal-orders video
The Defense Department will attempt to downgrade Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s retirement rank and pay, seeking to punish him…
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Military Quote of the Day by Thomas Jefferson: ‘I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind…’
Synopsis: A widely quoted Thomas Jefferson line—“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind”—can read like…
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2025 in review: defense systems
USAF plan to fly C-5, C-17s even longer elicits concern Service says it needs to hedge against delays to…
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Forget the F-22 of F-35: The Air Force’s New 6th-Gen F-47 NGAD Is Coming
Key Points and Summary – Boeing’s F-47 sits at the center of the U.S. NGAD effort, built to replace the…
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Inside China’s nascent, AI-powered military logistics system
兵马未动，粮草先行—”Before the troops and horses move, provisions and fodder must go first”—is the Chinese equivalent of Napoleon’s supposed saying that…
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Forget F-35, F-47 and FCAS: The GCAP Fighter Is Coming
Synopsis: Japan has doubled down on its next-generation GCAP fighter, confirming a 2035 in-service target after a fresh review of…
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2025 in review: policy – Defense One
Hegseth stands up anti-DEI task force Some of the task force’s targets, like quotas and discriminatory promotion policies, don’t…
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