Dustin Reed Terry is a U.S. Air Force veteran and independent journalist specializing in defense policy. He worked on the F-117A Nighthawk and deployed to South Korea. Proud member of the VFW. BA in International Relations. MS in Human Behavior.
Army
The nine-year-old startup born out of a Facebook firing is now the U.S. Army's most consequential weapons partner. Here's how it happened — and what it means for the future of American warfare. On the evening of Friday, March 14, 2026, the U.S. Army quietly
Active Duty
The federal government is proposing the most aggressive military pay raise in over two decades — and if Congress approves it, more than half a million troops and hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans could see significant gains heading into 2027. Here's a complete breakdown of what's
Active Duty
Missiles Rain on Kuwait and Bahrain; CENTCOM Responds With Qeshm Island Strikes; Kuwait Airport Hit on June 3 ATTRIBUTION NOTE: All claims in this article are sourced to named official statements from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense, Bahrain's Interior Ministry, Iran's
Active Duty
The ballroom of the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore has hosted some of the most consequential security speeches of the 21st century. Defense ministers, generals, and diplomats from across the Indo-Pacific gather each year at the International Institute for Strategic Studies' annual dialogue — a forum built precisely on the kind
Veterans
When President Donald Trump submitted his fiscal year 2027 budget proposal to Congress on April 3, 2026, buried inside a massive $1.5 trillion defense spending request was a promise to the men and women in uniform: the largest targeted pay raise for junior enlisted troops in nearly a quarter
Active Duty
When Pentagon comptroller Jules Hurst III stepped to the podium at the Department of Defense on April 21, he was about to announce a number that would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. The United States military, he told reporters, was requesting $1.5 trillion for
Veterans
Greg Rathburn spent years helping keep some of the most advanced aircraft in U.S. military history airborne. As an avionics technician in the Air Force and Air National Guard, he worked on the SR-71 Blackbird — a reconnaissance plane so secretive it flew at the edge of space, and so
Veterans
Every veteran knows about federal VA benefits. The disability compensation. The GI Bill. The VA home loan. The healthcare system. Those federal programs are the foundation of what this country offers the men and women who served — and they are critically important. But there is an entire second tier of
Marines
For most of its history, the United States Marine Corps has been defined by amphibious operations in warm-water theaters — the beaches of the Pacific, the shores of the Korean Peninsula, the deserts of the Middle East. The Corps has always prided itself on being ready to fight anywhere, but the
Army
In the predawn hours of May 4, 2026, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and MH-60 Seahawk gunships lifted off from U.S. Navy vessels in the waters near the Strait of Hormuz. Within hours, they had sunk six Iranian small boats that were threatening commercial shipping — the opening shots of Operation
News
The United States has approved a new $108.1 million sustainment package to keep Ukraine's hybrid FrankenSAM HAWK air defense batteries combat-ready, the latest chapter in one of the most unconventional defense partnerships to emerge from the war with Russia. The sale, formally announced by the State Department
Active Duty
On the evening of May 29, 2026, President Donald Trump sat in the White House Situation Room to make what aides described as a "final determination" about a framework for extending the ceasefire with Iran. The meeting ended without a clear decision being announced. Hours earlier, Trump had