Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans for a major ground offensive against Hamas militants in southern Gaza, as the Biden administration attempts to curtail a spiraling humanitarian crisis at a moment of acute strain between the United States and its closest Middle Eastern ally. In talks with Defense Minister Yoav … Read more
A balloon recovered off the coast of Alaska had been in the ocean for “well over a year,” the Pentagon said Friday. The balloon was discovered floating in the ocean by commercial fisherman in late-February. The fishermen shared photos of the suspicious object with law enforcement, who were concerned it could be another Chinese spy … Read more
UPDATE: When reached for comment by Gizmodo, DARPA provided the following statement clarifying that the program had not been named after the pedophile temple from True Detective. It reads: Thank you for reaching out for clarification…The program manager is a fan of the notable civil war vet and author, Ambrose Bierce, and named the program … Read more
(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, the … Read more
The Pentagon firmly discredited several claims that the U.S. government has covered up evidence of space aliens and extraterrestrial material following a sweeping new investigation. A persistent theme in pop culture since the 1940s has been a belief that the government, or a secret program within it, has collected alien bodies and spacecraft and is … Read more
UFOs are back in the news this week with the release of a long-awaited Pentagon report that was designed to address public interest in the topic. What Should Fans Take Away from Imaginary? UFOs (or, rather, UAP, as they’re now known), were injected back into public consciousness last year thanks largely to a former high-ranking … Read more
Photo: Instagram Jack Teixeira was only 21-years-old last year when he was arrested and charged with one of the worst U.S. military leaks in recent history. A former airman with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, Teixeira has been accused by the government of leaking “Top Secret” U.S. intelligence, including classified details about the war in … Read more
Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida—home of some of the most skilled US special operators with the Joint Special Operations Command and other … Read more
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — As the general paced the briefing room, he displayed a piece of lethal technology and detailed the death and chaos it has caused in Ukraine. Almost 90 Russian soldiers were slain in a single attack in 2022, explained Army Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor, when Ukrainian forces dropped U.S.-provided rockets on buildings … Read more
United States officials fought to conceal details of arrangements between US spy agencies and private companies tracking the whereabouts of Americans via their cell phones. Obtaining location data from US phones normally requires a warrant, but police and intelligence agencies routinely pay companies instead for the data, effectively circumventing the courts. Ron Wyden, the US … Read more