Will Trump Bomb Iran Again?
A weeks-long communications blackout continues in Iran, but the world is beginning to piece together the brutality of the Iranian regime’s protest crackdown.
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2026 will test U.S. Air Force’s bet on drone wingmen
The Air Force this year is planning to take a significant step forward on its effort to establish a fleet of “loyal wingman” drones that would fly alongside crewed fighter jets by the end of the decade.
America’s New Gilded Age
Last September, leaders of the top U.S. tech firms gathered for a White House dinner.
Shouldering the burden - Global Defence Technology | Issue 156 | December 2025
"Ounces equal pounds, and pounds equal pain,” as the saying goes in the US Army, as shorthand for the experience of shouldering the fighting load, the mission-essential items a soldier wears and carries.
Healing Hearts, Souls, and Minds
The Donut Dollies rarely thought about the danger – maybe once or twice, during incoming fire, or when a pilot had to autorotate to land a helicopter. But they got used to it quickly in Vietnam.
What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work?
Building on the momentum of consumer boycotts against Target and other companies earlier this year, grassroots organizers want American consumers to use their economic power this Thanksgiving weekend to protest the Trump administration’s anti-immigration and anti-DEI crackdowns – and the big corporations that won’t oppose them.
Next-generation ‘doomsday planes’ move closer to reality
The E-4B “Nightwatch” is the aircraft the United States never wants to use: a militarized Boeing 747-200 that can turn into a mobile command-and-control for the president and senior military officials if the country comes under nuclear attack.
Reformation Act: US plots acquisition change - Global Defence Technology | Issue 155 | October 2025
This July, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' ASCEND conference in Las Vegas, the United States Space Force’s Lt. General Philip Garrant was asked about his vision for equipping the Guardians of the future.
Why Are We Bombing Drug Boats?
The United States apparently bombed a third suspected drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. “We knocked off, actually, three boats – not two – but you saw two,” Trump told reporters last week.
That the United States may have committed a third, almost certainly illegal lethal strike on a suspected drug boat without bothering to provide much supporting evidence or justification underscores just how brazen and expansive the administration’s so-called war on drugs has been. The United States has historic...
That the United States may have committed a third, almost certainly illegal lethal strike on a suspected drug boat without bothering to provide much supporting evidence or justification underscores just how brazen and expansive the administration’s so-called war on drugs has been. The United States has historic...
An uncertain future for Space Futures Command
In July, the Space Force led its largest exercise to date, “Resolute 25,” which sought to demonstrate how the U.S. and its allies would “operate in a contested, dynamic environment against high-end threats on short notice,” according to a press release.
The warfighting simulation incorporated “space-based and space-enabled capabilities,” including space electromagnetic and orbital warfare. These are too...
The warfighting simulation incorporated “space-based and space-enabled capabilities,” including space electromagnetic and orbital warfare. These are too...
Sure Seems Like a Lot of Traveling for Not All That Much to Happen
President Donald Trump’s thirst for a Nobel Peace Prize generated a burst of diplomatic activity over the past few days around Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Test subject: Pentagon cuts target ODOT&E - Global Defence Technology | Issue 154 | August 2025
In 1983, the United States Congress created the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (ODOT&E), an independent agency to monitor weapons testing at the Pentagon.
“Every Single One of My Patients Is Malnourished”
The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” says a global hunger monitor, saying that one in three people in Gaza are going days without food, and at least 20,000 children are receiving acute malnutrition treatment between April and mid-July.
The U.S. Is Shifting Its Approach to Africa. So Is China.
On July 18, Congress approved a $9 billion rescission package, a reverse rubber stamp of the slash-and-burn spending cuts by the Trump administration.
ANALYSIS: Weighing the cost of the F-47
The F-47, the planned next-generation U.S. stealth fighter jet, will be built to evade adversaries’ air defenses and have a combat radius of 1,000 nautical miles, farther than any other jet in America’s air-fighting arsenal.
USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office for a second term.
Wanted: more eyes in the skies
Picture it: All around you, a blue expanse of sky. Below, a landscape dominated by brown brush where, in the distance, tiny figures stand around a rectangle billowing smoke.
Is It Over?
The United States joined Israel’s war against Iran last Friday, after President Donald Trump ordered strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The Booker dilemma: inside US Army transformation - Global Defence Technology | Issue 153 | June 2025
Officially, the M10 Booker is a ground combat vehicle.
Trump's Ukraine Peace Is a Bust. He Is Still Transforming the War.
In recent days, Russia has bombarded Ukrainian cities with some of the largest air strikes since the start of its invasion three years ago.
Israel Is Starving Gaza
Israel has blocked aid from reaching Gaza since March 2. It has cut off new supplies of food, fuel, and medicine to more than 2 million people for more than two months. Israel is starving Gaza as it continues to bombard it, attacking the remaining infrastructure left that people need to survive, and displacing more than 400,000 civilians since Israel broke the ceasefire in March.
Gavin Kelleher, humanitarian access manager in Gaza with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on a press call wi...
Gavin Kelleher, humanitarian access manager in Gaza with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on a press call wi...
Friends like these: US vs Europe - Global Defence Technology | Issue 152 | April 2025
In March 2025, the outgoing Portuguese Defence Minister questioned his country’s potential purchase of F-35s amid concerns around the United States’s reliability as an ally.
DOGE Destroyed America's Ability to Respond to Myanmar's Disaster
On March 28, a magnitude 7.7-earthquake struck Myanmar (also known as Burma), near Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city.
Golden Dome: Smart strategy or risky business?
Imagine that tensions between the United States and a nuclear-armed adversary are intensifying.
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