To counter the rapidly evolving threat from hostile unmanned aircraft systems, Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has championed a groundbreaking enterprise-level agreement to provide a cutting-edge command-and-control solution through a strategic action. 

More than 50,000 service members are supporting Operation Epic Fury, and those forces have established control over air and sea domains and struck thousands of identified Iranian targets, demonstrating operational dominance. 

Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians supported Arctic Edge 2026, a homeland defense exercise focused on improving readiness, demonstrating capabilities and strengthening joint and allied forces interoperability in the Arctic. 

More than 200 airmen training with the Air Force's 368th Training Squadron learned about unmanned aerial systems during Bracer Forge, an exercise designed to cultivate Air Force airmindedness and the warrior ethos.

In addition to the extensive damage the U.S. and Israeli militaries have been inflicting upon the Iranian terrorist regime's active combat forces, the country's defense industrial base is now nearing complete destruction as well, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.  

The War Department has launched a task force to ensure the curriculum at its institutions of higher learning is structured to build warfighters rather than social justice warriors, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, the commander of U.S. European Command and supreme allied commander Europe said the U.S. military's relationship with its NATO partners throughout the region remains strong.