‘Infrastructure is the weapon’: Inside the race to build portable interceptor factories
As the Iran war drives global demand for interceptor drones, defense startups are betting they can fit a production line into a shipping container.
Veterans
Fewer service members died by suicide in 2024 than year prior, report finds
The report on 2024 suicides found a decrease in the total force suicide rate, though active component rates have steadily increased from 2011 to 2024.
Lawmakers return to DC with new shutdown deadlines looming
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Jan. 8, 2024.
Defense secretary hospitalized for surgery complications
The defense secretary went into the hospital on Jan. 1, the Pentagon announced.
Please return LT’s Humvee. This is no longer funny. Stop.
A satirical imagining of events after an M1165A1 Humvee was (really) stolen from Fort Liberty’s Mott Lake training area between Nov. 7 and Nov. 8.
Troops do not have an extremism problem, but veterans do, study finds
Even a single incident of violent extremism by a service member can lead to significant negative repercussions for the nation as a whole, the study found.
VA plans research on using psychedelics to treat PTSD, depression
The studies on psychedelics will be the first funded by the department since the 1960s.
Chef Andre Rush wants veterans to choose passion over a paycheck
'I tell everybody, go for your passions. ... Don’t do the safe side,” Rush said.
Veterans jobless rate drops to lowest average in more than 20 years
For all of 2023, the monthly veterans unemployment rate averaged just under 2.8%, the lowest since at least 2000.
Ibogaine shrub helps vets with traumatic brain injury, study finds
The study comes on the heels of legislation meant to explore the medicinal properties of numerous psychedelics.
Houthis have attacked ships in the Red Sea 25 times since November
The latest unsuccessful attack came Thursday morning.
