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The Marine Corps wants to employ more passive sensors and kinetic weapons to find and take down drones, and plans to field personal drone detectors in the next 12 months, officers said Thursday at the Modern Day Marine conference. Some…

By year’s end, the Air Force’s new command will start lifting the burden of modernization planning from major commands, allowing them to focus on keeping their forces ready to fight. The three-star Integrated Capabilities Command will…

The U.S. military is shifting its Iraq and Yemen airstrike operations out of the UAE and over to Qatar, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. That means moving surveillance planes, jets, and drones out of the Al Dhafra air base in Abu…

A North Korean hacking collective is leveraging poorly configured email security protocols to deploy phishing attacks against academic institutions, think tanks, journalists and nonprofit organizations, U.S. agencies warned Thursday.The…

The U.S. military has long held a key advantage over China's: it can hit mobile targets at extremely long distances. But that “monopoly is over,” the Space Force’s intel chief said Thursday. China is building a massive architecture of…

The U.S. says Russia is using chemical weapons in Ukraine. The allegation was made public in February when Ukrainian officials flagged Russia’s use of the World War I-era chemical weapon chloropicrin—also known as CS, or tear gas—including…

The detonation of a Russian nuclear space weapon could render low-Earth orbit unusable for a year, according to a top Pentagon space official.“Several analysts do believe that detonation in space at the right magnitude in the right location…

UK eyes Chinese drone parts for Ukraine. Britain is open to the idea of supplying made-in-China drone components to Ukraine, a UK official said Tuesday. It's a notion that reflects Ukrainian pragmatism but runs counter to U.S. policy. “We…

As Israel's prime minister reiterated his intention to push into Gaza's westernmost division, the U.S. defense secretary said Tuesday that he hasn't seen enough evidence that the Israeli military is prepared to ease the toll on…

What Green Berets learn from the Ukrainians they train. “Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion more than two years ago, Col. Lucas VanAntwerp and other Army special-forces soldiers have trained thousands of Ukrainian commandos in…