American Defense Substack
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The Grenade That Shipped: Battelle
Original Article
COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 27, 2026) - Battelle recently partnered with the U.S. Army Close Combat Systems Program Office to support the Full Material Release (FMR) of the new M111 Offensive Hand Grenade (OHG), the first new off...
The Laser Works. The Coordination Didn’t.
The Pentagon and FAA just certified that a counter-drone laser won’t down an airliner. That was never the failure. Now the program is scaling to five bases — and the gap it leaves unaddressed is about to get a lot harder to manage.
In Febr...
Procedure Over Spectacle:
Thompson Technologies Defense Intelligence Desk
Three federal storylines have crowded the Department of Justice docket over the past month: a second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, a leadership shake-up inside the criminal p...
The Forty Boxes: Inside the CIA’s Custody Coup
Defense Intelligence Desk | May 14, 2026
Authors Personal Note: My grandfather started the Church Committee when he was forced out of the USG after 35 years of service. At a doctors appointment in 1972 the doctor suggested to him if he wer...
The Iran War at Day 71: Where Operation Epic Fury Leaves Us
The Bottom Line
Seventy-one days after coordinated U.S.-Israeli airstrikes opened the 2026 Iran War, the offensive phase is formally over and the strategic verdict is uncomfortable. On 5 May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Oper...
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R Dana Thompson is a defense industrialist, a third-generation commercial pilot, 2nd youngest graduate of US Army Infantry school, founder of GoldenDome.Vip, and CUAS Coalition LLC. Current interests in naval warfare and aerial defense.
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