Category: Defence

Two soldiers assigned to the 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, hold a security posture in support of Exercise Balikatan 25, at Aparri, Cagayan Valley, Philippines, on May 3. (SSG. Brenden Delgado/U.S. Army) Soldiers with the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division are in the midst of a training exercise with Philippine allies that has

Opinion By Joseph Welch  Tuesday, Jun 3, 2025 U.S. Army Soldiers with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are pictured during exercise Dragoon Ready 2023. (Sgt. Rebecca Call/U.S. Army) Within the Army Transformation Initiative, the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort represents a fundamental change in delivering data-driven C2 to our formations. From requirements to resourcing, acquisition

Maj. Gen. Jered Helwig, the commanding general of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, receives a tour of the Joint Theater Distribution Center in Australia on May 22, 2024. (Courtesy of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command) The U.S. Army will test a nascent capability to effectively preposition equipment and supplies forward in the Pacific theater in

The Army is seeking to develop and field a mobile nuclear reactor to power forward-operating bases. (DOD) Some Army installations could be powered by nuclear microreactors under an executive order recently issued by President Donald Trump. The order, published May 23, calls for deploying advanced nuclear reactor technologies for national security and directs Army Secretary

In the wake of a string of deadly military aviation accidents over the past several years, the U.S. Army is launching a major overhaul of how it trains new pilots that focuses on getting back to the basics. The overhaul includes rethinking the type of aircraft used for training, along with a likely shift to

Members of the North Carolina Air National Guard assess an Army M10 Booker Combat Vehicle before it is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. (Staff Sgt. Reanna Hartgrove/U.S. Air National Guard) The Army has spent well over a billion dollars on a light tank the service is now terminating, just as the program was

The sun rises above an M2A3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle at a range in Qatar on Nov. 11, 2018. (Spc. Jovi Prevot/U.S. Army National Guard) The U.S. Army has signed off on the advancement of two industry teams into a technology development phase to build prototypes of a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement. American Rheinmetall

A U.S. HIMARS, seen here being fired by U.S. soldiers during the Balikatan military exercise in Rizal, Philippines, May 2, 2024. (Cpl. Kyle Chan/Marine Corps) The U.S. Army in the Pacific has begun working through how it will build two Multi-Domain Commands in the theater to oversee and direct the service’s Multi-Domain Task Force units

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Stetson Manuel assembles the Ghost-X drone during the human-machine integration experiment for Project Convergence in Fort Irwin, California, on March 11, 2024. (Staff Sgt. LaShic Patterson/U.S. Army) As the U.S. Army attempts one of the biggest reorganizations in recent decades, it will have to do it within the confines of a

Soldiers take part in a human-machine integration demonstration at Fort Irwin, California, March 2024. (Spc. Samarion Hicks/U.S. Army) Four Silicon Valley technology executives from major companies are joining the U.S Army Reserve as officers to inject the speed and expertise of commercial technology development into military innovation through the newly established Detachment 201, an Executive