Israel Launches Coordinated Campaign to Steer AI Chatbot Responses on the Gaza Conflict
Israel has mounted a systematic effort to influence how artificial intelligence chatbots respond to questions about the war in Gaza...
Year: 2026
Fitness App Strava Is Quietly Mapping the Footprints of American Forces Overseas — Again
A fitness tracking application is again exposing the movements and locations of American military personnel at overseas installations, reviving a...
SPACECOM Pushes to Expand Ground-Station Networks While Targeting Enemy Infrastructure in Orbit
U.S. Space Command is pursuing a dual-track strategy: spreading its own ground-based satellite control infrastructure across more locations to reduce...
Reverting to Steam Catapults Could Haunt the Navy for Decades
A proposal to abandon the Navy's electromagnetic launch system on future aircraft carriers and return to steam catapult technology carries...
How the Israel Air Force Rebuilt a Written-Off F-15 Into a Flying Jet
A specialized Israel Air Force maintenance unit has accomplished what Boeing's engineers and standard military logistics doctrine would have deemed...
US Navy Carrier Fleet Faces a Structural Readiness Crisis With No Near-Term Solution in Sight
The United States Navy's aircraft carrier fleet is confronting a readiness problem that years of deferred maintenance, strained shipyard capacity,...
Microsoft Scales Back China Operations as Geopolitical Pressure Reshapes Big Tech’s Asia Strategy
Microsoft is pulling back from China in ways that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, according to...
Engineering Failure Left a US Navy Destroyer Adrift in Contested South China Sea Waters for Four Days
USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was left unable to maneuver under its own power for approximately four days...
Israel Plans to Lock In Elevated Defense Spending — at a Steep Cost to Civilian Services
Israel's government is moving to institutionalize a significantly higher defense budget in the years ahead, according to reporting by Calcalist,...
Fewer US Warships Are Transiting the Taiwan Strait — and That Shift Is Drawing Scrutiny
The United States Navy is sailing through the Taiwan Strait less frequently than it once did, a trend that is...
