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At least one Pentagon agency has begun firing probationary workers
The Defense Logistics Agency has started firing civilian employees who were hired, transferred, or promoted within the last year or two, Defense One has learned, as part of a larger Pentagon workforce-reduction effort announced late last…
‘No more viable option than NGAD,’ Air Force says as decision rests in new hands
AURORA, Colo.—With the future of the Air Force's sixth-generation fighter jet in limbo, service officials pointed to a recent internal study to buttress their argument that there’s no better way to secure the air in future conflicts than…
By halting Ukraine aid, Trump courts personal defeat
President Donald Trump has suspended military aid for Kyiv following his contentious Oval Office meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. If not reversed, Trump’s decision will, at best, undermine his own efforts to…
The D Brief: US halts Ukraine aid; Defense policy nom testifies; China’s wedges between allies;…
Trump halts military aid to UkraineThree years into Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and less than two months into Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. president has ordered a pause of all U.S. military support to the…
Air Force, Space Force chiefs make forceful cases for ‘warrior ethos’
AURORA, Colo.—The leaders of the Air Force and Space Force were fired up Monday during their keynote speeches at the service’s spring conference, loudly emphasizing the necessity of a “warrior ethos,” as military leaders adjust their…
Chinese info ops, military sales driving ‘wedges’ between US and partners in the Middle East
AURORA, Colo.—China is driving wedges between the United States and Middle Eastern countries by spreading information that paints the U.S. as an unreliable partner while pitching its own military offerings as better options, according to a…
Hegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down on cyber- and information-operations planning against Russia, according to a U.S. official and a second person familiar with the order.The move appears to be intended…
The D Brief: Oval Office explosion; Spies target shaken feds; Strykers to the border; China’s battle…
Trump-Ukraine rift deepens U.S. President Donald Trump’s much-touted mineral-access agreement with Ukraine collapsed Friday ahead of a planned signing ceremony with visiting President Volodymir Zelenskyy. But what the world saw in that…
New products show China’s quest to automate battle
The drones that fanned out during a recent People’s Liberation Army exercise were dispatched by the Intelligent Precision Strike System, a new product from Chinese defense giant Norinco that used the UAVs’ real-time data to model the…
After Oval Office disaster, Europe emerges as Ukraine’s best hope
Hours after a heated disagreement in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, America’s sudden retreat from a democracy-forward foreign policy took dramatic form a bit further down…
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