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The US draws down some troops on NATO’s eastern flank

October 30, 2025
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, Romania’s defense ministry said on Wednesday. The U.S. Army later confirmed the move, but denied it was a sign of lessened commitment to NATO. Depending on operations and exercises…
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To coordinate strikes from space, US needs space JTACs, experts argue

October 29, 2025
Not long after airplanes were first used in war, armies realized that close air support required specialists on the ground to coordinate with the pilots. Hence the advent of forward air controllers, and later the U.S. military’s Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, or JTACs. But if you need JTACs to call in air strikes, and space-based weapons are becoming a reality, then don’t you also need…
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US to deploy USS Gerald R. Ford to Latin America

October 28, 2025
The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to…
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KNDS sees ‘excellent’ chances to win US Army artillery competition

October 28, 2025
CANJUERS, France — KNDS, the French-German maker of land armaments, considers its Caesar howitzer has “excellent chances” to win a U.S. Army artillery competition to replace the M777, according to the executive in charge of marketing the truck-mounted 155 millimeter cannon. The Caesar enjoys a strong reputation among American artillery crews, who saw the gun in action in Iraq and…
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Why Army logistics need to think like combat units to survive drones

October 27, 2025
The Russia-Ukraine war has been a drone operator’s dream and a quartermaster’s nightmare. Supply trucks and depots have been pounded by a nearly endless stream of drones and long-range munitions. Resupply of front-line units means running a gauntlet of fire. For the first time since World War II, U.S. Army logisticians must contemplate a grim future where supply units no longer have the luxury…
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