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The deputy secretary of defense outlined guidelines for how the Pentagon will handle its mass amounts of data as it moves toward data-driven warfare.

By RACHAEL RILEY | The Fayetteville Observer | Published: May 11, 2021 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — Soldiers with the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command said goodbye to the commands fifth chief warrant officer as it welcomed its sixth Friday. Col. Philip Ryan, the units commander, oversaw the change of responsibility from Chief Warrant Officer 5 David Greenwood to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Wade Ziegler during a ceremony held Thursday at Fort Bragg. The chief warrant...

Share May 10, 2021 Seeking a gap-filler for the RQ-1 in 2006, Special Operations Command fielded the U-28 by acquiring used PC-12s from the civilian market. Credit: Staff Sgt. Victor J. Caputo/U.S. Air Force Starting. Stopping. Restarting. And stopping again. For over a decade, the U.S. Defense Department’s attempts to field a light attack aircraft fit into this familiar, futile pattern. The latest iteration—Special Operations Command’s Armed Overwatch program—hopes ...

SHARE US special forces troops posed as airport maintenance staff at Baghdad Airport to co-ordinate the air strike that assassinated Iran’s top commander, Qassem Suleimani, a report says. They were joined on the ground by Kurdish special force soldiers and assisted by remote help from phone-tracking experts in Israel, it is claimed. These leaked revelations, released in a new investigation on Saturday by Yahoo News, provide an insider account of the assassination on January 3 last year. Thre...

Soldiers with the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command said goodbye to the command’s fifth chief warrant officer as it welcomed its sixth Friday.   Col. Philip Ryan, the units commander, oversaw the change of responsibility from Chief Warrant Officer 5 David Greenwood to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Wade Ziegler during a ceremony held Thursday at Fort Bragg.   The chief warrant officer spot was established in 2005  when Chief Warrant Officer 5 Karl Maier was appointed to the 160...

Monday, 10 May, 2021 - 05:45 A burning vehicle at Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, in which Qassem Soleimani was killed January 3, 2020. (Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP) London - Asharq Al-Awsat Fifteen current and former American officials revealed to Yahoo News the details of the Trump administration’s covert plan to eliminate Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, i...

Israel reportedly shared three cell phone numbers used by Qasem Soleimani with U.S. intelligence in the hours before American drones unleashed Hellfire missiles on the Iranian General last year.

43 (STUTTGART) U.S. Naval Special Warfare Operators deployed to Croatia, Germany, Hungary, and Romania for two special operations forces exercises, May 3-14, 2021. Trojan Footprint 21, the premier annual SOF exercise led by Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), utilized SEAL and Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC) teams in Romania and the Black Sea to conduct various training with SOF units from Georgia, Spain, and Romania. “We appreciate the opportunity to tr...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot) Israel shared with the United States three cellphone numbers of Iranian al-Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani in the hours before he was killed last January in a US drone strike in Baghdad, according to Yahoo News. The Saturday report, citing US military and intelligence officials, said Israel provided information to the US military as the hit operation was already underway, with Americ...

United States Africa Command News by Section History of U.S. Africa Command U.S. Africa Command began initial operations Oct. 1, 2007, and became fully operational Oct. 1, 2008. For the past 13 years, U.S. Africa Command has worked with African partners for a secure, stable, and prosperous Africa. In response to our expanding partnerships and interests on the African continent, the U.S. established AFRICOM in 2007. The single most important focus then, as it is t...