Adm. Stephen Koehler, a naval aviator and former commander of 3rd Fleet, assumed command of U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony Thursday in Hawaii. The fleet consists of about 200 ships, 1,500 aircraft and 150,000 uniformed and civilian personnel.
One of the U.S. military’s newest intelligence drones has arrived in Europe as part of the only Navy unmanned patrol squadron’s second detachment.
The sheer availability of Starlink on the black market suggests that its misuse is a systemic global problem, raising questions about the company’s control of a system with clear national security dimensions.
Despite pledges to break economic ties with Russia, the West remains dependent on a Russian metals firm vital to aerospace, raising security concerns.
Alaska-based U.S. soldiers on an exercise in Norway carried out a rare flight over the North Pole and parachuted into the Arctic.
U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are calling on the Air Force to replace a fleet of aging aircrafts at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia, some of which are the only heavy airlift vehicles in the country capable of flying north to the Arctic and south to Antarctica.
The lives of millions of people were upended by natural disasters made worse by climate change, with countries everywhere struggling to cope with billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the WMO’s annual State of the Global Climate report for 2023.
The Navy’s plan to buy fewer ships while accelerating early retirements for others across the fleet has drawn the opening salvos of criticism from at least one member of Congress.
The working assumption among most Russian watchers is that Vladimir Putin will be ruler for life. This longevity may be both an asset and a weakness.
Moscow has worked around sanctions, finding new third parties to supply it with critical military and industrial hardware. Now, the West is trying to increase the reach of its sanctions by digging deeper into Russian supply chains.