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The first postwar choice the Pentagon faces in the Gulf is not which bases to repair. It is whether to restore the old footprint at all. A senior defense official, speaking at a Defense Writers Group breakfast on October 20, said the administration is weighing posture changes against rebuilding costs as it decides which Middle East installations to bring back.

On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the Marine Corps activated Marine Unmanned Maintenance Squadron 14 — MUMS-14 — as a subordinate command of Marine Aircraft Group 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey F. Carben took command; Sergeant Major Tavaris J. Douglas became its senior enlisted leader; Colonel Benjam...

The House of Commons Defence Committee has published “Defence in the High North” (HC 71), and its conclusion is blunt. Britain is now responsible for leading NATO’s northern flank, but it does not have the ships and submarines that job requires. The committee also argues that the government has knowingly made one of the shortfalls worse by selling frigates to Norway.

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For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a better machine. The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s 1 October seminar in Canberra, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific, suggested otherwise. It read less like a platform conference than a de...

In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS twice in two days, to two very different audiences. On October 16, he and Washington-based defence and industry consultant Kate Rosengreen published