Rumors of War

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…

The Marine Corps in 2025 is about halfway through its decade-long, top-to-bottom modernization plan, trying to balance that with staying ready for its core mission as the Defense Department’s crisis-response force, which is “is wicked hard…

The Department of Defense is on the verge of a breakthrough with advanced nuclear energy that promises to strengthen military readiness and revitalize a globally competitive U.S. commercial nuclear industry. But for that to happen, it needs…

A small office in the State Department tasked with monitoring foreign disinformation threats was shuttered Wednesday by the Trump administration, the latest in a series of steps the White House has taken since January to dismantle entities…

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…

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Space warfare gets a formal definition thanks to a new strategic document. The U.S. Space Force released “Space Warfighting - A Framework for Planners,” which outlines possible offensive and defensive actions, respectively, such as…

The Space Force has defined what it means by “space warfighting” in a new document that service officials hope will give a clearer picture to guardians and joint planners of how the service plans to operate in a future conflict. The…

The art of deception, as old as war itself, can garner astonishment when one side’s competence enables it to pull off an audacious plan. Warfighters can exploit the electromagnetic spectrum to deceive as we increasingly sense and understand…