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On April 23, U.S. authorities, including the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Department of State, announced coordinated actions targeting Southeast Asian scam centers and cryptocurrency fraud networks. The operation targeted more than financial structures; authorities also seized a Telegram channel allegedly used to recruit human trafficking victims.  Fraud compounds are no longer mere cryptocurrency scams. They are human trafficking hubs where victims are recruited via digital platforms and forced to commit crimes through confinement and violence.  The people who lose money through these scams are not the only victims. Another group is…

Operation Sindoor, launched a year ago, has emerged as a defining military milestone that has not only redrawn India’s response thresholds to cross‑border terrorism but also crystallised several hard‑earned lessons for future warfare.The operation has shifted the calculus from strategic restraint to strategic proactiveness, signalling to adversaries that New Delhi is prepared to respond swiftly, deeply and across multiple domains if confronted by similar threats again.Defence and strategic experts stress that the hardest‑won insights lie in the integration of air power, the pervasive role of drone warfare, and the critical need for robust cyber and communications infrastructure in any future…

Charlie Phelps, MWI Of all the hard facts of war, logistics is the hardest. While strategy may be the art of the possible, what is possible is determined first and foremost by the sinews of… Source link

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard is creating a new Special Missions Command to centralize its deployable specialized forces, the service announced today.   The new command, which is slated for official commissioning in October, establishes a single command to house these elite units. That’s a departure from the existing structure, where the Coast Guard’s two area commanders for the Pacific and the Atlantic currently oversee administrative and operational control over the service’s specialized forces units. “The creation of the Special Missions Command is a vital evolution for our service,” Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Kevin Lunday said in a statement…

The Air Force is in the early stages of improving its command-and-control system for regional air, space, and cyber forces.The Next-Generation Air Operations Center Weapon System effort aims to upgrade the Air Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System to bring AI-powered tools to planners and operators at combatant commands. Since February, the Air Force has released a request for information and two sets of Q&As.The contract is managed by the Air Operations Center Program Office of Kessel Run, the Air Force software factory now housed under the service’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for command, control, communications and battle management. Postings on Sam.gov indicate that the service wants a fast, flexible acquisition plan,…

Illustration of a global network of space-based interceptors under Golden Dome. Credit: Wikideas1/ commons.wikimedia.org (Creative Commons) Anduril Industries said that it will head a group of industry partners to develop space-based interceptors for the US Space Force under the Golden Dome missile defence initiative.   The company, working with partners such as Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National Laboratories, and Voyager Technologies, will develop, test, and deliver systems for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) programme.   Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The SBI programme…

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Rosie Levine – executive director of the U.S.-China Education Trust and member of the USCET Working Group Report “America’s China Talent Challenge: Investing in Deeper American Understanding of China” (2026) – is the 507th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.” Why will the United States face a shortage of China expertise in the next decade and what are the potential consequences?  Through this project’s consultation with over 50 organizations with a stake…

The Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), a key arm of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is advancing a next-generation navigation and guidance electronics package aimed at significantly improving missile accuracy and reliability.This initiative represents a critical step in India’s drive towards indigenous defence technologies, ensuring that future missile systems are equipped with cutting-edge electronics tailored for precision and resilience in contested environments.The package is being designed with a strong emphasis on enhanced guidance, enabling missiles to achieve higher levels of navigation precision. This is particularly important for modern warfare, where accuracy determines operational effectiveness and minimises collateral…

Bonnie Rushing, et al., SWJ The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) directs the Secretary of War to provide a report defining cognitive warfare and narrative intelligence,… Source link

WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman has quietly asked the Federal Trade Commission to remove restrictions on its solid rocket motor business, in a move that competitor Lockheed Martin opposes, setting up a rare regulatory battle between two of the world’s largest defense firms.  The FTC’s decision could have implications not only for the defense industrial base, but for the Pentagon’s race to ramp up the production of missiles and backfill its stockpiles — an endeavor dependent on also ramping up the manufacture of solid rocket motors (SRMs). On April 2, Northrop petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to drop a 2018 consent…