Operations

A Look at the Longest U.S. Navy Carrier Deployments in History

Ten-month deployments were never supposed to be the norm. But in a year filled with extended combat operations and maintenance backlogs, long deployments have...

Left Behind in Bahrain: Inside the Navy's Multi-Billion Dollar Basing Dilemma

With the Iran War in its eighth month and no end in sight, American military planners are beginning to make long-term plans for force posture in the Gulf and...

Where I Was, and What Followed: A Personal Reflection on 9/11 and Pearl Harbor

I was a student at Air Command and Staff College that day, and it would be ten months before I joined you out there — it was agonizing sitting in class while...

25 Years After 9/11: Lessons from the War on Terror and the Threats Ahead

Twenty-five years after the worst terrorist attacks in history, the United States is operating in a security environment that would have been difficult to...

On The Radar: Iran Talks Stall, NSA Bahrain, Dolly's Connection to Servicemembers

This week's military news roundup covers six months of the U.S.-Iran conflict with stalled peace talks and continued deployments, the Navy's damaged NSA...

ChatGPT Mil Goes Live, Completing DoD's Three-Vendor Bet on Frontier AI

On August 31, 2026, the Department of Defense launched OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil, the department's enterprise generative AI platform, according to a...

On The Radar: Iran Talks Stall, NSA Bahrain, Dolly's Connection to Servicemembers

This week's military news roundup covers six months of the U.S.-Iran conflict with peace talks stalled and deployments ongoing, the Navy's damaged NSA Bahrain...

On The Radar: Six-Month Conflict with Iran, USS Lincoln R&R, Air Force Football Uniforms

This week's military news roundup covers six months of U.S.-Iran conflict with 18 service members killed and $37.5B spent, USS Abraham Lincoln sailors earning...

Army Pulls Back on Both Traditional Aviation and Its Signature Drone Unit

The U.S. Army is simultaneously realigning two different parts of its aviation portfolio: the manned helicopter formations that have defined Army aviation for...

One Year In: DC's "Temporary" National Guard Mission Now Runs Through 2029

A year ago this month, what the Trump administration described as a temporary emergency response to crime in Washington, DC, became one of the longest-running...

AI Warfare: What Autonomous Weapons Could Mean for America's Military & How Congress is Reacting

Artificial intelligence is changing the ways nearly every person, nation, business, and organization goes about daily life, and the US military is no...

Trump Orders Navy to Rip Out Electromagnetic Catapults on Next Ford-Class Carrier

President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Defense to draw up a plan for tearing the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Weapons...

Special Operations Veterans Could Get Nationwide Concealed Carry Under New Bills

If one of the two proposed bills introduced to committees in the House and Senate passes, current and former special operators will join law enforcement...

Department of Defense Expands Counter-Drone Marketplace, Deepens Ties With Allies and Industry

It should not be news to anyone who follows the events in the Gulf and Ukraine that drones on the battlefield have moved from “nuisance” to “significant...

From Feres to Accountability: Inside the Decades-Long Fight to Sue the Military for Sexual Trauma

When a service member is harmed not only by an individual perpetrator, but also by institutional negligence, what remedy exists? The Military Sexual Trauma...

On The Radar: Iraq Withdrawal, USS Lincoln Concerns, Beer at the Chow Hall

This week's military news roundup covers the Pentagon's planned Iraq withdrawal by September 30th, transferring ISIS counterterrorism operations to Iraqi...