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Take a trip to the pine forests of Louisiana, where U.S. soldiers just tested a fast-moving new recon unit while temperatures soared well into the 90s. Defense One’s Sam Skove tagged along for several days of wargaming on Fort Johnson,…

At least 10 drones were shot down over Moscow early Wednesday. “This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever,” said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, writing on Telegram six different times over a 90-minute period…

The Air Force will send units from across the United States to the Pacific next summer for an exercise designed to test the way it plans to deploy forces in a potential conflict with China. “We're calling our summer exercise 25…

A Russian oil depot is in flames for a third consecutive day following a Ukrainian drone attack over the weekend in the southern Rostov city of Proletarsk, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. “There are 500 firefighters involved in the…

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…