U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they're learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years. The conflicting pressures are forcing a broader restructuring of commando teams that often are deployed for high-risk counterterrorism missions and other sensitive operations around the world. The changes under consideration are being influenced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including lessons learned by special operations forces there.

Britain's foreign secretary has said that halting arms exports to Israel is “not a wise path” and would only strengthen Hamas. Asked whether the U.K. would follow the U.S. in threatening to cut the supply of offensive weapons to Israel if it carried out an attack on Rafah, Foreign Secretary David Cameron said that Britain supplies only a very small amount of Israel’s weapons. He says arms sales licences can be withdrawn if it’s judged there’s “a serious risk of a serious international human rights violation.”

When two U.S. fighter jets recently faced off in a dogfight in California, only one was piloted by a human. The other was flown by AI, in a display of how far the U.S. military has come in its use of artificial intelligence. But it’s only a hint of the technology on the horizon. Among the new projects is one that could help the military keep operating and navigate by magnetic fields if a GPS satellite is attacked. But there are significant concerns, especially when it comes to whether AI-enabled weapons will be able to select and strike targets on their own.