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Abstract The Indo-Pacific’s ‘battle of wits’ precedes any ‘battle of metal.’ Irregular warfare campaigns preempt Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO) convergence by contesting sustainment, weaponizing escalation, reconfiguring theater geometry politically, and imposing decision friction—degrading access, authorities, alliances, and logistics before crisis. Second Thomas Shoal and Galwan clashes reveal adversaries conditioning terrain without war. JADO assumes stable enablers it lacks, creating a ‘glass jaw.’ The Joint Force must treat irregular warfare denial, pre-delegated authorities, sustainment design for persistent harassment, and ethical-cognitive resilience as primary campaign tasks in competition to make convergence competition-proof. Background In the Indo‑Pacific today, the most decisive struggle is…

An artist’s rendering of the AN/SLQ-32(V)7 SEWIP Block-3 configuration which is outfitting Flight-IIA/III ‘Arleigh Burke’ class destroyers and ‘Gerald R. Ford’ class aircraft carriers. The US Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Programme continues apace with a new contract increasing the number of AN/SLQ-32 systems fleet surface combatants will receive. Reports in late March disclosed that Northrop Grumman had won a contract to deliver an additional nine AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Programme (SEWIP) Block-3 naval Electronic Warfare (EW) systems to the United States Navy from 2028. The SEWIP initiative commenced in 2002 as an effort to overhaul the capabilities of…

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Navantia’s San Fernando shipyard today held the keel-laying event for the seventh corvette it is building for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF). The ship, Construction No. 576, will be named HMS NEOM. Navantia press release Held as a working ceremony, the event brought together representatives from programme teams of Navantia and the RSNF Staff, represented by the Director PMO ALSARAWAT Project, Cmdre. Fareed M. Alharbi, and the Project Control Office team. With this milestone, the first block of the second corvette in this series is now on the slipway; together with the first unit, HMS Al-Madinah, both vessels are…

As the Trump administration continues its effort to root out federal funding for diversity initiatives, the National Institutes of Health has modified its grant review process to identify research that contains words associated with race or gender, which has held up some grant disbursements and forced scientists to rewrite proposals.“I feel that this kind of censorship is making the path forward to support narrower and narrower research only to include, for example, white, straight, cisgender men,” said a program director at one of NIH’s institutes. “Any other population is being scrutinized, which is highly, highly, highly problematic for a thousand…

There’s a moment in every dominant champion’s career when the conversation shifts. The wins pile up, the belt defenses stack, and the narrative hardens into something static. That time hasn’t come for Valentina Shevchenko. Not because the UFC women’s flyweight champion hasn’t earned it. But because she refuses to live there. After decades in marital arts, world titles that stretch back to the early 2000s, and a resume that spans generations of fighters, Shevchenko, coming off her November victory over Weili Zhang and now gearing up for a potential title defense against Natalia Silva, still talks like a fighter chasing…

A division main command post sits dispersed across a wide support area. A division support battalion prepares to move. An engineer asset shifts to support a different brigade. A signal package moves with it. A sustainment node displaces. A release point changes. A route now carries a different mix of tracked vehicles, fuelers, wreckers, cargo trucks, air defense platforms, and command-post vehicles. A commander can move those icons on a screen in seconds. But the division must move the force on roads, through checkpoints, across support areas, and into assembly areas in the right sequence and with enough control to…

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to phase out enlisted jobs tied to the F/A-18 Hornet as it transitions to an all-F-35 tactical aircraft fleet.According to Tuesday’s Marine Administrative Message, or MARADMIN, the Corps will deactivate all remaining Hornet squadrons by 2030 and eliminate the maintenance specialties associated with the aging fighter jet.Marines currently serving in one of the six affected specialties — including mechanic, avionics and technician roles — will have the opportunity to retrain for F-35 jobs, move into another specialty or leave the service once their enlistment contracts end.While the Corps said Marines are “highly encouraged” to laterally…

Kroenig quoted in The Wall Street Journal on Rubio’s trip to Italy – Atlantic Council In the News May 8, 2026 • 10:41am ET By Atlantic Council On May 7, Atlantic Council vice president and Scowcroft Center senior director Matthew Kroenig was quoted in The Wall Street Journal about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trip to Italy, arguing that he is the Trump administration’s most effective foreign policy communicator. Related Experts: Matthew Kroenig Print this page Share this page ERROR MESSAGE HEADING ERROR MESSAGE SUBHEADING ERROR MESSAGE CONTENT ERROR MESSAGE INFO Oops… It looks like we’re having a technical issue. If refreshing the page…

Dana White believes the UFC has made nearly every major fight than the fans wanted to see. Unfortunately, it seems that fight fans are in almost unanimous disagreement about that. White, who seldom admits to any errors when it comes to running the UFC, made this bold claim during an appearance on WFAN Sports Radio this week, when he was asked if there are any fights he regrets not making. Here’s how he answered: “There’s probably been a few — I can’t remember off the top of my head,” White began. “What I’ve been very lucky about in my career…