Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed eight suicide attempts among sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group — disclosed in a letter to a senator, not a hearing. The figure is a measure of what prolonged, unauthorized deployment does to the people executing it.
Max Lederer spent 33 years at Stars and Stripes and nearly 20 as its publisher. His public departure over Pentagon editorial pressure is the clearest signal yet that the military's independent newspaper no longer is.
La Tilde looks like a regional outlet. It's a Pentagon influence operation using AI to manufacture consent for U.S. military presence across Latin America — and it's building infrastructure, not just planting stories.
The U.S. has fired nearly its entire stockpile of long-range stealth cruise missiles in the Iran war. The Pentagon's two-war doctrine — the strategic foundation of American alliance commitments in the Pacific — is now a posture without the weapons to execute it.
A senior Pentagon official confirmed that artificial intelligence systems selected the first 1,000 targets struck in Iran, marking the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged AI-driven target selection at this scale.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struck four Army colonels from general officer promotions — all Black or female — after months of pressing Army leadership to remove their names.
A federal judge struck down Pentagon restrictions requiring media organizations to pledge not to gather information without official authorization, ruling the policy violated the First Amendment.