Gen. Randy George, the Army’s chief of staff, is stepping down early from his position at the request of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CBS News first reported Thursday. While spokespeople for the service and George did not immediately return requests for comment, a Defense official confirmed to Defense One that the…

The U.S. military declared space superiority over Iran this week, but defense experts question what that means given the country’s inchoate military space program and heavy reliance on space-based intelligence from other nations.Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, said Tuesday that the U.S. had established control of…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Army leaders often say they want to stop using million-dollar missiles to shoot down thousand-dollar drones. One of the solutions may be cheap munitions the service already has.While the Army is leading an interagency task force to source dedicated counter-drone systems, the Capability Program Executive for ammunition and energetics…

The debate about lethal autonomy—core to the Trump administration’s fight with Anthropic—obscures a deeper danger of the Pentagon’s rapid adoption of commercial AI tools: they might weaken the U.S. military’s ability to tell fact from fiction.New research suggests that relying on AI to do various tasks can erode one’s native ability…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The Army is sprinting to field drones and counter-drone systems throughout its units, but there are a handful of capabilities they’re still looking for in order to make these new systems viable in combat.That starts with the training environment, Col. Burr Miller, of Security Assistance Group-Ukraine, said Tuesday at…

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