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Hasty US exit from Europe could drive allies away from American arms, RAND says
A rapid, uncoordinated U.S. military drawdown from Europe could push key NATO allies further away from American weapons over the long term, according to a new RAND study, a shift the authors say would hurt the U.S. defense industrial base. RAND released the report, “Anticipating Allies’ Responses to U.S. Retrenchment from Europe,” on Wednesday. It examines how France, Germany, Poland…
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Adam Telle, former Senate staffer, now acting Army secretary
President Donald Trump tapped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ top official to be the service’s senior civilian leader, bypassing the Army’s No. 2 civilian to promote a former congressional staffer. Trump announced his choice via Truth Social on Thursday evening. “I am pleased to announce that Adam Telle, the…
FMCSA cleaning up Motus mess one carrier at a time
It's a new day for two-truck owner-operator Jeffrey Crise's A&J Transport Recovery business, Overdrive's Trucker of the Month for August, after spending a month under a Motus-glitch "Involuntary suspension" of his authority.He's back up now. Previously, on top of Crise's carrier-authority suspension his old, long-out-of-use broker authority had been showing as…
FMCSA’s ’emergency’ CDL school closures: Every school listed
The White House's victory lap over shutting down CDL schools in a "historic interagency effort to crack down on fraud in trucking industry" has almost certainly taken some bad actors out of the game, but one school operator says he's had his rights trampled on after passing FMCSA's audit and…
Vance: US probing airstrike that Iran says hit a wedding party
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the United States is investigating an airstrike that Iran says struck a wedding party in Iran.“We’re investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know,” Vance told reporters during a White House press briefing.“If we do make mistakes, again, this is…
US Army launches laser production with $465M contract award
The U.S. Army awarded a $464.8 million production contract to AeroVironment, Inc., this week for the Enduring-High Energy Laser program (E-HEL), marking the first production contract for a directed energy system in the U.S. military’s history, the company stated in a release Wednesday.Rather than deploying missiles to shoot down unmanned…
The Army shut down a specialized drone unit. Legislators want to know why.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing the Army to explain why it is shuttering a specialized drone battalion less than a year after establishing it, a move that comes as conflicts across the world have become increasingly defined by unmanned aerial systems and electronic warfare.The 600-member “Unmanned Assault Battalion,”…