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Golden Dome is a high priority for U.S. missile defense
United States President Donald J. Trump issued a January 2025 executive order mandating the construction of a Golden Dome missile defense system to combat…
Army to field long-range hypersonic weapon by end of budget year
Soldiers assigned to Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery (Long Range Fires Battalion), 1st Multi-Domain Task Force, prepare one of the long-range…
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…
U.S. diplomat cautions the Bahamas on perils of CCP One Belt, One Road
U.S. Embassy Charge d’Affaires Kimberly Furnish, center, visits local schools on Andros Island in the Bahamas in February 2025. Furnish cautioned the Bahamas…
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…