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U.S. Green Berets train with Mexican counterparts in border security…
Mexican Marines stand guard at a pier in Baja California in this undated photo from the Mexican government. In February 2025, 10 U.S. Army Green Berets traveled…
Pentagon orders up to 3,000 troops, Stryker combat vehicles to border
United States Soldiers scan their sector at a known crossing point of the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Texas, on February 25, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is…
China’s Arctic ambition: strategic implications for U.S. homeland defense
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) icebreaker, Xuelong 2, in Antarctica in December 2024. The CCP has sought to challenge the U.S. and its allies in the Arctic…
NORAD intercepts Russian bombers near Alaska
Canadian and U.S. warplanes intercepted Russian bombers near Alaska in February 2025. Such intercepts, like the 2020 incident pictured, are routine, the command…
USNORTHCOM commander advocates for expanded authorities and investment in…
Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, commander of United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, testifies at a hearing of the Senate Armed…
U.S. designates six Mexican and two Latin American cartels as foreign…
Elements of the Mexican Army, the National Guard and the Jalisco Security Secretariat guard one of four armored vehicles that were seized from drug cartels in…
U.S. to begin construction of Golden Dome for America missile defense…
President Donald J. Trump issued a January 2025 executive order mandating the construction of a Golden Dome missile defense system to combat next-generation…
USNORTHCOM announces Joint Task Force – Southern Border
U.S. Soldiers from the Georgia National Guard work alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection to conduct train inspections in Uvalde, Texas, on February 12,…
Norway, U.S. strengthen space cooperation in High North
Andøya Spaceport is located at Nordmela on the Norwegian island of Andøya. Norway and the United States have signed a technology safeguards agreement that…
U.S. Coast Guard surges assets and personnel to support Mexico-U.S.…
The U.S. Coast Guard surged aviation assets beginning in late January 2025 to support border security efforts at the Mexico-U.S. frontier. U.S. COAST GUARD
The…