President Trump called for the U.S. to take long-term control of Gaza and for nearly two million Palestinian residents to permanently leave for neighboring countries, a break with decades of U.S. policy that left the idea of a Palestinian state in tatters.
The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay landed in Cuba on Feb. 4, according to a U.S. official. It was the first step in an expected surge in the number of migrants sent to the U.S. naval base, which for decades was primarily used to detain foreigners associated with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Marine Corps plans to double its buy of the carrier-borne F-35C variant and scale back its buy of the short-takeoff-vertical-landing F-35B, according to a new aviation plan from the service. The service’s total F-35 buy of 420 aircraft remains unchanged, but the service will now buy 280 F-35Bs instead of the planned 353 jets, and 140 F-35Cs instead of the planned 67 jets, according to the 2025 Marine Aviation Plan.
Space technology startup True Anomaly has appointed former Pentagon official Frank Calvelli to its board of directors, the company announced Feb. 4. The move follows the recent hiring of another former defense official, Stephen Kitay, as senior vice president, underscoring the company’s push into the defense sector.
As the Philippines beefs up its defensive posture, pivoting from internal security to territorial defense, the government has lined up a series of acquisitions in line with the new plans.
North Korea’s test launch of a “strategic” underwater-launched cruise missile within a week of President Donald Trump’s inauguration brought back into the spotlight a key geopolitical relationship from Trump’s first term: How he will approach North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
U.S. Special Operations Command’s acquisition, technology and logistics directorate plans to evaluate new solutions from industry to help commandos extract and analyze critical data from a variety of systems.
The shift in U.S. policy would be, in the words of a former US official involved in nuclear operations, a “big change,” one that a bevy of experts interviewed by Breaking Defense say raises questions about the stability of nuclear arms control, the basic feasibility of such a plan and, particularly, how it will change the balance of power in space.
The U.S. Department of Defense has disclosed that it’s still unclear about the lethal effects of the hypersonic missile that’s at the center of the Army’s Dark Eagle Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), which will arm the Navy’s Zumwalt class stealth destroyers and future Block V Virginia class submarines.
Doug Collins, an Air Force Reserve colonel, chaplain, and Iraq War veteran, was confirmed on Feb. 4 as the next secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in a 72-23 Senate vote. In addition to his Air Force service, Collins is also a Navy veteran, Baptist minister, and former congressman.
