Frontlines of Freedom

02/13/2025

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with a large merchant vessel Wednesday night in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.

02/13/2025

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic and the Trump administration does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution to the war triggered by Russia's invasion. Speaking at a meeting of Ukraine's military allies at NATO headquarters....

02/13/2025

A recently released Pentagon IG report found that Navy SEAL candidates have been swimming in water with high f***l matter levels.

02/12/2025

During his first overseas flight as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth shared a video of himself aboard a C-17 Globemaster III transport jet sitting in a Silver Bullet Command and Control Module. The converted Airstream trailer is one of two the Air Force deploys to give senior leaders like Hegseth and...

02/12/2025

President Donald Trump’s expert cost-cutters in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency will next target the Pentagon's defense budget – a move that could be unpopular with Republicans.

02/11/2025

Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark reality.

02/11/2025

British engineer Richard Browning, known as the 'real-life Iron Man', is on a mission to bring jet packs to the military.

02/09/2025

The U.S. Navy is using new kinetic energy capabilities for ship defense. We're seeing the next wave of futuristic weapons of war

Documents obtained by Business Insider disclose multiple incidents where US Navy destroyers used "non-kinetic" capabilities to defeat Houthi drones.

02/08/2025

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, heavily armored tanks.

02/08/2025

The war in Ukraine has sparked an unprecedented military transformation, with drone warfare redefining modern combat. In the early months of 2022, the...

02/06/2025

Want to know how military families feel: The annual Blue Star Families Lifestyle Survey results are in...

/PRNewswire/ -- Blue Star Families, the nation's largest and fastest-growing military and Veteran family support organization, today published the results of...

02/04/2025

By April, the service expects to have 10 additional basic training units established across Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

02/04/2025

The US Navy has released incredible images showing its drone-destroying laser in action for the first time as foreign nations stock their arsenals with drones and anti-ship missiles.

02/02/2025

The Army is now eyeing influencers to help shape its digital presence, but it aims to do so with a notably hands-off approach.

02/01/2025

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.

02/01/2025

Facility near Beijing may have been under construction since mid-2024

01/30/2025

MDAA Alert: Missile Defense for America

"From our perspective, we're going to have a presidential directive. That's going to happen. The last time we had a presidential directive on missile defense was under four administrations ago under George W. Bush that put forward ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California to defeat and defend against North Korea with policy to do so. And that presidential directive gave authorities to the Missile Defense Agency to accomplish that mission. And that mission was done in three years within that time frame.

So this looks to be another watershed moment. And it could even go back to the grander 1983 speech by President Ronald Reagan on SDI, where now the president will most likely or likely give a national speech on this with a vision and a directive to defend our nation. And why is this?

Is that some sort of PR movement or political thing? The reason is, our nation is being threatened today, 360 degrees in all domains, and our nuclear deterrence does not deter that. So it's great.

Our nuclear deterrence policy is great against countries that got nuclear weapons and are threatening to use nuclear weapons. But it has failed now. Over the last couple of years, we've seen this in all the theaters around the world.

And we certainly have seen this in the United States, with Chinese balloons, with Chinese drones, hundreds of them in Langley Air Force Base, with thousands of drones and stuff coming across the Mexican border, with air infractions on our air with Russia-Chinese planes. So the threat is here. And it's even greater than that.

So I don't spend too much time on it. From FOBs all the way down, that's there. It has to be addressed.

We're going to see it on Homeland. I believe it is going to be addressed. We live with outdated policy, and I hope John Rood is going to go through this a little bit.

But we have policy basically to defend the U.S. from North Korea with missile defense. That's about it. And everything else is just ambiguous, with nobody defining any country or threat on what's going on.

So policy has to be addressed. And it can be. It can be done in two weeks.

It can be done in six months. It's not a hard thing to do. Well, it's a hard thing to do.

I'll talk to John on that. But it has to be addressed, because we have to define who we are defending the United States of America from. Who is it?

Is it Russia? Is it North Korea? Is it everybody?

I don't think you can do everybody. And then, what are we actually defending against? Because right now, we're not allowed—some people are not allowed—our combatant commanders are told to defend against certain weapons, and nuclear deterrence is told to defend against other weapons.

And then, what are we defending in the United States? Are we defending our public cities? Are we defending our nuclear deterrent?

Are we defending our capital region? Are we defending our financial community? What are we going to defend?

Because if you don't answer those three things, you don't have an ability to do the architecture for it. You have to create a tasking order from that. And that tasking order has to have an agency or a service or someone that's given full authorities, which I think that's going to happen with the presidential directive, to enable that to happen.

So we're here today, and we're right on the front of this. This is exciting for us. We're right on the front of this, and we've got experts."
-Mr. Riki Ellison

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01/30/2025

At 8:47 pm ET, a US Army Blackhawk helicopter with a crew of 3 on a training flight in DC crashed into an American Eagle CRJ700 with 64 on board that was on final to land on runway 33 at Reagan National Airport (DCA). Both aircraft crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac. There are no survivors.

Earthcam video appears to show the moment of a passenger jet plane crash over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport.