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Republicans fuming at Hegseth as war costs build

Some lawmakers are resisting the Pentagon chief’s budget requests amid concerns over his leadership.

United States · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
UK foils suspected attack on air base used to strike Iran

British authorities held five men suspected of plotting an attack on a UK airfield, with investigators reportedly believ...

United Kingdom · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Collective Defense in an Era of Tokens and Data Links

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Adm. Pierre Vandier, returns to the studio to discuss how the alliance i...

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Speed to Fielding Is Not Speed to Combat Power

I spent more than 20 years in U.S. Army air defense, much of it in cramped control stations where the difference between...

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Indonesia Finally Has Its Aircraft Carrier. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Following a controversial acquisition, the most pressing question is whether and how Indonesia can convert the vessel in...

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
China Conducts Military Exercise in South China Sea After Confrontation at Disputed Shoal

The "provisional understanding" between Beijing and Manila over the Philippine resupply of Second Thomas Shoal appears t...

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Israel wants US-led force to disarm Lebanon's Hezbollah

Fearing a security vacuum if UN peacekeepers leave southern Lebanon when their mandate expires December 31, the Lebanese...

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and its allies must scale together for a new era of war.

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Japan Is Giving the United States a Chance in Asia

But Washington risks missing out.

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Bookshelf: China’s new tech titans

China’s leading tech companies are no longer the copycats of yesteryear. Contrary to many perceptions in the West, they ...

No location · Sep 28, 2026 · Wedgetail
Revolting for the CCP: seizing Taiwan could drive Japan to nuclear weapons

Potential Japanese acquisition of nuclear weapons is an under-appreciated deterrent to a Chinese attempt at seizing Taiw...

No location · Sep 27, 2026 · Wedgetail
HII FF(X) Patrol Frigate Program Progressing as Navy Considers Foreign Options

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Both U.S. and foreign designs for the next small-surface combatant are under consideration after t...

Virginia Beach, United States · Sep 27, 2026 · Wedgetail
Taiwan's largest e-scooter maker sets up battery-swap stations in Vietnam

At least three Gogoro battery-swap stations have been installed in Ho Chi Minh City over the past week as the Taiwanese ...

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Sep 26, 2026 · Wedgetail
Braw in The Spectator on the West’s readiness for an undersea war

On September 26, Elisabeth Braw was published in The Spectator in an article discussing the West’s preparedness for an u...

No location · Sep 26, 2026 · Wedgetail
China launches direct shipping route to Mekong Delta's largest city via new river-to-sea canal

A new container shipping route connecting Nanning Port in China's Guangxi Province to Cai Cui Port in Can Tho, the large...

Can Tho, Vietnam · Sep 26, 2026 · Wedgetail
Polish defense official says US has decided to establish a base in Poland

But the Pentagon declined to confirm a decision about Warsaw's longtime goal.

Warsaw, Poland · Sep 26, 2026 · Wedgetail
Anthropic loses legal fight to shed DOD's designation as a 'supply-chain risk'

The label is more typically assigned to companies suspected of ties to adversarial governments.

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Navy’s public shipyards will take more decades to repair, GAO says

A new report calls for more Congressional oversight of the massive construction projects.

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
Navy Establishes New Deputy Chief Of Naval Operations to Support Failing Shore Infrastructure

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Navy shore infrastructure will be in failing condition by 2037 if the sea service continues to us...

Washington, United States · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
Hoping to push the US away, Iran’s strategy is to go on the offensive

Nearly seven months after being attacked, an emboldened Iran is seeking to end the war on its terms. That means forcing ...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
Chinese Cutters, Warships Block Philippine Resupply Mission to Second Thomas Shoal

Chinese warships and cutters blocked a Philippine resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal on Thursday in the most signif...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
USNI News Western Pacific Pulse: Sept. 25, 2026

 The following is a summary of major ship movements and exercises in the Western Pacific over the last week. In U.S. 7...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea’s Ukraine POWs Are Now in South Korea. What Comes Next?

Both the South Korean government and the two former soldiers face an unprecedented resettlement process.

Seoul, South Korea · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Militarization of Outer Space: Chinese Infrastructure in the Global South

Projects developed within bilateral frameworks could form an international infrastructure that provides China with opera...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
A seven-day proposal to reopen Hormuz is on the table

The proposal builds on an earlier agreement to extend a ceasefire, which collapsed in July.

strait-of-hormuz · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
Tracing the Future Soldier’s Tech Stack

Movies, shows, and books have long been at the forefront of imagining the future of war. If you were to picture the “fut...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea’s Irregular Warfare After Ukraine

Pyongyang has a long history of conducting irregular warfare and asymmetric operations: Look no further than the 1968 Bl...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
To secure frontier AI access, Australia’s best bet is a coalition of the dependent

At Davos this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said ‘middle powers must act together because if you are not at ...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
Vietnam, Canada Announce Establishment of Strategic Partnership

As middle powers reliant on international order that is in a state of disarray, Hanoi and Ottawa believe they have a lot...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Pentagon gets flocked in a no-bid contract. What could go wrong?

As the headquarters to the U.S. military, the Pentagon is surrounded by billions of dollars worth of surveillance and se...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Coming Taiwan Crisis

Use today’s calm to prepare for the next perfect storm.

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
To deter China, we need a global alliance of democracies

There is a distinct possibility of an enormous war breaking out in the next few years over a Chinese attempt to seize Ta...

No location · Sep 25, 2026 · Wedgetail
How to Reach an AI Arms Control Deal With China

Trump’s meeting with Xi in Washington has intensified pressure to pursue a U.S.-China deal on artificial intelligence (A...

No location · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
‘We Absolutely Need to Change,’ Says New Navy Maintenance Head

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Not quite two months on the job, a submariner turned head of the Navy’s vast maintenance operation...

Virginia Beach, United States · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
Unpacking the IG Report on the Iran War

The Net Assessment crew discuss the costs of the Iran War. The post Unpacking the IG Report on the Iran War appeared fir...

No location · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
India’s relationship with China should be understood sector-by-sector

Over the past few months, New Delhi’s relations with Beijing have improved. It would be a mistake to read this as a sign...

No location · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
Autonomous Aircraft Executes Mission Plan in Collaborative Tool Test, Navy Says

The U.S Navy recently demonstrated that an autonomous aircraft can receive a mission plan and execute that mission as pa...

No location · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
China’s Gwadar gamble isn’t paying off

An attempted shortcut around the Malacca Strait has left a port without profit or security.

No location · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
Delivered to the Wrong Address? F-35 Parts Re-routed to Hong Kong

The F-35 is a supremely advanced fighter aircraft with many proprietary components that would be of immense value to sev...

No location · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail
UAE launches new freight rail service connecting Fujairah with Abu Dhabi

Three times a week, Etihad Rail will move containers about 200 kilometers from the port on the UAE’s Gulf of Oman coast ...

Fujairah, United Arab Emirates · Sep 24, 2026 · Wedgetail

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