Rumors of War

I recently resigned from my role on the Board of Visitors at National Defense University, the venerable institution of joint professional military education at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.I did not want to leave the job. I loved advising…

A robotics company and a defense contractor have teamed up for a high-tech fix to the military’s aircraft maintenance problem. Gecko Robotics and L3Harris announced Wednesday they will use drones to take thousands of images of aircraft and…

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The Army is facing a future where its posts are not safe from foreign attacks, where a strike on deployed troops can be followed up by a cyber attack on an installation, hamstringing the service’s ability to send in back-up. So the…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—As defense contractors await firm direction from the Pentagon on Golden Dome, executives say the technology already exists to start developing space-based interceptors capable of hitting missiles in their boost…

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…

The Air Force is in the midst of a large-scale endeavor to prepare for a potential showdown with China—an effort that will necessitate cutting-edge technology like stealthy jets and AI-powered drone wingmen. Just two months into the new…

The Army is going all-in on its effort to finally crack the code on rapid acquisition in a giant bureaucracy.Transformation in Contact is in its second wave this year, expanding beyond infantry brigade combat teams to Stryker and armored…

When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role as "warfighters”—arguing for new gear to defeat…

After years of navalist hand-wringing, could this be the year the U.S. Navy gets the support, and the changes, that enable a substantially larger fleet? Maybe.Let’s start with Congress, where the bipartisan SHIPS Act was introduced to…