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Senate Democrats Vote Against Defense
They won't even vote to pass a military funding bill they supported in committee.
10/18/25Read it on The Wall Street JournalDemocrats May Defund the Troops
The first Democratic big idea is to take the government budget hostage to defund U.S. troops in the middle of a naval blockade in the Middle East....
4d agoRead it on The Wall Street JournalDemocrat Congress Likely To Target Trump Defense Plans
... Democrats are expected major cutbacks and cancellations of Trump administration defense policies and programs....
5d agoRead it on The Washington TimesPentagon Plans for Death of Trump’s Record Military Budget
The administration insists it has support for a $1.5 trillion defense budget. Officials are privately planning for less....
1w agoRead it on PoliticoCoalition Casts Wildfire Prevention as a Military Readiness Issue
More than 40 organizations have banded together to push for a wildfire prevention amendment they want to see added to this fiscal year’s National...
3w agoRead it on Stars and StripesEven by Recent Standards, This Year's Continuing Resolution Is a Disaster
Regardless of the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections, Congress must immediately pivot to securing stable funding for the military once they...
3w agoRead it on The National InterestBuilding an Arsenal That Survives the Tenth Salvo
Pentagon Backfills $200 Million for MV-75 Program
The Pentagon, two days before the fiscal year ended, applied $200 million in reprogramming funding for the Bell MV-75 program as Textron was forced...
10/14/26Read it on Aviation Week
The Defense Department's Reorganization Problem Comes to Fightertown
After Hurricane Katrina exposed serious weaknesses in the federal emergency response, government leaders questioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s role within the Department of Homeland Security. Congress responded with the Post-Katrina Act, strengthening FEMA’s role and giving the agency greater independence. The changes improved FEMA’s position, while the wider response showed how much work remained to align authority, plans, and operations.
FEMA’s experience offers a lesson for Defense leaders: a new organization can help when leaders define the problem, assign authority, and measure results. Leaders should weigh those needs against the cost and disruption of a reorganization before changing reporting lines or creating new offices.
Europe Is Rearming — and U.S. Wall Street is Writing the Checks
The global defense industry appears to be entering a period of structural transformation
10/12/26Read it on The EurAsian Times
The Gulf of Finland’s Forgotten Islands
By Ben Poulin • RealClearDefense
NATO’s New Spending Pledge Must Buy Real Energy Resilience
By Chuck Dockery • RealClearDefense
The Army Needs a Data Logistics Discipline Before the Next Surge
By Steve Ferenzi • RealClearDefense
2949 Marine Prisoners, Hostages, and Peacetime Governmental Detainees Since Our Corps' Founding
By Jon Couch • RealClearDefense
America Must Win the Biotech Race Against China
By Rob Maness • RealClearDefense
U.S. Air Force To Arm C-17 Cargo Aircraft With Cruise Missiles
By C. Jones, Defence Blog
How Marine Vet Ernest Langdon Became a Renowned Shooter & Gunsmith
By WATM
In First, Two CCAs Fly Air Combat Maneuvers Using Autonomy Software
By A&SF
Space Force Launches Mission Operations Center
By Jon Harper, DefenseScoop
Pentagon Mulls Placing Fleet of Military Satellites Around the Moon
By Ars Technica