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Air Force Col. Jason Daniels is now commander of the 24th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field. It is the only Air Force Special Tactics wing.

As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology becomes ever cheaper and more accessible, the threat of armed and GPS-guided drones is becoming a serious problem for U.S. forces in theater. In the past few months, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have used small drones armed with explosives to attack Iraqi military bases housing U.S. forces several times, and the threat posed by such UAVs is only likely to grow in the months and years to come. Experts from MEI's Defense & Security Program ...

The mother of all fly-ins, EAAs annual AirVenture airshow-convention is slated to go forward at Oshkosh, Wisconsin starting July 26th. Running at full capacity, it heralds a return to in-person aviation events.

USSOCOM advances the Leidos team’s, including Paramount Group USA and Vertex Aerospace, Bronco II aircraft to the next phase of development.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who made his first public appearance in around a month last week, appears to have lost a significant amount of weight, fanning speculation among the nuclear-armed countrys watchers about his health.

Nightforce Optics has announced another variant of the ATACR product line has been selected to fill the Ranging - Variable Power Scope (R-VPS) component of the Miniature Aiming Systems - Day Optic (MAS-D) Program.

In early 2006, I sat in the Pashtun tribal areas on the Af/Pak border. When not rinsing grit out of my teeth from the thick fog in the air, I awaited information from capricious “allies,” on whether their informant could identify a senior al Qaeda leader who I’ll call “The Moroccan.” At the time, he was al Qaeda’s regional operational commander and well worth removing from the board. I lusted for certainty on the whereabouts of the Moroccan. He remained stubbornly elusive, while I c...

For US special-operations units, the cyber domain offers more opportunities to understand an adversary, find its weaknesses, and use them against it.

The world-famous despot of the Hermit Kingdom looks considerably slimmer in photos released by state media on June 5, after not being seen in public for nearly a month

Gutfeld! react to the dictators fear that the fashion trends could influence young people and lead to his overthrow North Korea watchers are eager to get the skinny on leader Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss — which some speculate might be a sign of deteriorating health. The famously corpulent despot looked noticeably slimmer in photos released by state media Saturday — after not being seen publicly for a month, the Guardian reported. South Korea-based NK News, which analyzed photos of...