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Immigrants to the U.S. are more willing to “fight for the country” than the native-born, according to a multinational study that may have resonance amid military recruitment struggles and an election charged with rhetoric and…

On the morning of Jan. 22, 2024, Elmer De León Pérez descended deep into the bowels of a ship that he was helping to build in Houma, Louisiana. Pérez was a welder, working to construct one of the U.S. government’s most sophisticated ships,…

How might Donald Trump use the U.S. military if he returned to the Oval Office? Against his political enemies, he says. That’s not a warning from his former defense secretary, who has documented the then-president’s interest in…

In the winter of 2022, Lennard de Klerk was running a carbon-neutral ecolodge in a tiny Hungarian town when Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine and hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed the border into Hungary.De Klerk, a Dutch engineer…

The Army is buying hundreds of small drones as it starts to equip its infantry with warfare’s latest must-have weapon, but that’s not nearly enough. The experience of current units suggests the service will need to buy thousands per year…

The Defense Department on Friday released the final rule for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, but this is just one of several final steps until CMMC goes into force.DOD will publish the rule officially on…

NATO is devising a commercial space strategy as allied militaries realize just how much they might need industry’s satellites in wartime. It will resemble the Pentagon’s six-month-old commercial space strategy, said Maj. Gen. Devin…

Perhaps nothing illustrates the power of misinformation in America better than what happened Monday morning when retired Army Lieutenant Gen. Michael Flynn hit the send button on a social media post: He shared a video that claimed “weather…

Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz spent an awful lot of time during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate talking about what he and Kamala Harris would do on “day one” and beyond if Americans (and Big Tech oligarchs) elect them this November.…

The U.S. military speaks frequently about the lessons they’re learning from the war in Ukraine. The Air Force has sought to evaluate the Ukrainian military’s methods for detecting drones, while the Army has revamped training, fielded…