Americas
Dead in the Water: USS Benfold Adrift for Four Days in the South China Sea
A US Navy destroyer, USS Benfold suffered from power loss and driftedfor four days in the South China Sea last month,...
America Picks Its Fights: Inside the New National Security Science and Technology Strategy
The White House no longer wants America chasing a lead in every technology at once. In its new National Security Science...
Orca XLUUV Completes 1,852km Uncrewed Patrol Across the Pacific
The US Navy has quietly confirmed its longest robotic submarine patrol to date, the Orca XLUUV, and the Pentagon isn't saying...
No US Aircraft Carrier in Asia as Iran War Strains the Fleet
For the first time in months, the western Pacific has US Aircraft Carrier on station. The USS George Washington sailed west...
US Cannot Stop a Drone Swarm at Home, Top General Admits
NORTHCOM's deputy commander says America lacks both the sensors to see an attack and the weapons to stop it. Marco Rubio,...
Trump Orders America’s First New Naval Shipyard in 80 Years as China’s Fleet Races Ahead
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to build a fifth public naval shipyard, the first the United States has added...
Report: CIA Ran Covert Drone Campaign Against Ecuadorian Fishing Boats Near Galápagos
A secret CIA programme, not the Pentagon's publicly acknowledged strikes, was behind a string of drone attacks on three Ecuadorian fishing...
US–Japan Deep Sea Mine to Break China’s Rare Earth Grip
Washington and Tokyo are preparing to dig the deepest mine ever attempted — almost six kilometres beneath the Pacific, in mud...
Golden Dome Opens Its Doors to Industry, but the Money May Run Out First
The United States Department of War opened a new digital front door to private industry on 11 August, aiming to speed...
Chinese National Arrested in Saipan Over US Military Modem Plot
A Chinese national who once warned his own supplier that American soil was too dangerous for a meeting has pleaded guilty...
Empty Magazines: How One War Broke America’s Three-Theatre Promise
America has promised for eighty years to defend Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific all at once. A single war...
Catering Truck, Decoy Jet: How Trump Slipped Out of Turkey
President Donald Trump left Turkey last month hidden inside an airport catering truck, then flew on to Britain aboard a third...
