The Army is weighing several changes to its uniform regulations, ranging from moving ranks to the collar for soldiers wearing everyday camouflage uniforms to possibly wearing baseball caps, and making them responsible for maintaining a high shine on their dress shoes.
Following a post on the popular Army subreddit that detailed possible changes to Army Regulation 670-1, the service confirmed that it “consistently reviews policy for improvement of standards with uniforms, grooming, and appearance.”
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Ukrainian drone attacks forced a major Russian oil refinery to suspend operations, according to industry sources.

The Ryazan oil refinery, located approximately 120 miles southwest of Moscow, was struck on Sunday, 6th September, by Ukrainian forces.

Shahed Drone from Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The closure marks the latest disruption to Russia’s energy infrastructure as part of an ongoing campaign by Ukraine.

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Ukraine struck targets across Russia on Sunday, including the oil refinery in Ryazan.

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Donald Trump has conceded that the Iran war is unlikely to be over until after the November midterms.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, 9th September, en route to the Republican National Convention in Dallas, TX, the President said he believed the war would end “immediately after” the elections on Tuesday, 3rd November.

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Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) said this week that it has struck a pair of Russian gas plants in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets region, in what represents the longest-range strike by Ukraine since the start of the war.

Fox News described it as a strike at Russia’s “Arctic gas heartland.”

HIMARS platform liked used by Ukraine against Russian forces. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

According to the Kyiv Post, the drone strikes went more than 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) into Russia.

The Houthis’ war with Saudi Arabia, which appeared to end with a truce in 2022, looks like it’s back on, with the Iran-allied militia recently launching a big attack on Saudi oil infrastructure.

And now, the Houthis have captured a major piece of territory in Yemen.

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Ukraine struck eight infrastructure targets across Russia in sweeping attacks on Wednesday, 9th September.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the drone assaults targeted locations across Russia, ranging from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea.

Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.

In the process, Ukraine set a wartime record for the deepest strike inside its neighboring aggressor.

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The Yak-130M light fighter attracted significant interest from African and Asian countries at the El Alamein International Airshow 2026 in Egypt, according to PJSC Yakovlev test pilot Alexander Guskov. “Here at the exhibition [in Egypt], the African continent is showing a great deal of interest. Asia is also very interested in it,” he stated. He added that the main focus of the aircraft’s modernisation was on improving its combat capabilities. The Yak-130 serves as both a lightweight fighter and as an advanced trainer, and is considered a direct competitor to the U.S.

The changes were chaotic at first. They were even terrifying for many. Then, they became more and more gradual. As time went on, many Americans went about their lives, barely registering the idea that the fabric of our society had taken a very deep, often dark turn.

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When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, millions of Americans instinctively thought it was a horrible accident. Then the second plane struck, and we realized grave coincidences are for the naïve.
Al-Qaida’s attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, at the Pentagon, and on United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania initiated two decades of conflict. We fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and, when al-Qaida’s genie escaped the bottle, on the Arabian Peninsula, in Africa, and globally.
Whether those wars achieved durable political objectives is, at best, debatable.

Aerial refueling tankers are the backbone of U.S. airpower, but the tanker fleet is falling apart. Most of the jets are KC-135s, which are over 60 years old, and the jet that’s supposed to replace them, the KC-46, is plagued by development issues and is already running low on spare parts.
With no let-up in operational tempo, it’s becoming more difficult for the Air Force to maintain its tanker fleet. That’s the main takeaway from a Government Accountability Office report published earlier this year.

The US Department of State has cleared a possible $140m Foreign Military Sale of four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina.

Air Force Maj. Kenneth Cordier, an experienced military aviator, knew something was wrong almost immediately. His F-4C Phantom II began thumping, and Cordier soon realized he couldn’t control the aircraft.
The North Vietnamese launched a surface-to-air missile that struck Cordier’s jet in early December 1966. The impact occurred when the F-4C Phantom II was about 24,000 feet above the ground and flying at a speed of 575 mph.
Cordier, who was on his 176th combat mission, informed his co-pilot, Mike Lane, that they had to eject.

The Chunmoo MLRS has been developed by Hanwha Aerospace and in currently in service with South Korea and international militaries.

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On the first night of the evacuation of Kabul, Aug. 15, 2021, a young mother found me in the crowd at Hamid Karzai International Airport. She had marked me, correctly, as someone who spoke her language. By the end of the night, she was pressing the body of her dead child into my chest and telling me, “You did this.” I have spent five years with that sentence.In a way, she was wrong about me. I had done nothing to her son.

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The sixth generation fighter under development by China’s Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has continued to make progress in flight testing, with growing quantities of footage showing the aircraft operating at both low and high altitudes. The fighter is broadly comparable in its dimensions to the country’s most capable fifth generation fighter type, the J-20, while a second sixth generation fighter type under development by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation has much larger dimensions and appears intended for operations across much longer ranges.

President Donald Trump says oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz at almost prewar levels. The reality is rather more complicated.

Only seven commodity vessels passed through Hormuz on Wednesday, September 9, according to preliminary ship-tracking data reported by Reuters on Thursday.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Colby Delia, 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron crew chief, and Airman 1st Class Olivia Ward, 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron crew chief, prepare for a B-1B Lancer to take off for a mission at Misawa Air Base, May 9, 2025.

Iran claims to have replenished enough missiles to carry out a prolonged war with the United States. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly claims the conflict will end after this November’s midterm elections.

One top Iranian official, who wished to remain anonymous, told Bloomberg Iran did not plan to back down as a result of the U.S. naval blockade or U.S. attacks on Tehran’s tankers.

Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Last month, in an Axios story, sources in the Trump administration told the story of a clandestine effort to move shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran claiming it had closed it.

After that secret operation, the story said the U.S. could transport 10 million barrels of oil a day through the Strait, about half of pre-war levels.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Taylor “FEMA” Hiester, F-16 Viper Demonstration Team commander and pilot, performs aerial maneuvers in an F-16C Fighting Falcon during an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., March 15, 2025.

Ukraine just carried out the deepest confirmed strike inside Russian territory since the beginning of the war, having sent long-range drones more than 1,800 miles into Russian territory to strike two major gas processing facilities located in western Siberia.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said that the operation, conducted on September 9, targeted facilities at Novy Urengoy and sites in the Purovsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — the central hub of Russia’s massive gas industry.

HIMARS Attack. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Defense Innovation Unit will soon sponsor approved startups and non-traditional companies with certain temporary security clearances so they can participate in classified conversations to fully grasp the U.S. military’s real demands, ahead of winning major Pentagon contracts.
Senior defense officials on Thursday previewed a unique contracting solicitation that’s in the pipeline for release in the next few weeks and will prototype a process to grant venture-backed and other small businesses with fast-tracked Facility Security Clearances (FCL) held under DIU’s new Bridge Program.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday, September 9, to escalate the Iran war further by attacking the Pickaxe Mountain complex — an Iranian nuclear site buried deep underground and currently beyond the reach of known U.S. military technology.

New reports suggest the Pentagon is investigating classified ways of destroying the underground facilities.

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The top general in charge of securing and defending the Pentagon’s cyber infrastructure said Thursday that decades of delayed maintenance has left DOD networks increasingly vulnerable in the AI age, adding to the drumbeat of warnings across the field about agent-instigated hacks.
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When U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began in February and prompted Iran to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, some of the world’s leading energy analysts warned that oil prices could reach $200 per barrel.

On March 31, Fereidun Fesharaki, chairman emeritus of energy consultancy group FGE NexantECA, told Bloomberg Television that oil prices could surge to between $150 and $200 per barrel if the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz persisted for as long as eight weeks.

China’s Xi Jinping. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

A new handbook gives troops pointers on how to scan the sky for drones, how to estimate the length of a football field, and reminders that innocuous things like the shine of their glasses or left-behind MRE garbage can give their position away.
Published Tuesday by the Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force – 401, the 2026 Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Quick Reference Guide includes drone tactics, techniques and procedures and a catalogue of drones and counter-UAS technologies currently in the U.S. inventory, including lasers, jammers, and interceptors.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to make a deal to end the conflict in Ukraine.

Trump said on Wednesday, 9th September, that he had a “great” telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart earlier in the week, discussing the possibility of an end to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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However, questions remain about the likelihood of an agreement between the two warring nations after four and a half years of conflict.

The UK Government appears to have decided that live-fire exercises for the British Army’s premier tank regiment is not a leading priority.

U.S. President Donald Trump this week said that he believes the war with Iran will end in the coming months, but not before the November midterm elections.

The president, based on recent events and statements by officials in Tehran, suggested that the Islamic regime is looking to inflict as much pain as possible to weaken Washington’s negotiating position and lose the Republicans the midterm elections.

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base takes off from Oscoda, Michigan, Aug. 5, 2025.

This year’s U.N. General Assembly officially opened on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The annual gathering gives diplomats and leaders a valuable opportunity to press their foreign policy priorities and engage — formally and informally — with both partners and adversaries. Most heads of state will arrive later this month for the General Debate that begins on Sept. 22. The General Assembly will wrap up on Sept. 28.U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior officials have strongly criticized the United Nations, withdrawn from multiple U.N. organizations, and reduced funding.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) transits the Persian Gulf. Photo: U.S. Navy / Public Domain
Iran deployed a new type of anti-ship missile fitted with an electro-optical seeker to attack US warships for the first time last night, in a major escalation by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in its warfare against US forces operating in the vicinity of the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Flying across the world with modern GPS is not much harder than using a navigation app in your car, which is why most military planners expect the global satellite system to be knocked out early in any major future conflict.
To prepare for a no-GPS sky, a Pentagon test flight last month over Alaska made a major leap toward how the U.S. military plans to fly to and from targets without the satellite system, overseen by the Pentagon’s newest technology unit.

The Underground Warfare Defining Eastern Ukraine’s Battlefields – Eight Ukrainian soldiers sent into a trench near Pokrovsk were out of action within 24 hours. The next four lasted less than 10 minutes.

A few hundred yards away, six men hidden in two fighting holes held out for 10 days.

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French volunteer Édouard Maurin, who served with a Ukrainian special-purpose battalion in 2024 and 2025, described the two positions this week in the War on the Rocks.

Following a commitment by the Army to transition to the Joint Laser Weapon System program within the next two years, the Pentagon’s critical technology chief is putting the pressure on other services to do the same. 
The Defense Department awarded two contracts for the JLWS program to nLIGHT Defense, a high-powered laser company based in Colorado, and Lockheed Martin for an initial value of $86 million with a ceiling of $847 million.

The worst terrorist attack in U.S. history turned more than a few ordinary Americans into heroes. Their stories of heroism on 9/11 are an inspiration to us all, one that will long outlive the perpetrators of the attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on September 11, 2001, after al-Qaida hijackers flew airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York. More than 6,000 were injured.
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Tens of thousands of people typically worked in the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, and most escaped.

AeroVironment has received the first international purchase order for its LOCUST laser weapon system, designed to counter smaller drones.

Northrop Grumman has teamed up with SandboxAQ to demonstrate quantum sensing magnetic navigation on its Lumberjack UAS.