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Russian attacks kill 17 in Ukraine after Trump strikes diesel deal with Putin
Russian strikes killed at least 17 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel that Kyiv warned would help bankroll Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Israeli combat medicine slashes IDF deaths after Oct 7, draws US military interest
IDF battlefield medicine cut combat mortality rates from 15% to 7.1%, with advances in casualty evacuation and trauma care now benefiting the U.S. Army.
Unnerved Panamanians sleep in streets as aftershocks rattle quake-hit towns
Unnerved residents of rural Panama awoke Saturday on the streets as the aftershocks of two powerful earthquakes that roiled the country shook their communities for hours.
World Wars Don't Start All At Once
Francis P. Sempa, RealClearDefense Writing in the online journal...
This is Secretary Hegseth's Best Idea
Gary Anderson, RealClearDefense How will the Marine Corps prepare its officers to succeed in high tempo combat environments and to succeed in JWE?
Super Hornet Weapons Computer Can No Longer Be Supported
Defence Blog The U.S. Navy plans to have Boeing redesign parts of the computer that controls weapons and external stores on its F/A-18 and EA-18G fleet, after concluding that the current...
The Marine Corps' Cottonmouth ARV
Bea Castañeda, The Defense Post The Cottonmouth ARV is a prototype amphibious armored...
The Brigade and the Multidomain Breach
T.A. Price, P.T. Visser & A.R. Carter, MWI A specter looms over the US Army: the threat of positional warfare
The Golden Dome, Missile Defenses and Deterrence
S.J. Cimbala, Military Strategy As aerospace and other defense contractors line up to take part in early phases of research and development for Golden Dome, there are important questions to...
Not Like the Old Days: Modern Sea Control Will Be Episodic and Local
Strategist A new combination of surveillance, drones and precision strike is eroding the old assumption that navies could generate sea control through superior ships, vessels, aircraft...
Making Sparrows Point Great Again
CDR Salamander ...more shipyards are better than fewer...
The New Nineteenth Century
Victor F. Bruno, The Realist Review It was a long time in coming, but with the still ongoing conflict in Iran and in Ukraine, it is not unreasonable to talk about the end of the rules-based...
DoD Announces $350 Million in Quantum Computing Initiatives
Whitney, M+A Elec. The DoD is allocating approximately $350 million to support diverse quantum computing approaches and applications for national security
Honors
Karen McKay, RealClearDefense The North Carolina Department of Military and Veteran Affairs <a...
The airport in the Saudi capital has been attacked again, officials say
Two regional officials say the airport in the Saudi capital has been attacked again.
Thieves pull off Italy's biggest-ever wine heist, stealing 30,000 bottles worth 5 million euros
Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy's most prized wines worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.8 million) from a winery in Tuscany, in what the producer described Friday as the country's largest wine theft on record.
Trump to Norway after Nobel snub: 'We will not forget'
President Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving the Peace Prize he has long sought to South African jurist Navanethem "Navi" Pillay,…
Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections another year
President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree on Friday to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year.
Teen migrants are sleeping on Ceuta's streets as Spain delays in responding to the crisis
Hundreds of teenage migrants lined up outside a church in Ceuta in early October, hoping Spain's visiting minister of youth would bring them some good news: passage to continental Europe or at least a spot in a shelter.
A third school attack in less than a week shakes Poland
Police say a third attack at a Polish school in less than a week took place on Saturday, when a 21-year-old woman injured three people inside an educational institution in the capital, Warsaw, police said.
Bandit
Rick Baillergeon, Military Review The Inside Story of an Abrams Tank Company During Desert Storm
The Closing of the Russian Mind (Doesn't Bode Well for the Future)
Strategist Bogged down militarily in Ukraine, with Russia's economy in a shambles and Ukrainian drones penetrating ever deeper into the heartland and causing popular unrest, President...
War Plan Taiwan
Nathan K. Finney, Military Review OPLAN 5077 and the U.S. Struggle for the Pacific
China Muddies the Waters East of Taiwan
Erik Green, IISS The proliferation of Chinese actors in the waters east of Taiwan is a significant development in Beijing's grey-zone strategy
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