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Myanmar’s foreign minister yesterday met with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the first time in five years, in an effort ​to revive a regional peace initiative intended to resolve the country’s civil war. At a summit in May, the 11-nation bloc agreed to an informal meeting with Tin Maung Swe, the foreign minister of Myanmar’s new military-backed civilian government, which took office in April. Since then, the new government has launched a campaign to normalize its relationships with its major neighbors, including ASEAN. The bloc has excluded Myanmar from the bloc’s summits since late…

The cloud connectivity that makes big AI models work is also the reason they won’t work in war. As the Marine Corps explores ways to bring AI tools to the battlefield, it is looking at one software company’s proposal to keep troops computing when broader access gets cut off.Ditto will announce Monday that the Marines’ Project Dynamis will evaluate their technology for turning radios, cell phones, even drones, into a local network that can keep data flowing and AI tools running locally when cloud access disappears.“Ditto’s position is that we do not leverage a server-client model,” Eric Hanft, Ditto’s senior…

Gentex HGU-56/P rotary-wing helmets. Credit: © Gentex Corporation. The US Army Contracting Command – Redstone has awarded Gentex a five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide rotary-wing helmet systems.   The contract, managed and funded by Product Manager Air Warrior (PdM Air Warrior), has a maximum value of approximately $44.8m over its duration.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more It covers the HGU-56/P helmet system, Apache Helmet Assemblies, spare parts, and upgrade kits.   Gentex stated that the agreement aims to ensure continued…

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died on Saturday night of a “brief and sudden illness,” his office announced early Sunday.“Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period,” the statement added.Graham, who had just turned 71 on Thursday, was a close ally of President Donald Trump and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. In June, he defeated five Republican challengers in the Senate primary in South Carolina and was to face Democrat Annie Andrews in the general election.Trump, on social media, called Graham “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known.”“He was…

Operation Shaban, Pakistan’s renewed counterinsurgency (COIN) and counter-terrorism (CT) surge, has put the Pakistan Army Aviation Corps (PAA) back into sustained, large-scale combat employment for the first time in a decade – and, not least, with an open-ended timeline. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistan Army’s press wing, describes the ongoing COIN/CT campaign in Balochistan as a “large-scale air and ground offensive” that will continue indefinitely. Currently, the campaign operates across two theatres against two separate insurgencies – i.e., the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in the south, around Lasbela and Khuzdar, and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the north, around Ziarat.…

Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 1 engagements. Credit: DVIDS. The Nato Summit in Ankara saw 12 allies commit $50bn to accelerate existing deep strike projects Ukraine’s strike campaign inside Russia leverages homegrown cruise missiles, such as the FP-5 Flamingo The UK will lead the new initative since the country already serves as a participant in numerous deep strike partnerships The ability to disrupt an adversary’s centre of gravity – significant enablers and assets beyond the reach of frontline combat – is not new, and Nato allies are realising that this is a capability gap across the continent. Historically, artillery barrages…

On 08 July 2026, Ukraine and Germany signed an implementation agreement to jointly produce the BARS, a jet-powered long-range strike weapon that Ukraine has used to target deep inside Russia, including Moscow. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius signed the agreement on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara. According to Sybiha, the agreement resulted from work carried out by the two countries’ respective defence ministries under Germany’s “Build with Ukraine” initiative. Germany will finance production through the first phase of the project, and every unit built under the agreement will go to Ukraine’s…

Home › Pakistan Army News › Operation Shaban: A Timeline of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Efforts in Balochistan Pakistan Army News Pakistani security forces are pressing Operation Shaban, a joint Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps and Balochistan Police offensive running against the TTP around Ziarat and the BLA around Lasbela and Khuzdar. Operation Shaban is a joint offensive by the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan and the Balochistan Police, launched in early July 2026 after a wave of attacks across the province. It is running on two fronts: against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Pashtun-majority north around Ziarat, and against the…

The WarZone The Air Force has made a formal decision about how the B-21 will be crewed as it pushes to start fielding the bombers next year. Source link

Global Def. Two U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers demonstrated rapid hot-pit refueling at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in a Bomber Task Force operation highlighted by U.S…. Source link