[ad_1] Photography Courtesy of Guerlain Plus, M.A.C Cosmetics reformulates their iconic matte lipsticks. By Lauren Knowles Date February 2, 2024 Guerlain unveils a new fragrance “Picture kilometers of orange tree fields,” says perfumer Delphine Jelk over a video call. “The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and there’s a freshness in the air.” Jelk is ...

[ad_1] Amid the recent catastrophes in the Middle East—the renewed Israel-Hamas war; widening violence in Lebanon, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea—one player counts the past year a success: China.  Beijing stacked up strategic win after win, not just expanding its economic presence, but convening leadership summits, brokering peace deals, and even holding ...

[ad_1] For at least the second night in a row, dozens of Russian drones targeted the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, damaging apartment buildings and injuring at least two people, Reuters reported Friday.  The Ukrainian military says it shot down 24 of 28 drones launched overnight Thursday. Another 34 out of 35 Shahed-131/-136 drones were ...

[ad_1] L3 Harris Technologies is selling its commercial aviation business to private equity firm TJC for $800 million as it retools the company to better focus on national security and technology.  Under the terms of the deal, TJC will pay $700 million up front and another $100 million “based on the achievement of certain 2023 ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI—The Pentagon’s innovation arm is going international.  Doug Beck, the new head of the Defense Innovation Unit, arrived in New Delhi to co-host an event with his Indian counterpart, Vivek Virmani, the chief operating officer for Innovations for Defence Excellence in the Indian defense ministry on Nov. 8. The India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem, ...

[ad_1] As the Army rushed to send weapons and munitions to Ukraine in February last year, it had some helpful factors in its favor: ample equipment already stored in Europe, civilian transportation companies eager to help, and relatively short distances to move the gear.  In the Pacific, it’s another story.  From how the Army gets ...

[ad_1] As the United States begins another presidential campaign season and conditions worsen in China, Russia, and Iran, this is a good time to step back and reconsider some of the conventional wisdom undergirding U.S. defense policy. Perhaps most flawed and underexamined is the concept of deterrence by denial.  The idea, which gained favor after ...

[ad_1] The White House just approved an arms sale to Taiwan under terms typically designed for sovereign countries. “The package is modest—only $80 million of what Congress had set aside as a potential $2 billion—but the implications of using the so-called Foreign Military Financing program to provide it infuriated China,” the Associated Press reported Thursday.  ...