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May 13, 2026
Drills, deals and doubts in the Pacific as Trump visits China
The first half of May is foreshadowing the future of Indo-Pacific security.Why it matters: Long-term competition between the U.S., China and their friends — on AI, chips, cybersecurity, freedom of ...
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April 24, 2026
Firing fears ripple through "Mean Girls" Pentagon
Breakfast meetings, happy hours and group chats across Washington are abuzz with the same question: Who gets axed next?The big picture: The ousters this month of U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan and...
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April 22, 2026
John Phelan out as U.S. Navy secretary
John Phelan is "departing" as U.S. Navy secretary, the Pentagon said Wednesday.Why it matters: The announcement caught many off-guard, and casts Phelan into the growing pile of military officials t...
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April 15, 2026
Exclusive: U.K.-Ukraine duo beats Americans at their own drone game
The U.S. launched a killer-drone competition in February. It was won, according to public leaderboards, by a small British company with frontline Ukrainian experience and a manufacturing footprint ...
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April 6, 2026
U.S. launched "air armada" to rescue F-15 crew in Iran
The U.S. military employed hundreds of people and some 176 aircraft over the weekend to rescue the crew of an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle downed deep inside Iran.The big picture: This "air armada,...
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April 3, 2026
Hegseth's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane"
The ousters of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and Army Gen. David Hodne blindsided military leaders and have generated concern among defense officials about the implications for the war in I...
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March 16, 2026
WATCH: Anduril's Palmer Luckey talks AI, nukes and Iran on "The Axios Show"
The U.S. holds an "extremely small" lead on China in the AI race, in part because authoritarian governments have certain advantages in deploying new technology, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Lu...
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March 14, 2026
Exclusive: U.S. lacks the "will" for Iran ground war, Anduril's Luckey says
The U.S. lacks the "political will" and popular consensus to put boots on the ground in Iran after decades of "adventures" in the Middle East, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey said on "The ...
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March 5, 2026
Exclusive: Azerbaijan wants "official explanation" from Iran after drone attack
Azerbaijan's ambassador to the U.S. told Axios his country is taking "appropriate defensive and precautionary measures" following an Iranian drone strike on the Nakhchivan exclave.Asked if he was w...
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March 5, 2026
Pentagon flexes military muscle with new weapons in Iran
In less than one week, the Iran war has produced a remarkable string of combat firsts that pull back the curtain on an American military boosted by AI and stocked with upgraded weapons.Why it matte...
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March 4, 2026
Anthropic ban may threaten the military's AI advantage over China
Anthropic's AI tools are now battle-tested, in two radically different military operations — but the Trump administration is still threatening to pull the plug.Why it matters: The international rac...
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February 25, 2026
Exclusive: U.S. must overhaul military readiness and tech metrics, report urges
Today's metrics don't give the U.S. military an accurate sense of its own readiness, as the Pentagon battles outdated procurement procedures and other countries quickly up-gun their troops, accordi...
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February 25, 2026
Canada, like Europe, seeks to break U.S. defense dependency
Canada's first-ever defense-industrial strategy, published this month, suggests it, like Europe, can no longer count on the U.S. to be a security backstop, economically or militarily."Long-held ass...
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