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Jen Judson • Defense News

BAE to Integrate Israeli Iron Fist on Dutch Combat Vehicles

WASHINGTON — The Netherlands awarded BAE Systems a contract last month to test and verify the Iron Fist active protection system (APS) on its CV90...

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Lauren C. Williams • Defense One

Army Seeing Progress in Pacific Network

Recent exercises suggest the service and its foreign partners are moving closer to a single-screen data system...

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Anastasia Obis • Federal News Network

Army’s Strategic Capital Initiative Is ‘Not Slowing Down’

"To be clear to the market and to our partners — we're moving out. Good news is there is no gap, only consistent desire to move faster," Marc...

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Nathan A. Jennings • Military Review

Multidomain Operations

Howgate Publishing’s novel compilation, Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century, provides a timely and...

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Jay Rogers • RealClearDefense

Somebody Has to Hold the Ground

... wars end on the ground, and now the Army and Congress owe taxpayers the money, factories, and fitness standards to match it....

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Somebody Has to Hold the Ground

Jay Rogers • RealClearDefense • October 26, 2026

Congress opened the Army’s fiscal year on a stopgap, and a week later the Army released its playbook for the next war. My oldest son graduated from West Point and now flies for the Army, so I read How the Army Fights the way a father reads a report card: slowly, with one eye on the fine print. GEN Christopher LaNeve, the Vice Chief of Staff, signed it. The stopgap, signed September 2 and running through December 11, holds spending at last year’s levels.

My thesis is short. The guidance learns the right lesson, that wars end on the ground, and now the Army and Congress owe taxpayers the money, factories, and fitness standards to match it. Credit the Army for saying it plainly, since a Pentagon document rarely does.

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Nathan Jennings • Small Wars Journal

How the Army Fights: Insights from the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War offers an enduring demonstration of how military forces innovate to overcome sophisticated defenses, restore operational...

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Michael Carvelli • Modern War Institute

Battlefield Disposition and the Operational Campaign

Israel’s renewed military presence in southern Lebanon puts an old military problem back in view: Where should a force establish bases?...

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Jangoulun Singsit • Army Technology

Army’s Extended-Range GMLRS Towards Production

U.S. Army Milestone C approval follows operational tests of the 150km rocket from an M270A2 launcher....

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Austin Campbell • Task & Purpose

Army Wants To Test and Field New Drone Defenses in Under Six Months

The Army will test drone defense systems in Morocco next spring that it plans to field within 180 days...

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Anastasia Obis • Federal News Network

Army Cyber Command Builds Agentic Workforce

Army Cyber Command is expanding its use of artificial intelligence in cyber operations by building out its agentic workforce...

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