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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump's birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven ...

"Adapt or die." This isn't just a cliché; it's a fundamental truth of human survival. Security--the psychological need for stability and protection--is second only to food and water in ...

Historical lessons on how control of undersea communicationnetworks offers advantage beyond mere disruption. Sabotage operations conducted against cables and pipelines in European waters, which are ...

The Trump administration is moving quickly to reform foreign defense sales through an executive order issued on April 9. The order reiterates the value of capable allies to Americans and directs ...

Seven Things You Can't Say About China by Senator Tom Cotton Senator Cotton has written a must-read book for all Americans. It is a stark warning, a wake-up call that China is already waging war ...

America's Soldiers Are Buying Their Own Drones. Why Soldiers Shouldn't Have to Fund Their Own Transformation. The third decade of the twenty-first century is halfway done, but the Russia-Ukraine ...

If there was a single word that defined the opening day of SOF Week 2025 in Tampa, it wasn't one that the average American keeps in their vocabulary. It was SOF-Peculiar--a term that sounds like a ...

Cut the Chaff-Acquisition Revolution at SOCOM in the Age of Irregular Warfare As today's adversaries move at the speed of commercial innovation and the modern battlefield grows increasingly ...

An upcoming battle over defence acquisition will have repercussions for U.S. military posture, particularly in the Pacific. The weapons that get bought in larger or smaller quantities, or are ...

The first nation to field Artificial Generative Intelligence (AGI) wins everything! True AGI will be able to rewrite its own code and scale its cognitive capacity at speeds that will leave ...