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In a Pacific war, the U.S. military cannot assume uncontested access to its depots and supply lines for munitions, spare parts, food, water, and energy. Jonathan is joined by David Tuttle (Rune Technologies), Paul Lwin (HavocAI), and Tom Garvey (CACI) to discuss sustaining a dispersed force that’s facing enemy fire and lacks stable, secure communications. They debate autonomy versus automation, predictive resupply, where the data comes from, and which lessons from Ukraine transfer across theaters.Image: Sgt. Alora Finigan via DVIDS. The post Contested Logistics and the “Last Unmanned Mile” appeared first on War on the Rocks.

The second week of 2026’s edition of Contender Series delivered a ton of action, capped off by a savage knockout of a fan favorite.On Tuesday night, Week 2 of Season 10 of Contender Series took place at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, featuring three knockouts — including one of the most brutal knockouts in Contender Series history — one submission, the best fight of the season so far, and six UFC contracts handed out.Kaik Brito def. Namo Fazil In the main event, Namo Fazil took on Kaik Brito in a high-profile welterweight contest. Fazil is an extremely popular fighter…

Airmen in two squadrons deployed to rescue five Navy personnel following an aircraft incident in California last week.Airmen from the 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, assigned to the 355th Wing but located at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, alongside the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron, deployed two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters to rescue the Navy personnel near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, according to a Monday release.The “aircraft mishap” occurred on Aug. 10, per the release. The 88th received initial notification regarding the Navy MH-60S Seahawk hard landing in mountainous terrain during a high-altitude training flight around 11:30…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. Army has chosen Hanwha Defense USA to advance to the next phase of its Mobile Tactical Cannon (MTC) program. The company will now provide prototypes of its wheeled 155mm K9 Mobile Howitzer for further testing. This, in turn, could lead to its adoption as a replacement for the Army’s existing towed 155mm M777 howitzers. “The U.S. Army announced today an agreement with Hanwha Defense USA, Arlington, Virginia, for the development of prototypes for the Mobile Tactical Cannon program, a critical…

Dana White and Eddie Hearn continue to be at odds with one another.For much of 2026, White and Hearn have been engaged in a public feud, with the two even briefly discussing boxing each other. The primary friction between the two stems from White’s move into boxing promotion with Zuffa Boxing — taking some of Hearn’s fighters — and Hearn’s move to take on a few high-profile MMA fighters to manage. But lately, their biggest issue has been the planned heavyweight superfight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.Fury and Joshua are supposed to fight in their long-awaited matchup before the…

WordPress.com’s Support Assistant helps thousands of customers every day, from resetting forgotten passwords to connecting a domain name and explaining settings.  It resolves most questions on its own, but we built it to get you the right help, fast. And sometimes the right help is a person. Talking to our Support Assistant should never feel like jumping through hoops to get the right help. So when we built it, we focused not just on what it can do, but on knowing when it should step aside.  Here’s how it decides. It knows what it’s talking about When you contact WordPress.com…

The Social Security Administration is looking to speed up disability claims adjudication by allowing Americans to consent to their medical providers sending the agency digital copies of their health records through a data sharing superhighway.In April, Epic — the largest electronic health record vendor for U.S. hospitals — announced that its health system customers are connected to SSA through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA. Through that superhighway, dozens of hospitals and clinics can send digital medical records to SSA, eliminating the need to fax documents to the agency and slashing disability claims processing times by up…

On Episode 298 of The Menace Podcast, host Dennis James was joined by Milos Sarcev and Chris Cormier, and the panel took a deep dive into the results of the recent Atlanta Pro Olympia qualifier, where James Holingshead punched his ticket to Las Vegas, knocking Regan Grimes into runner-up status. During the show, the gang agreed that Regan Grimes had a lot of work do if he wants to complete with the best of the best, noting that he may be putting his social media content ahead of competitive bodybuilding. “Let’s give credit where credit is due,” said Milos Sarcev…

In addition to Russia and China,both North Korea and Iran now claim possession of hypersonic weapons. The increasing number of adversarial nations fielding or developing this capability is forcing Western nations to accelerate their own hypersonic defence programmes. Hypersonic weapons are currently divided into three classes. Hypersonic cruise missiles (HCM) are air-breathing systems which function in much the same way as conventional cruise missiles, but achieve flight speeds of Mach 5 or more through the use of advanced propulsion systems. Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) are launched like ballistic weapons atop a booster rocket, which accelerates to hypersonic speed before releasing…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amazon is in the early stages of planning for a 1 million-square-foot retail distribution facility in Norwich, Connecticut, the company confirmed to Supply Chain Dive. The Norwich center is expected to serve as a “first mile” facility, according to Elena Rossi, a project manager from Bluewater Property Group, which is working with the e-commerce giant on the project. First mile facilities receive goods and then distribute them to “middle mile” sortation centers before they are entered into last-mile centers that handle order…