Aerospace America • 25th August 2025

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...

Splinter • 20th August 2025

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.

Global Defence Technology • 19th August 2025

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.

Splinter • 30th July 2025

“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.

Splinter • 23rd July 2025

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.

Aerospace America • 21st July 2025

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.

Foreign Policy • 8th July 2025

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.

Aerospace America • 1st July 2025

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.