[ad_1] PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—A lower-than-expected defense budget for 2025 won’t affect Germany’s military presence in the Indo-Pacific region “in any way,” and will not stop the country from meeting its pledge to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defense, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Wednesday. Standing on the deck of the German ...

[ad_1] TOKYO—A first-ever gathering of defense chiefs from Japan, South Korea, and the United States here produced a trilateral security agreement, “grave concern” over increasing Russian-North Korean cooperation, and vague opposition to “unilateral attempts to change the status quo”—a reference to China and Taiwan.  Separately, the United States and Japan announced a new effort to ...

[ad_1] The Pentagon is attempting “to be less hard to work with” on data and IT projects, its chief digital officer said recently. One way is to hold a series of industry days, starting in mid-July, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Radha Plumb said Wednesday at the AWS Summit. But her office has also taken larger steps recently. Last ...

[ad_1] A new report from AI company OpenAI reveals that actors based in Russia and China have used generative artificial intelligence to bulk up their disinformation operations around topics like Ukraine, Taiwan, Moldova, and the United States. The report details five separate information operations over the last three months that used OpenAI tools to improve ...

[ad_1] “Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,” warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an October 2022 manifesto. His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year of brutal civil war has now plunged Sudan into the kind of chaos in which terrorist groups thrive. The risk ...

[ad_1] By large margins on Saturday, the House passed a package of three linked bills advancing $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine, $26 billion in military aid for Israel, and $8 billion for “countering China” in the Pacific.  The measures come at “a moment of grave urgency, with Israel facing unprecedented attacks from Iran, ...

[ad_1] The U.S. Navy is nearly $1 billion in the hole after defending Israel from Iranian missiles last weekend and fighting off Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping since October, the service’s secretary said Tuesday in a bid to convince House lawmakers to approve $95 billion in supplemental funding. “I would argue that the President’s ...

[ad_1] Britain and Latvia will co-lead an effort to send Ukraine thousands of first-person-view (FPV) drones, which Ukrainian and Russian forces have used in vast numbers as improvised loitering munitions.    At least some will come from British manufacturers, according to a British Ministry of Defense press release issued Thursday. The order will be the first ...

[ad_1] Twenty million dollars doesn’t usually change much in the U.S. military, but lawmakers hope it’s enough to usher the Pentagon’s irregular-warfare efforts into a new era.  A provision in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act provides $20 million and “funding authority, direction, definition, and Congressional reporting requirements to make permanent SOF’s ability to conduct ...

[ad_1] Air Forces Cyber will devote more time to training airmen in information warfare—everything from uncovering disinformation campaigns and targeting the networks adversaries use to spread disinformation to attempting to influence the audience themselves—said Lt. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, the commander of 16th Air Force. “We’ve been charged as the operational level of information warfare for ...