Russian President Vladimir Putin said March 13 he didn’t support an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, calling for more discussion on a permanent end to the war as Moscow’s army made rapid gains toward expelling Kyiv’s forces from its Kursk region.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “disestablishing” the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, a key office responsible for high-level strategic analysis, according to a memo obtained by Breaking Defense. ... However, it appears ONA will live on in some manner: The memo directs the deputy secretary of defense to provide a plan in 30 days to rebuild the office in a manner “consistent with [Hegseth’s] priorities.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of military standards, including physical fitness, body composition and grooming. It's a review Hegseth promised during his confirmation hearing when questioned about his statements he’s made that military standards have eroded.
Pentagon leaders plan to roll out their recommended cuts to military spending alongside their budget request for fiscal 2026, the Defense Department indicated in a newly released letter to Congress. The letter, addressed to House Armed Services Chair Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., and dated March 5, states that Congress will be informed of the results of the so-called budget relook—which called for an internal realignment of 8 percent of the Defense Department’s budget—as the president’s spending request is made public in the coming weeks.
All of the remaining migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been moved to Louisiana over the last two days, according to a U.S. official. In late January, President Donald Trump announced he was signing an executive order “to instruct the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.” But since then, the number of migrants sent to be temporarily held there has only reached the low hundreds, and now the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security are discussing whether to make further use of the base.
A federal judge March 13 ordered White House officials to reinstate thousands of probationary workers who were dismissed in mass firings across multiple agencies, including nearly 8,000 individuals working at the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
The U.S. Air Force’s goal has been to finish re-engining the last of its fleet of 76 B-52 bombers by 2035, but this schedule might now slip to the following year. This would extend the total time between the original Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) contract award and the completion of the upgrade work to around 15 years.
As advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities proliferate, the Air Force is using a series of capstone events in 2025 to serve as a proving ground for how the technology can be incorporated into future battle management operations.
Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies plans to leverage artificial intelligence partnerships to enhance the Pentagon’s ambitious Golden Dome missile defense initiative, a senior executive said. ... L3Harris, which has secured over $2 billion in missile-tracking satellite contracts from the Space Force’s Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency, intends to incorporate AI and machine learning (ML) technologies developed through partnerships with Palantir Technologies and Shield AI into the program’s framework.
The U.S. Air Force wants to recapitalize its executive airlift fleet with a single platform as it faces reduced availability on its current aircraft, and in the meantime still hopes to buy the first militarized version of the Boeing 737 MAX.
Last year, we began publishing a series of articles about the best war movies of all time curated from Military.com readers’ recommendations. We dove into your suggestions spanning World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, as well as rarely seen war movies. Of course, after reading such fantastic recommendations, we couldn’t help but wonder about the war films that make you cringe, roll your eyes, or throw popcorn at the screen.
