The Military Report

09/29/2026

The future USS John F. Kennedy is finally leaving the shipyard behind, giving a stretched Navy another carrier increasingly close to joining the fleet.

The Navy has taken preliminary acceptance of the future USS John F. Kennedy, moving its newest aircraft carrier out of the shipyard phase and into a final period of testing and crew training before delivery next year. The Kennedy, CVN-79, is the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier and is no...

09/29/2026

After 23 years, America is leaving Iraq — but the forces that kept pulling it back in are still there.
https://themilitaryreport.com/field-notes/after-23-years-the-last-u-s-troops-leave-iraq-in-the-middle-of-another-war/

09/29/2026

One Navy, moving in opposite directions: ships coming home, ships heading out, and another crew taking the watch.

09/28/2026

The Navy isn’t shortening its carrier deployments. It thinks it's getting better at enduring them.
https://themilitaryreport.com/navy/roosevelt-heads-west-as-lincoln-still-steams-home/

09/22/2026

America didn’t get Greenland. The U.S. military got something it has had before — a way back in.

09/20/2026

Hegseth raised the bar for women in combat. More than 9 in 10 female Marines cleared it.
https://themilitaryreport.com/marine-corps/hegseth-raised-the-bar-women-marines-cleared-it/

09/19/2026

For 60 years, the military has debated taking the pilot out of the cockpit. Now the aircraft are finally arriving — but the argument over human judgment isn’t over.

More than half a century ago, the American military was already arguing about whether the pilot belonged in the airplane. Missiles were getting smarter. Computers were getting smaller. Guidance systems were improving. Unmanned aircraft were no longer entirely science fiction. If a machine could fly....

09/19/2026

The Pentagon may be looking at pulling thousands of troops from Europe, but Congress put a 76,000-troop tripwire in the law.
https://themilitaryreport.com/dod/trump-wants-25000-troops-out-of-europe-congress-says-not-so-fast/

09/19/2026

After 302 days deployed, USS Abraham Lincoln has reached Guam — and home is finally getting closer.
https://themilitaryreport.com/navy/lincoln-hits-guam-after-302-days-deployed/

09/17/2026

More than a year after an Army officer warned that drones had changed land warfare, America’s top general says U.S. troops must now expect to be hunted by them.
https://themilitaryreport.com/field-notes/the-general-says-american-troops-will-be-hunted-the-warning-came-a-year-ago/