MWI The United States is actively losing a war it barely acknowledges.

Lauren C. Williams, Defense One Our adversaries are using quantum. How advanced are their capabilities? We don’t totally know …

T. Moerenhout, K. Brunelli, Foreign Affairs To Catch Up to China, America and Its Allies Must Dig

Brian McElhiney, Stars and Stripes LCpl Devin J. Hernandez died Tuesday evening of injuries he sustained during fast-rope training at Marine Corps Camp Schwab

C. Nye, National Interest Washington has shut Chinese-connected cars out of its own market and military bases. Yet its allies are letting them onto the bases where American forces serve.

This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 5th of November2026 0:00 — 👋 Intro: the elections in two sentences 0:25 — 🚢 Diesel deal dies: tankers turn away from New York 0:54 — 🎯 Schumer: end Iran war, arm Ukraine — 2027 will escalate 1:50 — 🇪🇸 Zelenskyy’s European sprint reaches Madrid 3:12 — 🚀 Night strikes: 128 drones, warehouses razed near Kyiv 5:10 — 🚂 Electric trains burn — steam engines return 6:08 — 🔥 Prydniprovska pounded again — "just ruins left" 6:50 — 🛢️ 496 drones at Russia — Ryazan refinery burning (5th–6th hit) 7:58 — ⚠️ TONIGHT: 30 ballistics ready — Kyiv’s CHPs and substations targeted 9:34 — ⏳ The 7-day water countdown: 3–5 days left 11:14 — 🗺️ Post-election map: Russian foothold now in artillery range of Zaporizhzhia 12:45 — 🔄 Ukrainian counteroffensive recaptures Orikhiv 13:12 — ⚔️ Russia opens major offensive on Bilozerske 14:02 — 🎯 Lyman offensive restarts — "Vivaldi" gains erased 14:36 — 💥 Kharkiv: attacks intensify — "the battle is inevitable" Marketing: marketing@militarysummary.com Android Military Summary Map Application: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.militarysummary.app&pli=1 iOS Military Summary MapApplication: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6477433117 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/military.summary.official Telegram channel: https://t.me/militarysummary X: https://twitter.com/MilitarySummary #russia #ukrainewar

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series exploring the Golden Dome for America proposal. Please also read the first, “Golden Dome Is Technologically and Financially Infeasible.”Golden Dome is an ambitious proposal for a comprehensive, layered defense, with ground, sea, and space-based elements. It is supposed to protect the United States, its allies, and deployed forces from attacks by ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, aircraft, and drones launched by any adversary, including peer adversaries. The Golden Dome executive order also mandates further development of capabilities to defeat an adversary’s missiles before they are launched.A key The post The Golden Dome Proposal is Destabilizing and Dangerous appeared first on War on the Rocks.

In spring 2026, Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and disrupted a covert Arctic exercise off the coast of Norway involving Russian deep-sea submersibles simulating the deployment of a weapon designed to disable the two 1,400-kilometer submarine cables linking the islands of Svalbard to mainland Norway. Svalbard hosts a satellite ground station serving Europe, the United States, and Japan. This encounter revealed that NATO allies can detect a covert subsea operation and, if caught in time, disrupt it.Had it been a real attack, the first question would have been where and how quickly internet and sensitive government traffic could The post Who Repairs the Internet in Wartime? appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Footage released on November 4 has shown China’s most capable air superiority fighter the J-20 in a rare air-to-air combat configuration, with the aircraft integrating eight PL-15 air-to-air missiles on external underwing pylons. Referred to informally as ‘beast most’ in the Western world, such configurations allow fifth generation fighters to significantly expand their firepower, with externally carried weaponry supplementing that already inside fighters’ internal weapons bays. This seriously compromises the radar evading stealth profiles of the fighters, however, allowing them to be detected, tracked, and locked onto at much longer ranges. Fifth generation fighters accordingly usually integrate their entire missile arsenals in internal weapons bays, with the J-20’s bays able to accommodate eight missiles including six radar guided missiles in a main bay, and one smaller infrared guided missile in each of its two side bays.Footage first circulated in February 2025 showing a J-20 carrying what appeared to be eight PL-15 beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles, mounted in pairs on four underwing pylons. A further video emerged in September 2025 showing another aircraft in a similar configuration, indicating that the arrangement was not necessarily limited to a single isolated test. The aircraft in the earlier footage appeared to have a yellowish primer…

Following the Democratic Party’s decisive victories in the November 2026 midterm elections, which will give it control of both chambers of Congress from January, the Trump administration’s proposed BBG(X) battleship program is expected to face substantially greater scrutiny. The unconventional program’s enormous projected costs, uncertain operational requirements and potential to divert resources from other naval modernisation priorities, have long made them controversial, with cancellation having appeared likely from the outset. Unveiled in December 2025 as part of President Trump’s proposed Golden Fleet initiative, the program envisages constructing a new generation of exceptionally large guided-missile warships displacing approximately 35,000 tons each, or three to four times the size of the Arleigh Burke class destroyers that form the backbone of the fleet. The program’s projected costs have become one of its greatest obstacles. Estimates published by the Congressional Budget Office in August 2026 indicated that the first BBG(X) could cost approximately $23 billion, while subsequent vessels could average around $18 billion each. This would make even the subsequent ships considerably more expensive than the Navy’s Gerald Ford class aircraft carriers on a per-vessel basis in some comparisons. Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed…

President Donald Trump repeatedly urged Americans throughout the recent election campaign to vote as though his name appeared on the midterm ballot. After Democrats captured both chambers of Congress, he emphasized that they apparently didn’t. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Salute to America Celebration, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) The reversal followed a campaign in which Trump made himself the central Republican messenger, promoted his administration’s record and appealed directly to supporters who had returned him to the White House in 2024. The strategy backfired, as opposition to the president became a powerful driver of Democratic gains in traditional Republican strongholds that ultimately cost the GOP its congressional control. A Trump-Centric Campaign “You have to pretend I’m on the ballot,” Trump told rally-goers in Georgia in October. The core message of the Trump-centric GOP campaign was reiterated in the lead-up to the election, including the night before Tuesday’s vote when the president again repeated it on Sean Hannity’s program. According to White House spokesman Davis Ingle, the reason is that the president is “the unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator for the…

Following the Republican Party’s crushing defeat in the midterm elections this week, President Donald Trump repeatedly insisted that the results had nothing to do with a widespread disapproval of his presidency. Voter data, however, showed otherwise. According to AP’s 2026 voter poll, which surveyed voters in all 50 states, a huge percentage of Americans of every race told AP that their disapproval of Trump’s second term in the White House played a key role in their decision to vote on Tuesday. President Donald J. Trump participates in a roundtable discussion in support of Wisconsin farmers at Custer Farms in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) Donald Trump Back in 2016 Creative Commons Photo Young Voters Overwhelmingly Expressed Opposition to Trump’s Job in White House 60% of African American and black voters told AP that they voted in the midterms, at least in part, to “express opposition to Donald Trump.” Just 4% of African American and black voters said they voted to “express support for Donald Trump,” while 36% said Trump was not a factor. 50% of Hispanic voters also told AP they voted to express opposition to the president, while…

The Democratic Party’s massive victory in Tuesday’s midterm elections appears to have been driven more by dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump than enthusiasm for the Democrats themselves. The party, after all, is still struggling to define itself amid ongoing internal battles over Woke radicalism, Israel, and more. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the CHCI 47th Annual Legislative Conference, Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Kamala Harris. Image Credit: Creative Commons. New polling proves it, too: an Associated Press voter survey, published on Wednesday, November 4, found that only around half of voters held a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party despite its sweeping victories across the country, including in Republican states. Roughly two-thirds believed that President Trump had the wrong priorities, and around seven in ten said Congress was failing to provide sufficient checks on his actions as president. The survey’s findings suggest that Democrats benefited from a large coalition of voters demanding political change but disagreeing on what changes to make, with many unconvinced by Democrats’ policies or leadership. The circumstances are reminiscent of Britain’s 2024 general election, when Keir Starmer’s…

Democrats wrestled back control of the US Congress from the Republicans, along with many key offices across the country in this year’s midterm elections, which many see as a rebuke of US President Donald Trump and his policies. Battleground States Flipped, Many Strongholds Decimated In Texas, the GOP suffered a stunning and historic defeat, with both liberal senatorial and gubernatorial candidates winning their respective races. President Donald Trump is joined by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Vice President JD Vance, British Ambassador Peter Mandelson, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, while announcing a trade agreement with the U.K., Thursday, May 8, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins) President Donald Trump is joined by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Vice President JD Vance, British Ambassador Peter Mandelson, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, while announcing a trade agreement with the U.K., Thursday, May 8, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins) James Talarico is now Senator-elect, handily beating Attorney General Ken Paxton 55.1% to 43.0%. Incumbent Governor Greg Abbott will also vacate the governor’s mansion on January 19,…

As Republicans struggle to make sense of last night’s defeat and plan their next steps, US President Donald Trump has not been shy about saying what is on his mind after what many see as a rebuke of his performance in office. Trump: Between Rage and Resignation “Pretend I’m on the ballot,” Trump had repeatedly urged supporters during dozens of campaign rallies leading up to this year’s midterm elections. President Donald J. Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025 (DoD photo by Benjamin Applebaum) President Donald J. Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025 (DoD photo by Benjamin Applebaum) It seems voters took him up on the offer, with what many are calling a “blue wave” serving as a stinging indictment of the president, his policies, and his decision-making through the first half of his second term. Since news of election results came in — with the vast majority of races already decided — Trump has vacillated between congratulating Democrats, blasting fellow party mates, and threatening to veto Democrat-led legislative initiatives. Speaking to The New York Times, the president said he was “willing to…

French shipbuilder Naval Group has unveiled the SCX26, a concept for a future stealth destroyer designed to operate as a command hub for crewed warships and large numbers of uncrewed aerial, surface and underwater systems. Presented at the Euronaval 2026 exhibition in Paris on November 3, the design combines a substantial missile arsenal, distributed sensors and extensive facilities for deploying, recovering and maintaining drones. Naval Group describes the vessel as a research and technology demonstrator concept rather than a warship intended for immediate construction, using it to explore how surface combatants could evolve in response to emerging threats and advances in automation. The SCX26 is approximately 170 metres long, with a full-load displacement estimated at around 8,000 to 10,000 tons. Naval Group envisages a maximum speed of 30 knots and a range of up to 8,000 nautical miles, supported by a combined diesel-electric and gas-turbine (CODLAG) propulsion system. Its size would place it above France’s current FDI frigates and within the category of large surface combatants designed to conduct air defence, anti-submarine warfare and long-range strike missions. The concept has reportedly progressed beyond preliminary artwork to include hydrodynamic model testing, although no construction schedule or procurement commitment has been announced. One…

Republicans entered the Midterms holding 53 Senate seats. The Democrats had a difficult path to reclaiming the Upper Chamber, given all the metrics they needed to break. At the start of this year, it was improbable that the Democrats would achieve that victory. The Democrats needed a net gain of four seats to reach a majority (assuming their existing seats remained intact). The Democrats did not just win. Barack Obama Back in 2024 Creative Commons Photo Barack Obama. Creative Commons Photo. They took the victory, spiked the football, and then bought the proverbial stadium. Consider this: the Democrats won the states everyone assumed they’d win. Then the Democratic Party turned Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, and Maine blue. This victory showed that the American people were fed up with the Republican Party–specifically, Donald J. Trump–and their repeatedly demonstrated incompetence. Meanwhile, the Democrats held on to the once-ruby-red Georgia, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Minnesota. Everything Is Bigger In Texas–Including Democratic Wins One of the most stunning parts of the Democratic victory was how Texas went blue. If this isn’t a demonstration of a true national political recalibration, I don’t know what is. State Representative James Talarico defeated Trump-endorsed,…

The Eurofighter consortium is targeting potential sales of more than 200 additional fighter aircraft, with several European and overseas customers considering further purchases as demand for combat aviation increases. The consortium assessed that substantial opportunities remain to expand the aircraft’s order backlog exist, potentially sustaining production and supporting operations of the fighter into the 2060s. These projections have raised serious questions, however, with the aircraft having failed to perform well on foreign markets, and other than a small early sale of 12 fighters to Austria, having secured no contracts outside the Middle East. Jointly developed and manufactured by Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo on behalf of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, the fighter has not only proved uncompetitive on export markets, but has also increasingly been overlooked by its partner countries. Despite considerable pressure  from local industry the United Kingdom has permanently shelved plans to purchase more Eurofighters, and plans to continue to withdraw them from service decades ahead of schedule. It has simultaneously continued orders for F-35A fighters. Germany has similarly sharply reversed its prior opposition to F-35 procurements as it became increasingly clear that prioritising protecting local industry would seriously constrain combat capabilities due to the Eurofighter’s…

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Data scientists and other technical specialists were embedded next to uniformed military personnel inside U.S. Transportation Command’s global operations center for the first time during Operation Epic Fury to rapidly prototype AI-enabled tools in support of real-world warfare needs. Those experts generated roughly “33 apps in just the first two weeks alone of OEF,” Transcom’s Chief Data and AI Officer Ryan Samuelson told DefenseScoop. In an exclusive interview at the National Defense Transportation Association’s annual Fall meeting in Texas last week, Samuelson shed new light on Transcom’s use of AI and the Maven Smart System to accelerate strategic decision-making and data-sharing over the course of the Iran war. “Decision advantage is how you shape outcomes ahead of when you need to actually move,” he said. ‘The power of it’ Transcom is responsible for moving troops and cargo worldwide for all U.S. combatant commands and defense agencies, and also transferring sick and injured troops to medical facilities for specialized treatments and recovery. The Joint Distribution Process Analysis Center — or JDPAC — operates as the command’s analytic, engineering, and modeling engine within the global defense transportation network. Transcom is known as an influential early adopter of Palantir’s Maven…

The neocons want to send your children to fight no matter what Public Domain Originally posted on April 23, 2025 The neocons want war with Iran, and they will do anything to get it — say anything, do anything, lie, steal cheat…whatever they need to do. If we value our republic, we must stop this outcome in the Middle East. America cannot afford another major war, and yes, this will be a major war, touching off a global conflagration. People you are close to will die. These deaths will not just happen in the Middle East, Iran has imported a vast cadre of terrorists inside the United States thanks to Manchurian candidate Biden. It could happen at a shopping mall, a gas station, a grocery store, a day care. America will not be able live ‘life as normal’ after an attack on Iran. We also can’t afford it. The Biden regime depleted our weapons stores in Ukraine. Our military is up to its eyeballs in DEI, Maoist indoctrination. A war with Iran will not end well for us. The globalist cabal sees the Ukraine war ending, time to start another one, to finish off America, and let the Chinese hordes…

Another enormous Russian attack struck Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, overnight on Tuesday, and saw drones and missiles rain down on the city. The attack, which targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, comes a week before peace talks headed by the United States are set to begin in Abu Dhabi. U.S. Air Force Maj. Josiah “Sirius” Gaffney, Pacific Air Forces Demonstration Team commander, prepares to fly a practice sortie before the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 11, 2021. In addition to the PACAF F-16 Demonstration Team routine, the air show will highlight a variety of U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft showcasing the range of U.S. military airpower capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Kakaris) Bohdan, a drone pilot from the Unmanned Systems Battalion of Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, pilots an FPV drone in Donetsk Oblast during active battle operations. Photo: David Kirichenko According to reports, Russian munitions struck over a dozen energy facilities in nine of Ukraine’s regions. Out of the 17 ballistic missiles Russia fired at Ukraine, only three of the missiles were successfully intercepted. The low interception rate reflects the difficult squeeze Ukrainian air defenses are currently under. “The Russians carried…

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U.S. Army paratroopers prepare a packable drone in the field. Photo: U.S. Army At last month’s Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference in Washington, D.C., Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, joined on a panel by the interim leadership tasked to stand it up, reaffirmed plans for something the Pentagon has been inching toward for a decade: a four-star United States Autonomous Warfare Command (AUTOWARCOM), built to pull artificial intelligence (AI), drones, and robotic systems out of a dozen scattered service programs and into one joint structure. Hegseth called it “the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history” and said drone warfare “supercharged by AI-enabled targeting is the biggest battlefield revolution in generations.” The announcement left the central question implied rather than answered: how will AUTOWARCOM change the way the United States fights? The answer is already taking shape in four missions that have always depended on putting people in harm’s way: intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); strike; casualty evacuation; and personnel recovery. In each, autonomy is rewriting the operational math. In each, the progress is scattered across separate program offices. AUTOWARCOM is the Pentagon’s bet that one command can pull it together. The Announcement Hegseth first unveiled the…

President Donald Trump blamed Fox News for contributing to the devastating losses the Republicans endured in yesterday’s midterm elections, even going as far as to criticize the network’s polling operation despite its surveys having accurately assessed the coming Democratic victories. In several Truth Social posts on Tuesday, November 3, the president complained about the network’s coverage of the Democrats and suggested that Fox News bore some responsibility for the losses. President Donald Trump sits for an interview with Fox News journalist Rachel Campos Duffy, Monday, April 14, 2025.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) In a subsequent telephone interview with the network, he said the network’s polls were “terrible.” Fox News anchor Bret Baier pushed back, however, responding, “Tonight, actually, the results are pretty close to what the Fox polls showed.” Numbers across the board suggest that Baier had a point. Trump’s Comments Writing shortly before midnight on Tuesday, the president blamed Fox for the Democrats’ massive victories across the country. “Why does Fox News [six] have Bill de Blasio, the Worst Mayor in the History of New York City, on air, ranting and raving like a Lunatic?” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He left the City in disgrace, and…

The Iran War began on February 28, with little discussion or even fanfare. Whereas the George W. Bush administration took months to make its (flawed) case for the Iraq War, the Trump administration was ambivalent–almost glib–in its decision to initiate a costly war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dubbed a “short excursion” by President Donald Trump and his allies, the war is now in its ninth month (and counting). U.S. Paratroopers, assigned to 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, fire a Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missile at the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Dec. 13, 2022. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands’ areas of responsibility.(U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger) U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2-11 Long Range Fires Battalion, 25th Infantry Division Artillery, fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a counter-landing live-fire exercise as part of Exercise Balikatan 2026 at La Paz Sand Dunes, Laoag City, Philippines, May 4, 2026. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military that represents the strength…

The Republican Party lost badly in yesterday’s midterm election. That wasn’t because of fraud. Or because Americans didn’t just understand the supposed greatness of one Donald Trump. In fact, the American voter understood what was going on all too well. The president and his party were overwhelmingly elected in 2024 to fix the economy, but over the last two years they did everything but fix it. A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron is undergoes pre-flight procedures at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Aug. 8. The aircraft conducted a captive-carry flight test of the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon Instrumented Measurement Vehicle 2 at the Point Mugu Sea Range off the Southern California coast. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem) A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing prepares to depart for a Bomber Task Force mission at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 18, 2025. These bomber missions are representative of the U.S. commitment to our allies and enhancing regional security. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jaiyah Lewis) The final straw for the voters was Trump’s war of choice in Iran. Because of that war, the US economy has…

Ukraine answered Washington’s one-way “energy ceasefire” with a thousand drones. President Trump has called for an energy ceasefire that has been completely ignored by Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of launching at least 76 attacks on energy or oil and gas targets over a week’s time last month. MSTA Russian Artillery Creative Commons Image Artillery from Ukraine War Creative Commons Image And the Ukrainians, seeing Trump easing sanctions on Moscow, are responding in kind. “Over this past week, the Russians have attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic,” Zelenskyy said. ” Overnight into Sunday, October 18, Kyiv launched one of the largest aerial attacks of the war, sending waves of long-range drones toward Moscow, St. Petersburg and a broad swath of western Russia. According to ABC News, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed its air defenses shot down 1,015 of them. That’s Moscow’s count of what it shot down. The oil terminal burning on the evening news tells you how many got through. St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said emergency crews were battling fires at the city’s oil terminal, the Ruchyi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpinsky…

For the past decade, Donald Trump has shown remarkable political resilience—surviving scandals, criminal convictions, and personal controversies that would have derailed the careers of nearly any other politician. Yet Trump is now implicated in a landslide defeat, suffered yesterday during the 2026 midterms, that seems to stem from general disapproval of the Iran war. An A-10C Thunderbolt II sits under a sun shade July 29, 2014, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The A-10’s primary weapon is a single 30mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun. It can also carry up to 16,000 pounds of mixed ordnance such as cluster bomb units, joint direct attack munitions and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Ryan Callaghan) U.S. Air Force Capt. Kristin “Beo” Wolfe, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team commander and pilot, takes off from Selfridge Air National Guard base for the 2020 London SkyDrive Air Show in Canada Sep. 12, 2020, Harrison Township, Mich. The F-35 Demo Team flew alongside the F-16 Viper, the F-22 Raptor, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, and the Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration teams in London, Ontario, Canada. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner) How consequential was the Iran war to the Republican defeat?…

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As President Donald J. Trump prepares for his final two years in office, bogged down by Democrat-led investigations, rumors are swirling online that the president may even be considering resigning rather than facing a third impeachment. Unverified claims suggest the president is aware of the threat and is privately weighing his options to save his legacy. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak privately in the Vermeil Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) Donald Trump in the Oval Office Again, there is no evidence the claims are true. Still, they raise an interesting question his administration will need to confront: could the Democrats use their new majorities in both chambers of Congress to finally impeach a president they spent a decade trying to remove from politics? And would, in fact, it be worth it for the Democrats — if only to destroy his legacy? Jeffries Says Democrats Haven’t Discussed Impeachment Not only are the claims unverified, but House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries also told reporters on Wednesday that nobody in his caucus has yet raised the possibility of impeaching the president. “I haven’t had…

The U.S. military was keeping a close eye on a Russian satellite that raised alarms in recent weeks as it maneuvered near a commercial synthetic aperture radar satellite, according to the Space Force’s top officer. The incident involving Russia’s Cosmos 2612 and a system operated by ICEYE — a company that owns a large constellation of SAR satellites and provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to governments — occurred amid growing concerns about Moscow’s space-based weapons that could threaten other platforms on orbit, including military and commercial sats. ICEYE technologies have been used to support Ukraine, which is at war with Russia. Earlier this year, the company announced a new agreement to expand its space-based intelligence assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces. American national security agencies were keeping tabs on Cosmos 2612, Gen. Douglas Schiess, chief of space operations, suggested Wednesday during an event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “The U.S. government, the U.S. Space Force, is the best there is in the world at space domain awareness and having the ability to know what’s going on in space, so obviously we were tracking that situation. We were working through that. Our component commander out at Vandenberg…

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and has since served five terms. She’s been re-elected repeatedly, even as Maine has become bluer, and despite numerous near-misses. In 2020, Collins was trailing in nearly all polls to Democrat Sarah Gideon but still won one more term, making her the longest-serving Republican in the Senate. Donald Trump Speaking in 2024. Creative Commons Image. Trump Happy Back in 2024 Creative Commons Photo But on Tuesday, the 73-year-old Collins was finally defeated, as part of the massive blue wave that cost Republicans their control of both houses of Congress. And the candidate who beat her, Troy Jackson, wasn’t even the Democrats’ first choice. While many of the states Democrats flipped on Tuesday were red, Trump lost Maine in all three of his presidential runs, except for one electoral vote he won in each election, thanks to Maine’s proportional representation. A Maine Flip According to NPR, citing AP data, Democrat Troy Jackson won 53.8 percent of the vote, compared to Collins’s 46.1 percent, with 89 percent of the vote counted. Jackson is a logger by trade who later served for many years in the state Senate, including stints…

This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 4th of November2026 0:00 — 👋 Intro: the day after the vote — and the real games begin 1:17 — 📅 Trump’s 60 days: Congress doesn’t change until January 2:30 — 🚢 Third carrier — Theodore Roosevelt — racing to the Arabian Sea 4:10 — ⚡ Kyiv in darkness: vehicles are the only light 5:01 — ☢️ The nuclear trap: why Russia won’t hit the three plants 7:20 — 🔌 Nalyvaikivka 750 kV — the NPP connector — destroyed 8:54 — 🔄 Ukraine’s answer: exporting power west by the hundreds of megawatts 10:50 — 🎯 Phase two: border substations Vinnitsa and Zakhidna in the crosshairs 12:46 — 🕳️ The "silent coup": NABU raids Zelenskyy’s power base 15:50 — 💥 SBU resistance — and the arrest video of a general 18:14 — 🤐 Zelenskyy silent, stranded in Europe as his "empire burns" 21:52 — 🚀 Odesa strikes resume after a month-long pause 23:35 — ⚠️ Unity Day provocation: thousands of drones expected tonight 24:37 — 🗺️ Ground: Ukrainian gains near Orikhiv, DRGs push deeper Marketing: marketing@militarysummary.com Android Military Summary Map Application: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.militarysummary.app&pli=1 iOS Military Summary MapApplication: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6477433117 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/military.summary.official Telegram channel:…

It’s not normally necessary for a president, after a midterm election wipeout, to declare that he won’t contest the results. Bill Clinton didn’t do that after 1994, nor did George W. Bush after 2006, or Barack Obama in 2010, when their parties suffered huge midterm losses. President Donald Trump delivers the Commencement address at the graduation ceremony for the University of Alabama, Thursday, May 1, 2025, at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a National Day of Prayer event, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in the White House Rose Garden. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) But because Donald Trump refused to accept his defeat in the 2020 election, a stance he continues to hold to this day, it’s actually newsworthy for Trump to accept an election defeat. According to Axios, Trump did just that Tuesday night in an election-night interview with The New York Times. Trump said he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results, and even vowed to work with the new Democratic majority in Congress. “We’ll, you know, look forward to working with them,” the president told the newspaper in a phone interview. “We’ll…

From never playing the bagpipes to performing for an entire battalion in just six months⚠️ Young pipers from 4 Scots face an intense three-week boot camp in Cyprus as they prepare for the spectacular Beating Retreat. More: https://www.forcesnews.com/operations/cyprus/young-jocks-4-scots-take-british-army-style-bagpipe-boot-camp-cyprus #bfbsforcesnews #forcesnews #news #uk #shorts #army #military #bagpipe #music #cyprus #bootcamp

On December 24, 2013, Jeff Monken was announced as the 37th head football coach at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Then-athletic director Boo Corrigan outlined the qualities the institution sought in its coaching search.“We want a successful head coach who understands the challenges of working at a service academy, one who could help us win immediately and one who understands the importance of West Point’s mission,” Corrigan said.Also Read: Ford is launching the ‘Army-Navy Game for NASCAR’ with the Veterans Day ClassicNow in his 13th season with the Black Knights, Monken has proved repeatedly that he is the right man for the job. Throughout his tenure, he has built a culture based on daily habits that promote accountability, self-discipline, teamwork, humility, servant-minded leadership, and a commitment to excellence. Those are qualities that apply to both college football players and future Army officers.“The core values of our program and the core values of this institution, West Point, really foster a culture where the Army values become really important,” Monken told We Are The Mighty. “We Owe Them Our Very Best” Army coach Jeff Monken has led the Black Knights to 6 victories against Navy, including in 2017 in…

Money can buy a lot of things in the Persian Gulf. It can’t buy peace. The New York Times ran a piece this week arguing that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and their neighbors desperately need their economies to return to normal. It’s hard to argue with the premise. ATACMS Like Used in Ukraine Creative Commons An ATACMS missile being launched from an M270 MLRS. Nine months into the conflict with Iran, the economic numbers coming out of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are ugly. But the more interesting question buried in the Times story is whether “normal” is still on the table. It isn’t. At least not the version of normalcy the Gulf spent the last decade selling to the world. The Numbers Are Worse Than The Headlines The International Monetary Fund now expects economic output across the Gulf Cooperation Council to fall 5 percent this year. Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar are facing double-digit contractions because nearly everything they sell must pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has made that trip very expensive due to the rise in insurance costs from the IRGC’s attacks on shipping in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that its economy shrank 3.8 percent…

Following the Republican Party’s crushing defeat in the midterm elections this week, President Donald Trump is now a “lame duck president” with “little left to lose,” reported Newsweek senior editor Shane Croucher in an article suggesting that he could start working with the Democrats. Asked what he would do this week should Republicans lose the midterms, Trump initially threatened to become “Mr. Veto” and block the Democrats from implementing any legislation. Caleb Larson reports on an Iran war entering its sixth month: a Pentagon cost figure disputed as an undercount, Republicans tepid on more funding, and Trump warning of a ‘last chance’ and ‘decapitation.’ Reuters reports tankers running the Houthi blockade dark while others divert, and The Guardian says Riyadh may be preparing a land offensive. President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, Monday, July 27, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) His stance softened following the Democratic Party’s blue tsunami victory, however. “My message is, congratulations to the Democrats, and I look forward to working with you for the good of the country,” he told CBS News. Reacting to the president’s remarks, Croucher wrote, “This is the lame duck…

The number of armed conflicts has increased in recent years, and researchers have warned that many wars are lasting longer and have become more difficult to end. We asked five experts if the 21st-century trend of more intractable wars is continuing, and if so, why.Read more below.Dafna H. Rand Senior Fellow at Brookings Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Wars are not ending definitively in the 21st century, and the United States is likely to see the same pattern in Iran. Whereas peace settlements or victory by one side was once the culmination of war, today the more likely scenarios The post Why Are Wars Increasingly Difficult to End? appeared first on War on the Rocks.

The US Department of State has approved a potential Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) guided rockets and associated equipment to Jordan, valued at an estimated cost of $100m.

At least 40 people are dead and dozens of others unaccounted for after a Russian bombing attack on an aid center in southeast Ukraine, local authorities said on Wednesday. Search teams were working through their third day at the site of the devastating explosion at a former school and basement shelter in the town of Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region close to the front line. Putin in Meeting In January 2023 Creative Commons Photo Putin Back in 2025 Creative Commons Photo Yevhenii Tokariev, a top regional policing official, said on Wednesday: “We are gathering information on exactly how many people may have been inside the building and analyzing the available data. Relatives are calling to report loved ones they have lost contact with. We continue our work.” Police Forced to Identify Victims With DNA Police said some of those still unaccounted for may have been among the deceased, adding that over 30 people may still be beneath the rubble. It is unknown how many might still be alive. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that 33 people had died and five had been rescued from the site. Some of the bodies could not be identified by sight. Police from the…

How the Army makes decisions, communicates orders, coordinates forces, and keeps operations moving toward a common goal is undergoing a revolution. It’s called Next Generation Command and Control. Two of its architects — Lt. Gen. Matthew W. McFarlane, commanding general of I Corps, and Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Ellis, commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division — joined us to discuss this important set of organizational and technological innovations.Our thanks to AeroVironment for sponsoring the event at which this episode was recorded.Image: Kathryn Bailey via DVIDS The post The Army’s Command-and-Control Reboot appeared first on War on the Rocks.

The US is likely to see a period of change in defence, following the results of the midterm elections that saw Democrats make large gains.

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Kyiv has renewed planned power outages after a volley of missiles and drones damaged key water infrastructure. Ukraine’s grid operator lifted emergency outages in the capital and surrounding area by Wednesday afternoon. MSTA Artillery Firing Creative Commons Image MSTA Russian Artillery Creative Commons Image It comes just days after a major Russian aerial assault on an underground shelter and aid center in the Zaporizhzhia region. More than 40 people were reportedly killed in the attack on Monday, with dozens more still thought to be trapped under rubble. Pressure Too Low Kyivvodokanal, Kyiv’s water supplier, said water pressure was low on the right bank of the Dnipro River that flows through the city. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Tuesday that the city faced an “extremely difficult” power situation as infrastructure damage affected the power supply. Warm centers have opened in the worst-affected areas, where residents can charge their phones and “have a cup of hot tea.” Early on Wednesday, DTEK confirmed that planned outages were still paused and workers are repairing damage. However, later in the day, Ukrenergo, the national grid operator, said the grid had been partially restored, and most areas were back on planned outages. Emergency outages were…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on November 4 that four oil tankers had been destroyed by naval mines south of the Strait of Hormuz and that it had stopped two other vessels. The IRGC, which Washington lists as a terrorist organization, gave no ship names, flags, or casualty figures. Reuters could not independently verify the claim. (Oct. 16, 2025) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) renders honors to the USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), Oct. 16, 2025. Paul Ignatius is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations to support the warfighting effectiveness, lethality and readiness of U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, and defend U.S., Allied and partner interests in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Bradley Wolff) ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 06, 2008) – The guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) steams through the Atlantic Ocean. Roosevelt is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) in support of maritime security operations in the Navy’s 5th and 6th fleet areas of responsibility. The Iwo Jima ESG is made up of Roosevelt, homeported at Mayport, Fla.; the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7); the amphibious dock landing…

Ukraine on Tuesday night carried out a massive drone attack on Russia, using 1,000 drones, that hit both a Russian oil refinery in St. Petersburg and a large data center. According to ABC News, the drones also appeared to strike a bridge in St. Petersburg. Ukraine Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Creative Commons. Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Industry Handout. Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed that it had shot down more than 1,000 drones, which means it was one of Ukraine’s largest drone barrages since the war began. St. Petersburg’s governor, Alexander Beglov, in a Telegram post cited by ABC News, named the “St. Petersburg oil terminal, the Ruchyi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpinsky District” as sites that were damaged in the drone attack, and said that emergency services crews were working to put out fires at those places. Beglov also said that one person was killed and five were injured. In addition, per ABC News, Gov. Alexander Drozdenko of the Leningrad region said over the weekend that two transformer substations were hit in Yanino, leaving about 20,000 people without power. The attacks are also an indication that Ukraine has no interest in the “energy ceasefire” that President Donald…

For two decades, Tehran’s line on the bomb never changed. It does now. The New York Times reported Tuesday that a growing chorus of Iranian officials, lawmakers, and clerics is openly calling for the Islamic Republic to build nuclear weapons. A few years ago, that sentence would have been unthinkable. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Hunter Kaloci, 393rd Bomber Generation Squadron crew chief, adjusts a wheel chock in front of a parked B-2 Spirit aircraft at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire, Sept. 20, 2025. The 393rd BGS provides worldwide combat capability by planning and conducting all aspects of on-aircraft maintenance, launch and recovery of B-2 aircraft in direct support of Joint Chiefs of Staff nuclear and conventional taskings. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Hastings) FILE PHOTO — The B-2 Spirit is a multi-role bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. A dramatic leap forward in technology, the bomber represents a major milestone in the U.S. bomber modernization program. The B-2 brings massive firepower to bear, in a short time, anywhere on the globe through previously impenetrable defenses. (U.S. Air Force photo) Friday prayer leaders are preaching it. Rally crowds are chanting it. Sitting…

An Army Black Hawk was nearly struck by fireworks during an NFL game flyover earlier this week. Officials said Wednesday that the crew and helicopter are fine. “We can confirm that no fireworks struck the aircraft, no aircraft were damaged, and no members of the aircrew were injured,” Maj. Montrell Russell, an Army spokesperson, told Task & Purpose. Videos of the Nov. 2 pregame flyover in Seattle, Washington, went viral on social media. In one video posted to the Aviation subreddit, four Army Black Hawks are seen flying over Lumen Field with the fourth helicopter narrowly avoiding fireworks shot from below. The flight included four Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters from the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. An official from the base did not immediately respond to inquiries about whether there was a local investigation or any actions taken by the command in response to the incident. Stadium Pyrotechnics narrowly miss US army black hawk helicopter during NFL fly by byu/OfF3nSiV3 inaviation Simple Flying, an aviation magazine, noted that the seeming lack of coordination could’ve posed serious dangers if the helicopter was hit. They pointed to a deadly 1982 helicopter crash on…

Iran is talking tough again. That’s nothing new. On Tuesday, as Americans headed to the polls, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that any American “miscalculation” would be met with an unpredictable military response not bound by geography. Fox News paired that warning with President Trump’s own statement, delivered on “Fox & Friends” the same morning. An F-22 Raptor from Langely Air Force Base, V.a. flies by after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker from McConnell Air Force Base, Kans., July 27, 2016 during exercise Red Flag, hosted by Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Red Flag 16-3 is aimed at teaching service members how to integrate air, space and cyberspace elements. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri) Capt. Kristin “Beo” Wolfe, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot and commander, banks hard left making vapor trails over and behind the wings during a practice demonstration at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Mar. 23, 2021. The demonstration team is part of Air Combat Command and is assigned to the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB. Capt. Wolfe grew up a military child as the daughter of retired Col. Jon Wolfe and has flown the T-6 Texan II, T-38 Talon, F-22…