Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, Brian covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times. Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the boom operator station of a KC-46. Before the military beat, Brian covered the Washington state legislature for the Associated Press.
The head of the U.S. military’s nuclear command has not recommended any posture changes more than two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ordering his nuclear forces to a “special mode” of alert.
Russia’s forces appear to be reassessing their approach and changing tactics as they advance into Ukraine from the north toward Kyiv, the Pentagon said March 1 in its latest assessment of the invasion.
The Pentagon is exploring ways to deconflict U.S. and Russian aircraft as airspace over Ukraine continues to be contested, though so far there has not been interest from Moscow as the invasion continues.
