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.