Six House Republicans broke with GOP leadership on Wednesday, joining Democrats to advance legislation that would provide billions of dollars in additional support to Ukraine despite ongoing opposition from President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The House voted 218-204 in favor of a discharge petition that forces consideration of the Ukraine Support Act, a measure that had remained stalled for more than a year after Republican leaders declined to bring it to the floor.
The vote marks one of the most significant bipartisan challenges to Republican leadership on foreign.
U.S. missile defense has long been structured around protecting from intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) reentering the atmosphere from space. But today’s adversaries are innovating entirely different technologies.
The most immediate threats to the nation will come not from enemy missiles that are launched into space and then arc down toward us.
They will come from the “underlayer” — the low-altitude area where traditional radar coverage is weakest and terrain masking allows adversaries to approach undetected.
Our enemies no longer need nuclear missiles to wreak havoc on our soil.
A van outfitted with drones could threaten the power grid, a container ship in the Gulf of Mexico could launch cruise missiles at ports, or aircraft operating 500 miles off California could target our military bases.
The capability exists. The question is whether we can see it in time.
That same blind spot creates risks in peacetime, as our skies grow more crowded with drones, delivery aircraft and passenger planes. The underlayer is where America is blind — whether to adversaries or to accidents waiting to happen.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense news from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Cruise missiles are the present and future of warfare. There are two competing narratives about the future of warfare. For nearly the past two years, drones and artillery have been hailed as the way forward. The June 2025 Iran-Israel war revived the view that stealth warplanes are the future.
Get more F-35s in the air and don’t break the bank. You need to fix alarming mission-capability rates and rising sustainment costs for the Air Force’s F-35A fighter jet, senators told the service’s chief-of-staff nominee.
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Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for state and federal office, taught political science, wrote for the editorial board of a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad. To read more go to: paulcrespo.com.
In your essay regarding the changing nature of war, you missed the correct wording: you have “a container ship in the Gulf of Mexico” in the essay but the proper term is the Gulf of America.
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In your essay regarding the changing nature of war, you missed the correct wording: you have “a container ship in the Gulf of Mexico” in the essay but the proper term is the Gulf of America.