Global for Thursday, January 15, 2026

• Lunday becomes US Coast Guard’s 28th commandant
• Lockheed delivered record 191 F-35s as it cleared out TR-3 backlog
• Macron puts local defense firms on notice France may buy European
• Remains of Cuban officers killed during Venezuela strike repatriated
• ‘Department of War’ rebrand could cost up to $125 million, CBO says
• Saildrone, Lockheed to place missile launchers on naval drones
• US Navy to deploy unmanned systems with surface forces this year
• Latvia eyes indirect-fires boost with new Archer howitzer acquisition
• NATO nations send scouting teams to Greenland amid US annexation talk
• Czechoslovak Group plans stock-market listing amid Europe defense boom
• War powers resolution fails in Senate