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2026-10-09 · Washington Examiner · Politics

What to know about the Army’s plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter

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2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner · Politics

Trump: Military moved bombers out of UK due to ‘some threats’

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2026-11-02 · Washington Examiner · Politics

Ukrainian official disputes claim Russian forces resupplied during short-term ceasefire

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2026-10-30 · Washington Examiner · Politics

Hundreds evacuate Ukrainian city of Oleshky as part of Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire

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2026-10-21 · Washington Examiner · Politics

The Trump administration’s evolving Starshield deflection

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2026-09-17 · Washington Examiner · Politics

UN investigators conclude ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe certain US strikes in Iran were war crimes

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2026-08-26 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Given how expensive and time-consuming construction was, they now intend to open the facility to the public once the three additional houses are complete, which Schmitz said is expected to happen before the end of the year. assertive

2026-09-16 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov shared that sentiment and warned that it could lead to a space-based arms race. assertive

2026-09-16 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The Air Force’s effort to modernize its fleet of refueler aircraft will take decades and require the long-term sustainment of both the legacy and newer platforms. assertive

2026-09-17 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Amid fears that they would resume attacks on vessels transiting the waterways and further imperil the global energy crisis, the Iranian-aligned rebels said they would only attack Saudi vessels. assertive

2026-09-17 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Several Democrats have expressed concerns about reductions made in the civilian harm mitigation effort and whether it could have contributed to the Minab school strike. assertive

2026-09-18 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The Pentagon is investigating how sensitive technology in the F-35 fighter jet was diverted to Hong Kong and is currently unaccounted for, raising concerns that it could have made its way into the possession of the Chinese military. mixed

2026-09-19 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The program has arranged various competitions, called Gauntlets, allowing hopeful drone companies to demonstrate their capabilities for the military in the hopes that the department will order their products in particular. assertive

2026-09-24 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The Navy announced on Thursday the formation of a new center dedicated to robotic and autonomous systems that will be headquartered at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia. assertive

2026-09-25 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Warfighters will sleep better knowing that no private company will insert their opinions in the chain of command. assertive

2026-09-29 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The last time they took the podium in the Pentagon Briefing Room was on May 5. assertive

2026-09-30 · Washington Examiner

🔮 “Now, the hyperventilating media thought it might be an impromptu PT test. assertive

2026-10-02 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Another U.S. Navy aircraft carrier has left its home port in San Diego recently and is heading for the Middle East as President Donald Trump has said it’s “possible” the military could resume offensive attacks against Iran after the midterm elections. assertive

2026-10-02 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Project Agincourt, Autonomous warfare command, and long-term planning Hegseth announced Project Agincourt — a reference to a battle in which English forces defeated French adversaries in 1415 despite being outnumbered — which will essentially transition the department’s efforts to innovate and mass-produce autonomous systems into a new four-star functional combatant command called Autonomous Warfare Command. assertive

2026-10-02 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is set to begin its multiyear midlife overhaul, which will set the vessel up for the second half of its 50-year service life. mixed

2026-10-02 · Washington Examiner

🔮 We will not answer a fast-moving threat with a slow-moving bureaucracy,” he wrote in the memo, later calling drones “the defining threat of our time.” assertive

2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Alabama and Colorado both play a significant role in the military’s space strategy, but they were pitted against each other when it came to where Space Command would be located indefinitely, and now the service is trying to bridge the divide in the best interest of the country. With the military moving forward with its plans to permanently house SPACECOM in Huntsville, Alabama, it is still trying to keep Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it had been, involved and engaged in necessary space-related operations. assertive

2026-10-09 · Washington Examiner

🔮 This week, President Donald Trump approved Hasan’s execution, which would make him the first person executed through the military justice system since a soldier was hanged in 1961, and the first to be killed by firing squad since 1945. assertive

2026-10-12 · Washington Examiner

🔮 President Donald Trump said the dozen bombers brought back stateside from Royal Air Force Fairford were due to “some threats,” and he warned that Iran would “suffer greatly” if they had smuggled attack drones into the U.K. for an attack targeting the base. assertive

2026-10-13 · Washington Examiner

🔮 I’m not sure we would need to station or establish additional squadrons elsewhere in the region to support the region in the way that they need,” she explained. assertive

2026-10-13 · Washington Examiner

🔮 It looks like a standard hex-sided bolt that can be purchased at any hardware store, but Army soldiers in the Pacific would have to wait several months to get them — that is, until they created their own solution to the backlog. assertive

2026-10-13 · Washington Examiner

🔮 That threat moves again because they will. assertive

2026-10-18 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The department’s $1.5 trillion defense budget request was broken in two; a base budget of $1.15 trillion, and a reconciliation bill for $350 billion, which could be passed with only Republican support, though Hegseth noted this week that the reconciliation figure of $350 billion was “a minimum” and that there could be “potentially more” requested. speculative

2026-10-19 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The Supreme Court sided with the Pentagon on Monday in its decision to revoke a plea deal with three alleged terrorists tied to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that would have taken the death penalty off the table in exchange for life in prison. assertive

2026-10-27 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The U.S. military will need hundreds of thousands of drones of various shapes and sizes with different capabilities in preparation for a future war with China that the department hopes it never has to fight. assertive

2026-10-28 · Washington Examiner

🔮 War Secretary Pete Hegseth gifted his Vietnamese counterpart a declassified report that may lead to the discovery of remains from more than 400 service members dating back to the Vietnam War. mixed

2026-10-28 · Washington Examiner

🔮 Army officials announced on Wednesday that it would allow commercial drone companies to use two additional facilities, both of which are in Indiana, to test their products more quickly as part of the Permissive Test Range Expansion Initiative. mixed

2026-11-02 · Washington Examiner

🔮 The company announced on Monday its new partnership with Grid Aero to mass produce their Lifter drone, marking the first time the company will expand into aircraft. assertive