Twelve companies are now competing to build space-based interceptors for President Donald Trump’s sprawling Golden Dome missile defense shield, the Space Force announced Friday. In late 2025 and early this year, the Space Force awarded 20 Other Transaction Authority agreements, flexible contracts not bound by certain federal procurement regulations, Space Force…

Bob Smith stepped into the Maine woods on a November afternoon in 1997 and never came back.His wife heard a single gunshot. Then… nothing.What followed was the largest ground search in the history of the Maine Warden Service. Investigators found clues—a set of boot prints, a strange arrow in the…

A soldier wounded in Korea in 1951 had better survival odds than soldiers wounded in World War II despite heavier casualties and harsher conditions. The difference was time. Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals brought surgeons closer to the front lines, and helicopters brought casualties to them faster.That innovation evolved into today’s…

Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Carden has made history, becoming the first National Guard Bureau (NGB) vice chief to wear the four-star rank.The Georgia Army National Guard officer was confirmed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate as the Bureau’s 12th vice chief. His confirmation means he will receive a fourth star due…

HONOLULU—Five years ago, when then-Adm. Phil Davidson told senators that China would attempt to seize Taiwan as early as 2027, “it seemed like it was a good long way out,” Adm. Sam Paparo said Monday.“And the danger in that was that we thought that it was some holiday that we…

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