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We surely haven’t suffered from a lack of ideas for fixing what ails the federal government. There was DOGE, with its campaign to take a chainsaw to federal employment but which in the end saved little money. The conservative Cato Institute’s analysis concluded that its impact on federal spending was negligible and, in fact, that anyone looking at the long-term trend in federal outlays wouldn’t be able to tell when DOGE started.In a January deposition, former DOGE staffer Nate Cavanaugh was asked, “Did you reduce the federal deficit?” Cavanaugh replied “No, we didn’t.” Never was so much blood shed for such little result.…

Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving are just some of the occasions for when taking a break can lead to some unrivalled binging, but Australian bodybuilder and transformation coach, Anna McManamey-Cashion is not about pointing the finger. Instead, she has three simple tips for getting back on track with your fitness goals, and feeling guilty is not one of them. Most personal trainers get it. You work hard and don’t get enough time to socialize with friends and family. So, when an excuse to let loose arrives, it can often be a time of excess. Thankfully, all is not lost. “Here’s how…

As the Army works to gather and organize data to support battlefield decisions, it has created a task force to help with small, short-term problems—and in the longer term, to shape the service’s overall approach to data management.The Army Data Operations Center went live on April 3, service officials told reporters on Tuesday, and so far its small team of civilian and soldier data and software engineers have received seven requests from different organizations to help deconflict.“It used to be about firepower, but it isn’t really about that anymore,” said Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey, the Army’s chief of staff for…

With its proven reliability and ruggedness, the Subaru Bell 412EPX rises to the occasion under the harshest conditions demanded of public safety and defense.In the world of public safety and defense, where missions demand unwavering performance in the harshest conditions, the Subaru Bell 412EPX stands as a beacon of ruggedness and reliability. Built on decades of proven success, this versatile helicopter is engineered to thrive in austere environments, driving mission success when lives and assets are at stake.Durable Design for Extreme ScenariosThe Subaru Bell 412EPX is a modern advancement of the legendary Huey lineage, a platform that has been tested in…

Somewhere behind the Novodarivka breach point in June 2023, Ukrainian armored formations sat staged and ready. The ammunition was there. The fuel was there. The original concept of operations called for 12 brigades to push through roughly 30 kilometers of frontage, isolate Tokmak within days, and drive south before Russian forces could consolidate. They never moved. The engineers could not open the lane. Without the lane, none of the rest of it mattered.Against prepared defenses, breaching and gap-crossing capacity can decide whether a land force ever gets to test the rest of its campaign design. Much of the serious work…

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Jeffrey E. Stern, an award-winning journalist and author of the newly released The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare, which details the development of Paveway, the precision-guided bomb. We asked him to share his thoughts on the bomb’s history and its role in air campaigns, and the relationship between government, science, and industry. You spent years researching and writing this book about Paveway, a relatively underdiscussed weapon. Why tell this story? I wanted to tell this story in part because Paveway is so underdiscussed. The big…

President Donald Trump’s announcement of a two-week cease-fire on Tuesday night has ended, at least temporarily, the fighting between the United States, Israel, and Iran. But it has done little to resolve the strategic incoherence at the heart of the U.S.-Israeli campaign that neither government has been willing to acknowledge publicly: the two partners have been fighting the same war for fundamentally different reasons. For Israel, the prospect of direct confrontation with the Islamic Republic has loomed large for decades. It has studied the regime with a granularity that Washington has rarely matched. Because Israel understands that regime survival is…

I want to preface this article by saying that this is not going to be a full, in-depth review. There are plenty of those around, and there’s a huge chance that you might already have the game in your library, as Kingdom Come: Deliverance has often gone on sale, and was even offered for free during one of those Epic Games freebies. If you’re here, you’re probably the kind of person who wants to know if Kingdom Come: Deliverance is any good in 2026 and if it’s worth the time investment or not. Let me save you time there, chief.…

The U.S. Navy is requesting $3 billion to replenish its stockpile of Tomahawk missiles that have been depleted over the course of the Iran war, according to the Defense Department’s fiscal 2027 budget request.As part of the $1.5 trillion budget request released Friday, the Navy has asked for a 1,200% increase in the number of the long-range land attack missile.In fiscal 2026, Congress granted the service $257 million for the purchase of 58 Tomahawk missiles.The Navy is now asking lawmakers to subsidize the production of 785 Tomahawk missiles for a little over $3 billion, including roughly $1.5 billion for Tomahawk…

The U.S. Navy rehearsed wartime repairs and maintenance on an amphibious assault ship at a port located within the central interior of the Philippines last month in an exercise designed to validate the service’s expeditionary sustainment capabilities in the Western Pacific. USS Ashland (LSD-48), a Whidbey Island-class landing ship dock, conducted the simulated wartime repairs at Cebu South Port. Compared to other hubs of U.S.-Philippine defense activity such as Subic Bay and Clark, Cebu is located farther away from South China Sea hotspots and could present a more difficult target to adversary forces during a conflict. The city’s dual-use airport…