Hamas claimed responsibility for a bombing that shook Tel Aviv on Aug. 18 as Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived to promote a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal in Gaza, which he described as potentially a last-ditch chance to restore calm to the Middle East.
The front line in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches for more than 600 miles. Yet roughly speaking, it breaks down into three separate fronts—in Ukraine's north, east, and south—which are all playing out differently.
Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships collided at sea, damaging at least two vessels, in an encounter early Aug. 19 near a new flashpoint in their increasingly alarming confrontations in the disputed South China Sea. Each blamed the other for the collision near Sabina Shoal, a disputed atoll in the Spratly Islands, where Vietnam and Taiwan also have overlapping claims. There were no reports of injuries.
A key test intended to demonstrate the Missile Defense Agency’s Long-Range Discrimination Radar’s capabilities against a live ballistic missile target has been scheduled for 2025 after the original test was stopped a year ago.
The Defense Department and National Nuclear Security Administration have a new supercomputing system focused on biological defense at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Inaugurated on Aug. 1, the system will “provide unique capabilities for large-scale simulation and AI-based modeling for a variety of defensive activities, including bio surveillance, threat characterization, advanced materials development, and accelerated medical countermeasures,” per a readout from DOD spokesperson Robert L. Ditchey II.
An independent U.S. Cyber Force is not just a strategic necessity but an inevitable progression in the evolution of military operations, write Daniel Van Wagenen and Kim Irving, executives at Minerva Cyber Technologies with military cyber experience.
The U.K. has sent its first military spy satellite into space to capture daytime images and videos of the Earth’s surface. The satellite, known as Tyche, is the lead system from the wider £968 million ($1.2 billion) ISTARI program, aimed at delivering a multi-satellite Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) constellation, together with future ground systems, by 2031.
The Missile Defense Agency expects to launch a new sensor designed to discriminate between complex ballistic missile targets by the end of the decade, according to agency director Lt. Gen. Heath Collins. The discriminating space sensor, or DSS, is a key part of MDA’s vision for a space-based missile-tracking layer, Collins told Defense News in a recent interview.
Wallace Amos Jr., known to the world as the founder of the Famous Amos cookie brand, didn’t really enjoy being famous. ... On top of his serial entrepreneurship and tireless advocacy, Amos also served in the U.S. Air Force for four years, spending much of his time in the service at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, a place he would one day return. He died in Honolulu of complications from dementia on Aug. 13, 2024, at age 88.
