The BAR, and most of what you have heard about it.

Human approval may not be enough to ensure manual control over AI-enabled decisions, witnesses told Congress Wednesday, as artificial intelligence takes on a greater role in military target identification and recommendations, and in turn, compresses time available to intervene.The concern, critics say, is not limited to weapons that can select…

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emphasized that the joint force must prove readiness ahead of a conflict in a time when adversaries are becoming increasingly interconnected amid the changing character of war.The force needs to be “clear-eyed” about the environment ahead as future conflicts will…

This year, the U.S. Army’s top drill sergeants had to do more than hurl toe-curling insults and foam at the mouth like ferocious, rabid wolves. On Wednesday, the service wrapped up an intensive 72-hour competition to determine the Army’s best broad-brimmed hat-wearing men and women, announcing the contest’s first winners…

PSA put the JAKL in .308. Have a look.

Battalion Commanders in the Army can now nominate senior enlisted leaders for promotion — and increased pay — commensurate with their position. Commanders can formally recommend the promotion of sergeants first class to master sergeant with the soldier’s appointment to the role of first sergeant, the service announced Wednesday. “We…

A U.S. Army basic trainee was struck by a vehicle and killed while on foot along a busy interstate outside of an Oklahoma base this week. Pfc. Ocean K. Winfrey, 27, was assigned to the 434th Field Artillery Brigade to complete Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, the Army said.…

A cartel case in Wyoming, and the power grid.

KYIV, Ukraine — The possibility of an adversary detonating a nuclear weapon in space to disrupt U.S. satellite infrastructure and the global communications networks that rely on it is no longer a remote scenario, according to multiple officials — and American forces are not prepared for it, strategists found after…

198,000 rounds in one week. He’s got questions for Utah.

A Missouri man who claimed conscientious objector status in 1966 pleaded guilty this week to submitting fake combat awards and documents in order to reap Veterans Affairs benefits, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office, Western District of Missouri, said in a statement Tuesday. James Lyon, 80, admitted to submitting fraudulent documents…

Deported or not, nobody’s saying yet.