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New: At three o’clock this morning, China’s Coast Guard rammed several Philippine Coast Guard vessels in the South China Sea, ripping a one-meter hole in one of Manila’s ships, and a five-inch hole in another, according to Philippine Coast…

How far will Ukrainian forces continue into Russia, and what are they trying to accomplish? The White House said this week that U.S. officials don’t yet know what Ukraine’s “intentions” are, but White House spokesman John Kirby told…

HONOLULU, Hawaii—U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is “underinvested” in special operations forces, “and I think SOF is underinvested in PACOM,” the command’s leader said Thursday. “But the time is now to get the SOF enterprise focused on the…

CJCS Brown: The Pentagon needs to speed up its integrated-deterrence efforts. When the Biden administration rolled out its integrated deterrence concept in 2022, it took a while to explain just what this new concept entailed, and longer to…

OMAHA, Nebraska—The U.S. government needs to be quicker about rolling out new integrated deterrence efforts, the Pentagon’s top military officer says, as global tensions have risen since the Biden administration made the concept a key part…

Ukrainian drones attacked several Russian bases early Wednesday, inflicting damage visible via satellite just a few hours later, officials in Kyiv said. That includes two hangars at Borisoglebsk Air Base well away from the frontlines, and…

Ukraine did not inform the U.S. military about its surprise cross-border incursion into the Kursk region of southern Russia, a senior defense official said, and has not told the U.S. about its long-term plan following the move. “We…

Developing: Two German bases on lockdown after possible sabotage of water supply, DW reports. The Cologne-Wahn base employs 4,300 soldiers and 1,200 civilians; the nearby NATO air base in the town of Geilenkirchen is now also on lockdown.…

Dispatch from occupied Kursk, Russia: “On Monday, about a dozen Ukrainian soldiers, their faces covered with surgical masks, were grunting and cursing as they pulled dead Russian soldiers from a hall with passport control booths, zipping…

Full speed ahead: SecDef Lloyd Austin ordered the acceleration of a carrier strike group headed to the Middle East in defense of Israeli and U.S. troops in the region, the Pentagon announced in a statement Sunday. Israel and its allies are…