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SAN FRANCISCO — China, Russia, and other potential U.S. adversaries are showing increased interest in disrupting American space assets through cyberattacks that could cripple military communications, a top DOD cyber official said…

Russia’s autocratic leader Vladimir Putin has sacked his defense minister, replacing the nearly lifelong bureaucrat Sergie Shoigu with the much lower-profile economist Andrei Belousov, the Kremlin announced in what Reuters referred to as a…

Russia is pushing into Ukraine’s Kharkiv border region, creating a new front in the invasion it launched 27 months ago. Reuters: “Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv in the…

An American soldier has been detained inside Russia on charges of theft, authorities there announced Monday. His name is Gordon Black, and U.S. Army officials confirmed his detention in a statement Wednesday. He is a staff sergeant who had…

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. operation that pulverized a cluster of compromised internet equipment used by Chinese hackers to stage breaches into American critical infrastructure was only the very beginning of what’s become a rapidly evolving…

Updated: The U.S. paused the shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel over White House concerns about their possible use during a ground offensive into Rafah, administration officials said Tuesday. Background: The Wall Street Journal reported…

ABOARD AN AIR FORCE RESERVE WC-130J—Flying above the Atlantic Ocean, an airman launches a Pringles-can-sized sensor from his 20-plus-year-old aircraft. As it parachutes to the ocean, the sensor sends back temperatures, dew points, wind…

U.S. officials announce the first purchases for Replicator, the Pentagon's ambitious drone acquisition program. They include “uncrewed surface vehicles (USV), uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and counter-uncrewed aerial systems (c-UAS) of…

Russian defense officials announced plans for tactical nuclear weapons drills at an unspecified future date. The idea is “to practice the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons,” the Defense Ministry said Monday on…

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—China is the only country with “both the will and… the capacity to dominate the Indo-Pacific,” and it “continues to engage in increasingly coercive behavior” in the Taiwan Straits, the South China Sea, and elsewhere,…