(Reuters) The number of U.S. troops wounded in the war against Iran has risen to about 200, the U.S. military said on Monday, as the conflict entered its third week. Read More |
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(Military Times) President Donald Trump on Monday recast his weekend call for American allies to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz as a test of loyalty rather than a strategic necessity. Read More |
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(Military Times) An Afghan immigrant whose family said he had been evacuated from his home country after working for years with U.S. forces died at a Texas hospital after immigration authorities detained him, according to authorities. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The U.S. military has destroyed more than 100 Iranian naval vessels, and “we aren’t done,” the leader of U.S. Central Command said Monday. Read More |
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(Military Times) A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday that temporarily reinstates a collective bargaining agreement between the Department of Veterans Affairs and its largest employee union. Read More |
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US Strikes in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific |
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(Military Times) Since early September 2025, the U.S. military has conducted strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean in support of what the Pentagon has called continued counternarcotics efforts. Read More |
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(The War Horse) An ongoing timeline of the Trump administration’s actions focusing on the military and veterans. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “wounded and likely disfigured” during a Pentagon briefing that was at times combative and defensive in tone. Read More |
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(The Hill) President Trump said on Sunday the NATO alliance faces a “very bad” future if countries do not answer his call to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. “It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there,” Trump told the Financial Times. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) All commissaries will begin charging shoppers for single-use plastic and paper bags on April 6, to encourage more people to bring in reusable bags, the Defense Commissary Agency said Monday. Read More |
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(Military Times) A woman raising two children was among the six U.S. service members killed last week when a military refueling plane involved in the war with Iran crashed in western Iraq. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) The Pentagon on Saturday identified six airmen killed when their KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq while supporting Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. campaign with Israel against Iran. Read More |
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(Military Times) If there are any boats in the Air Force special warfare training pipeline, you can bet David Goggins will be carrying them. Read More |
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(Military Times) The two-star head of the command responsible for coordinating support for Ukraine left a tube of classified maps behind on a train in Europe, losing control of the sensitive material for 24 hours, a new report from the Department of Defense Inspector General’s office has found. Read More |
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(Defense News) As conflicts around the world deplete stockpiles and strain munitions production, the United States wants to create a research and manufacturing center to boost the production of explosives. Read More |
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(Stars and Stripes) A new Army facility that opened Friday will allow U.S. soldiers across Europe to use high-tech equipment to develop solutions to problems they encounter in the field. Read More |
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(Military Times) As the Navy builds out new career fields focused on operating drone boats and submarines, it’s repurposing special insignia pins taken from other job fields with similar requirements to recognize the work they do. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) The USS Nimitz began its long career stuck in a time warp. It now seems to be finishing the same way, with an official retirement date pushing into the future. Read More |
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(Air & Space Forces Magazine) The Air Force is making it easier for Airmen to take time off around permanent change of station moves, along with several other tweaks to the service’s leave policy captured in a new Department of Air Force Instruction 36-3003. Read More |
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(Defense News) Turkish defense company Baykar announced flight tests of its K2 loitering munition, releasing footage and performance data showing an autonomous swarm formation flying and navigation in GPS-denied environments. Read More |
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(Defense News) Fincantieri is ready to build everything from corvettes and unmanned vessels to ice breakers and cable laying ships for the U.S. government as it rebounds from the cancellation of the Constellation frigate program, a senior official has said. Read More |
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Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Syria |
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(The Wall Street Journal) Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon opens a new front in a widening Middle East war, expanding its campaign against Iran by moving against one of its most powerful regional allies, Hezbollah, and stretching its military across an unprecedented number of conflict zones. Read More |
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(The War Zone) The Israeli Air Force claims that it destroyed the Iranian government’s Airbus A340 in a strike on Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran. Last summer, the aircraft had been part of an exodus of Iranian state-operated airliners to Oman, but its apparent demise now underscores the intensity of the current airstrikes against Iran, which have been systematically removing aircraft of all types from the Iranian inventory. Read More |
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(France 24) Russia launched a rare daytime attack on Kyiv Monday, with AFP journalists reporting air defence batteries shooting down a barrage of projectiles. Authorities said that the attack has so far caused no casualties. Read More |
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(Military Times) An Iranian missile strike damaged five U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, two U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal. Read More |
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(The Associated Press) The United Arab Emirates briefly closed and then reopened its airspace Tuesday, temporarily halting flights in a crucial travel hub, as the country’s military said it was facing incoming attacks from Iran. Read More |
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(Defense News) India secured the safe transit of two Indian flagged carriers carrying liquified petroleum gas through the Strait of Hormuz , which Iran has largely blockaded for commercial shipping as the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran enters its third week. Read More |
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(The Hill) The late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly was wary of his son, newly elected Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, succeeding him, according to U.S. intelligence reports. Read More |
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(Defense News) Norway’s elite soldiers for Arctic warfare swear by an old-fashioned method for staying hidden from drones’ sophisticated sensors: quinzhees, or snow caves, carefully dug by hand. Read More |
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(Military Times) The U.S. military possesses several capabilities that it could wield to combat naval mine warfare in the Strait of Hormuz. Read More |
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(Task & Purpose) It’s not stealthy, it’s getting up there in years and it doesn’t have the payload of fifth-generation fighter jets. Despite that, the MQ-9 Reaper drone system isn’t going to the bone yard. Read More |
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(The Hill) Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger said that President Trump did not adequately prepare the American public for war with Iran, calling that his “biggest mistake” in the lead-up to the conflict. “I would say the biggest mistake is just not preparing the American people for it,” Kinzinger said. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) After the Gulf War’s air campaign concluded in February 1991, U.S. commanders were confident that airpower had destroyed the bulk of Iraq’s Republican Guard before the ground offensive ever began. A subsequent General Accounting Office review found they were wrong and identified why. Read More |
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(Defense News) Surveillance by small, cheap quadcopter drones has made substantial battlefield advances nearly impossible amid Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine. Read More |
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(France 24) Israel’s objectives are based on a more limited but long-term and consequential aim: permanently degrading the military capabilities of Iran and its regional proxies. Ultimately, the success of the campaigns will depend not only on military outcomes but also on internal and regional political developments. Read More |
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(War on the Rocks) Churchill once demanded, “Take this pudding away — it has no theme!” U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle’s new Fighting Instructions presents a similar sort of dish. Read More |
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