“We never fight alone. We've never done that. You can go all the way back to the days of Revolutionary War. The United States has never gone into conflict on its own. We've always built coalitions. We've always involved partners and allies. And we'll continue to do so going forward.” That was Gen. Ronald P. Clark, Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific Command, speaking last Tuesday at a contemporary military forum, Decisive Landpower -- Deterrence and Partner Integration Against the Pacing Threat, as part of the 2026 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Conference in Washington, D.C. On the panel with Clark was Army Gen. Xavier T. Brunson, Commander, United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea, and Tara Murphy Dougherty, Chief Executive Officer of Air, a leading AI software firm that specializes in national security readiness. The two Army generals spent a good deal of their time talking about lessons learned from Ukraine and the benefits to the U.S. of allies – specifically in t

The EU's top diplomat has backed the idea of a Black Sea naval mission to protect grain ships from Russian drones - but this would require much more than Europe's existing Red Sea operation, while air policing might be more effective.

Ukraine had received no advance alerts during multiple Russian ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv over the last week, leaving no time to alert civilians before the missiles hit.

HDUSA’s CEO and President Michael Coulter shared new details about the plans in an exclusive interview with DefenseScoop. The post HDUSA wants to replicate South Korea’s ‘war footing’ industrial capacity in America appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The UK is right to put fraud at the heart of its FATF presidency. Success will require source countries to have the means to act.

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast near the ports of Varna and Burgas, a week after Russian drone attacks sank a cargo ship and damaged another in the area, flight tracking data shows. Tracking data published by the flight monitoring Itamilradar, using Flightradar24 data, shows the Boeing […]

The talks came as a batch of Patriot missiles that allies have already paid for awaits a Pentagon signature, Ukrainian officials say.

France's second city saw some of the worst violence as chaos gripped the country on Saturday.

Burnham rejects Corbyn's call for public inquiry into 'British complicity' in Gaza genocide Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 10/20/2026 - 11:20 The former Labour leader wrote to the prime minister after he took office in July urging him to back a 'full, independent, public inquiry' into UK cooperation with Israel Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks on a pro-Palestine march, on 1 April 2026 (AFP) Off The UK government has rejected a call by Jeremy Corbyn MP for an independent inquiry into "British complicity" in Israel' s genocide in Gaza. The former Labour leader wrote to Prime Minister Andy Burnham in July calling on him to back a bill for a public Chilcot-style inquiry into British military, economic and political cooperation with Israel over the course of its ongoing onslaught in Gaza which began in October 2023. The bill, which was rejected by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government during its second reading last year, specifically sought a probe into the British

In March 2025, Germany did more than loosen a fiscal rule. It fused two national emergencies — a deteriorating European security order and a deteriorating industrial model — into a single constitutional bargain. The reform de facto exempted German defense expenditure from any domestic budgetary ceiling — as the German Bundesbank itself has acknowledged — and enabled a military expansion of extraordinary proportions. E.U. debt rules of 3 percent of GDP for annual government deficits and 60 percent for public debt technically still apply — though 14 out of the 27 Eurozone countries are not expected to meet these rules The post Guns, Growth, and the German Reinvention of Military Keynesianism appeared first on War on the Rocks .

Media identified the facility as a Transneft linear production and dispatch station, which is a key transit node along the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Russia has demonstrated a growing willingness to use hybrid tactics – including sabotage, cyberattacks, information operations, and the use of deniable or “throwaway” agents – to create disruption and uncertainty across Europe. This paper examines how those tactics could be combined in a hypothetical Russian operation against Estonia designed not to defeat NATO militarily, but to create a crisis that tests the Alliance’s ability to respond quickly and collectively. The scenario is deliberately constructed as a red-team exercise rather than a prediction. It envisions Russia exploiting the existence of Estonia’s Russian-speaking population, infiltrating operatives into the Schengen Area through legitimate visa channels, allowing those operatives to move through the largely borderless Schengen zone, and exploiting gaps in European immigration enforcement. The scenario culminates in a deliberately ambiguous armed crisis in Narva, accompanied by cyberattacks and a coordinated information ca

Phantom Defense, a Ukrainian defense-tech company building an integrated counter-UAS ecosystem, participated in Gauntlet II, a phase of the U.S. … mehr... The post Phantom Defense EW Jammers Served as an Adversary for Drones During U.S. Drone Dominance appeared first on European Security & Defence .

Lockheed Martin will upgrade the giant assembly stations where F-35 stealth fighters are joined together at Europe’s only F-35 factory in Cameri, Italy, a plant that now builds jets not just for Italy but for the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. The work is covered by a $9.4 million contract modification announced by the U.S. Department […]

The Quality Jobs Act covers common standards for being able to ‘go home’ and disconnect from remote work, and limits AI's role in recruitment or scrutiny of workers’ performance.

Research organizations that work with entities on the Section 1286 list are at risk of losing federal funding. The post Pentagon threatens universities that have ties to ‘foreign entities of concern,’ hints at additional audits appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Navantia UK has secured a second new-build vessel export contract for its Methil yard in Fife and is recruiting 60 additional skilled workers as activity at the site increases. The post Navantia UK wins second Methil export vessel order first appeared on UK Defence Journal .

European unrest. Protests over living costs, unaffordable housing and education spread throughout Europe over the weekend. Clashes broke out in Milan, Brussels, Liege and other cities, while the Albanian capital of Tirana saw its sixth day of anti-government demonstrations on Sunday. European leaders are now scrambling to address the unrest: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni […] The post Daily Memo: Protests in Europe, Frustration Over Ceuta appeared first on Geopolitical Futures .

Funding shortages have forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to slash assistance to hungry families in the Gaza Strip by roughly one third – a move that will affect some 500,000 people as winter approaches, the UN agency announced on Monday.

The confirmed and suspected targets include a university rector backing Serbia's protests and a prosecutor who investigated a Trump-linked Belgrade development, weeks before parliamentary elections. The post Spyware found on devices belonging to prominent Serbian critics as elections loom appeared first on CyberScoop .

Washington made three decisions this week, and none of them has an end date. On the night of October 14, Ukrainian units in the field found that their Starshield terminals had been capped at a speed, 160 kilometers an hour by the published figure, 70 by President Zelensky's account two days later, which cuts off any strike drone that flies faster than the cap. Reuters reported, citing American and Western officials, that the order came from inside the White House; a senior official said the President had made no such request. Service was reported partly restored by October 15. No terms were ever published. The restriction followed a week in which American negotiators had warned Kyiv that intelligence sharing could be suspended if strikes on Russian energy targets continued, and in which the President announced an "energy ceasefire," which President Zelensky said was "news for me." Ukraine paused its refinery campaign for three days. On October 15, Zelensky told the Financial Times, "We

More than 500 combat units order drones, munitions, ground robots and electronic-warfare gear from it.

A US Navy F-35C Lightning II has completed the first arrested landing by the type aboard a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, with the milestone taking place aboard the future USS John F. Kennedy during aircraft compatibility testing in the Atlantic. The post F-35C makes first arrested landing on Ford carrier first appeared on UK Defence Journal .

The Cosmos 2612 came within 500 meters (about a third of a mile) to US-flagged ICEYE-X36 believed to be supporting Ukraine, according to LeoLabs.

The appointment comes amid a push by the department to modernize its IT and cybersecurity tools, streamline procurement, and figure out the way ahead for the controversial CMMC program. The post Pentagon CIO gets new strategic technical advisor appeared first on DefenseScoop .

U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 18 claimed his approach to ending the war in Ukraine is "very simple." In a post on Truth Social , Trump explained that his decision to ease sanctions on Russia while simultaneously piling pressure on Ukraine was to avoid "foolishly (driving)

The strikes on Yandex data centers have impacted services used by millions — and exposed vulnerabilities in Russia’s digital infrastructure.

Last week, I wrote on the paradox of China – a relatively straightforward issue as far as paradoxes go. This week, I must address the actions of the United States, which are far from being as orderly as a mere paradox. That doesn’t mean that they lack meaning but that late on Sunday, even tracking […] The post US, Russia, Ukraine and Diesel: With Iran at the End appeared first on Geopolitical Futures .

NATO plans to buy six portable kits that can jam satellite navigation signals and the radio links drones use for control and video, so its trainers can expose ships, aircrews and drone operators to realistic interference during exercises. Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, the alliance command in Norfolk, Virginia, that leads NATO’s training and modernization […]

As the United States seeks to rebuild its defense industrial base, Washington is scrambling to understand an industrial ecosystem that it no longer controls, nor largely understands. China has been able to achieve strategic advantage against the United States through the targeted application of export controls and licensing requirements on specific materials at specific supply chain nodes. U.S. responses, by contrast, have largely been broader in scope and shallower in effect. It is as though China is striking the supply chain with precision-guided munitions while the United States is still using dumb bombs.Maintaining weapons stockpiles and a resilient force, let The post The Pentagon Doesn’t Need to Reinvent Supply Chain Transparency appeared first on War on the Rocks .

For now, Ukrainians are Europe’s human shields. If their defence breaks, a triumphant, battle-hardened Russia will seek its next victim, while the US may decide to back a winner not a loser. For now, Europe’s problem is only a lack of will-power: a nice problem to have.

U.S. Army Cyber Command is constantly refining human oversight of artificial intelligence, Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said last week.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied any pause in intelligence-sharing and pointed to a software problem in Ukraine’s early-warning system a few nights earlier.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces targeted energy facilities in 11 oblasts across Ukraine.

Published: October 19, 2026 The most dangerous Russian information operation may not begin with a lie. It may begin with something true. A legitimate news report. An authentic photograph. A real grievance. Russia’s information operators need not manufacture the informational environment when Western societies produce credible material every hour. They can enter that stream, identify […] The Cauldron Never Empties: Synthetic Narratives that Create Strategic Opportunity was originally published on Global Security Review .

The service expects this first increment of TACTMIS to replace the previously used TAMIS system once it retires on Oct. 30.

Two men tell of the work they say they have been doing to support Ukrainian intelligence during the war.

No danger found after Tel Aviv-Vienna flight 'threat', Austrian Airlines says Austrian Airlines LHAG.DE said in an update on Monday that searches of flight OS82's aircraft, passengers and crew in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia found no danger after a threat forced the flight to divert late on Sunday.  The airline said the flight, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, continued from Sofia to Vienna the same night with all passengers on board. Earlier, reports indicated that the plane landed in the Bulgarian capital city after a "bomb threat signal".

The number includes 2,100 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as Donald Trump accused him of not wanting to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. The talks came amid intensifying energy strikes and growing uncertainty over Washington’s approach to Moscow.

Russian air defense units downed 1,015 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

MEPs in Strasbourg will respond to Donald Trump's sanctions against the International Criminal Court, debate Russian drones in the Black Sea and decide positions on short- and long-term budgets.

Daimler Truck Defence will supply the New Zealand Ministry of Defence and New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) with 61 Mercedes-Benz … mehr... The post Daimler Truck receives order for 61 Mercedes-Benz Unimog vehicles for New Zealand Defence Force appeared first on European Security & Defence .

Oil, Missiles and the China Paradox Oct. 15, 2026 Question: Any economic slowdowns from exports in the present and near future are not an issue for China which stands to gain considerably in the region in terms of trade access…which further secures the Middle East region for them. From a U.S. geopolitical perspective, for its […] The post George Answers Your Questions: The China Paradox appeared first on Geopolitical Futures .

Prime Minister Carney said military and emergency crews fought the flames throughout the night in "some of the worst conditions imaginable".

Ukraine’s Magura-type MV7 uncrewed surface vessels, the drone boats that have sunk Russian warships in the Black Sea, took part in a U.S. Army exercise in Michigan, where they were used as floating launch pads for aerial drones. The boats appeared during Bayonet Quest 26, which the 7th Infantry Division, part of Multi-Domain Command-Pacific, ran […]

“Those who destroyed must pay; those who looted must reimburse,” the French president said.

Its open frame takes cargo containers or evacuation stretchers, and a petrol engine drives all eight wheels.

Iran's IRGC navy says oil tanker hits mine, catches fire in Strait of Hormuz An oil tanker caught fire and exploded after striking a naval mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said on Sunday, according to Iranian media. The vessel violated Iran-imposed “regulations” by switching off its navigation system while transiting the waterway, the IRGC said. “An illicit oil tanker exploded and caught fire in its engine room after hitting a naval mine in the southern Strait of Hormuz,” the Fars news agency quoted the IRGC as saying. “If ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf switch off their navigation and identification systems, they will be dealt with severely and decisively.”

I felt sorry for police facing Molotov cocktails and cobble stones, but also angry about its use of weapons that left young people maimed.