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• ‘It was time’ to admit US has weapons in orbit, Space Force’s new leader says

  15-09-2026 19:58 via defenseone.com
  
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland—The advance of Chinese and Russian anti-satellite capabilities led the United States to admit it has weapons in space, the Space Force's top officer said on Tuesday, adding context to Monday’s bombshell revelation by the Air Force secretary.Deterrence remains the Space Force’s goal, but the service will pursue it from a “position of strength,” Gen. Douglas Schiess said during a keynote address at the Air, Space, and Cyber Conference here.&n
  
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• Iran strikes exposed gaps in medical evacuation ops across Middle East: IG

  15-09-2026 10:43 via defenseone.com
  
  The military abandoned plans to use Army helicopters to evacuate wounded troops involved in the war with Iran, and instead resorted to slower ground-based evacuations, in part due to the threat of drone strikes, according to a Defense Department Office of the Inspector General report released Monday. The shift illustrates a problem medical officials had  warned about for years.At the start of the operation, the U.S. used Army helicopters in Kuwait and Iraq for medical evacuation,
  
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