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Michael Peck, Defense News Spurred on by the threat of unmanned boats and small drones in contested waters such as the Persian Gulf, the

Mike Cherney, WSJ The collapsed wreckage of the Oryoku Maru has made it impossible for the U.S. to bring home the remains of hundreds of Americans—until now Source link

NextGenDef The autonomous platform enables drones to launch and recover from moving ground vehicles without human intervention. Source link

China’s military pressure on Taiwan remained generally stable in the first half of 2026, with no major escalation in military aircraft or naval vessel activity. Tensions ran lower than at the end of 2025. This owes largely to the multiple opportunities for direct meetings that the U.S. and Chinese leaders arranged in 2026. For example, during the mid-May 2026 summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, from May 13 to 17, daily sorties by Chinese military aircraft detected around Taiwan fell to an average of three, with zero sorties on both May 14 and May 15. By comparison, the daily…

Alan T. Dugger, RealClearDefense The next era in great power space competition is not a new race to the Moon. Source link

We live in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. The conflict in the Middle East has not resolved and its effects will last for months, if not years. The Iran-U.S. clashes have transformed into something that strains supply chains, reduces crop yields, rewrites regional politics, and concentrates attention on near-term stability at the expense of the big global challenges. The decisions by the Trump administration to retreat from the commitments and frameworks of global climate action have created a leadership void that is felt most acutely not in Washington or Brussels, but in the low-lying islands of the Pacific, in the…

Peter Huessy, RealClearDefense A number of Democratic Socialists of America party members have been campaigning on defunding the U.S. military. Source link

“My womb cannot give birth to the knife that will one day stab me.” Over the past couple of years, this line has spread widely across China’s social media. It is almost always presented as something “Hannü” (韩女, literally “Korean women” in Chinese).  Whether the quote actually originated in South Korea – or how widely it is known there – is impossible to verify. Yet its factual origins have become almost beside the point. The quote resonates with many Chinese feminist internet users because it expresses a radical refusal of motherhood in response to male violence. Rather than risk giving…

Naval News Congress made its desire for a massive torpedo inventory and production review known in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2027 Source link

This week the 15th Singapore-Australia Joint Ministerial Committee (SAJMC) was held in Adelaide, South Australia. The SAJMC is held every two years and brings together senior ministers from both governments to coordinate cooperation across the full spectrum of the relationship, rather than focusing on a single policy area. This year, it was attended by both countries’ respective ministers for foreign affairs, defense, and trade.  The centerpiece of the discussions was the signing of a new Protocol on Economic Resilience and Essential Supplies. This was a signal that both countries are viewing their national security now not solely in terms of…