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Dan Driscoll resigned as secretary of the Army on Aug. 31, 2026. His departure leaves the Army without a Senate-confirmed civilian leader six months into the war with Iran, its busiest period since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Driscoll’s resignation was reportedly motivated, at least in part, by his frustration with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Earlier in August, Hegseth had blocked the promotions of four Army officers. Since his appointment in January 2025, Hegseth has fired or blocked the promotions of more than 80 admirals and generals. Often, Hegseth has referenced “woke” diversity efforts in his reasoning. One officer who was blocked had written a paper while in graduate school about the impact…

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Russia’s war in Ukraine has generated an extraordinary reservoir of combat experience. NATO has understandably focused on what Moscow has learned: new approaches to unmanned systems, electronic warfare, reconnaissance-strike integration, command-post survivability, air defense, assault operations and logistics.  However, the future Russian threat will depend less on what its forces have learned in Ukraine than on what the Russian military can reproduce elsewhere with different personnel, after casualties, rotation and organizational turnover. A brigade can discover a successful method for dispersing command posts or integrating drones with fires, without the Russian Armed Forces as a whole acquiring that capability. Other…

There is currently an active debate about U.S. policy in the Pacific Islands. Some are saying the U.S. is AWOL in the region. Others have said this is one of the most active times for U.S. engagement, including the Heritage Foundation, which just published a detailed “policy inventory” of announced U.S. activities in the region. What do I think? Let me start in a Pacific Islands way, with a story. In May 2025, I took a China-donated cargo ship from Yap to Woleai atoll, in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Several hundred Micronesians (from babies to grandmothers), five Chinese…

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RAUFOSS, Norway — Norwegian defense firm Nammo is taking its first steps in developing a new prototype rocket motor engine, envisioned as powering a long-range variant of the German-made IRIS-T air defense system, a company official told Breaking Defense. Nammo produces rocket motor engines for other munitions, but “this is a totally new development project for us … [without] that much piggybacking on different things or from previous kinds” of programs, a Nammo program manager said Thursday on the sidelines of the company’s multipurpose symposium. “We will start building [a prototype] as soon as we can.”  At the company’s production…

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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared in person at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time on Wednesday, ahead of his trial for atrocities committed during his violent “war on drugs” campaign. Duterte, 81, has been in the court’s custody since his arrest in the Philippines in March 2025. He faces three charges of crimes against humanity for extrajudicial killings carried out during the anti-drug campaign, a flagship policy of his administration between 2016 and 2022. For all of the pre-trial hearings so far, including his initial appearance in March 2025, Duterte has appeared via video link from…

US Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft. Credit: Faizinraz/Shutterstock.com. The US State Department has given its approval for a possible Foreign Military Sale of up to 48 F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia, with an estimated total cost of $24.3bn.   The move comes amid ongoing security concerns in the Gulf, including recent incidents involving Saudi military aircraft.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Under the proposed arrangement, Saudi Arabia has requested 48 of the advanced fighter jets with conventional…

Indonesian lawmakers have begun debating potential changes to the country’s fiscal deficit ceiling, with several ‌lawmakers arguing yesterday that President Prabowo Subianto’s administration should have the right to exceed the current limit in order to fund its ambitious welfare policies. During a public hearing in Jakarta yesterday, the House of Representatives’ Commission XI debated a series of revisions of the State Finance Law. Passed in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, the law sets a maximum budget deficit of 3 percent of gross domestic product and limits government debt to 60 percent of GDP. Mukhamad Misbakhun, chairman…