Since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, a key question constantly asked is how Beijing might react — assuming that China’s economy relies on oil imported from Iran and shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.In reality, however, China is 85 percent energy self-sufficient. While China imports more than 10 percent of its global oil total from Iran, its energy supply has long been diversified internationally and electrified domestically to avoid critical dependence on any single source. Beijing has built a cushion against a short-term supply shock from a war in the Middle East.
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When Pakistan declared “open war” with Afghanistan in February 2026 and struck Taliban military installations in Kabul and Kandahar, it crossed a threshold: from targeting non-state militants to putting Taliban-governed Afghanistan’s assets on the table. This escalation was not impulsive. Months of indirect cost imposition through border closures, trade restrictions, and limited strikes on Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan camps failed to shift Taliban behavior, making direct military pressure a logical next step in Pakistan’s hybrid coercion strategy.
L Todd Wood talks with former Army Guard officer Mark Castillon on the push for accountability in DOW.
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The Republic of China Air Force has moved ahead with plans to significantly modernise the capabilities of its F-CK Ching-kuo lightweight fighters under the Falcon Project, with one the fighters having recently been seen a carrying a Sky Sword II radar guided air-to-air missile for high-altitude testing. The Sky Sword II is expected to serve as the primary air-to-air armament of the F-CK, and has broadly analogous capabilities to the U.S. AIM-120C-5, although it is considerably faster and is reportedly much more costly due to its far smaller production scale.
WTOC TV news in Savannah, GA spoke with an army veteran and his initiative to support single mothers raising sons.
“Charlton Jefferson believes the youth are a community’s greatest asset, and he’s putting that philosophy into practice through Entire Mentoring, a program designed to fill a critical gap in households headed by single mothers,” reported WTOC.
“Jefferson’s commitment to supporting single mothers stems partly from his own childhood,” continues the report.
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Earlier this month, an aircraft was approaching the Albuquerque airport, miles and miles and miles away from where a group of government officials had gotten together to test a secretive military laser in the New Mexico desert.
The high-energy laser was locked on to a simulated threat at White Sands Missile Range during what officials described as a “first of its kind” evaluation, “holding track” on its target when — unclear to testers in the moment — the system suddenly shut down.
Summary and Key Points: Defense analyst Jack Buckby evaluates the ongoing aircraft carrier obsolescence debate through the lens of Operation Epic Fury in 2026. Some argue the carrier is nothing more than old ‘battleship’ in today’s world of missiles and cheap drones.
-While the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln have established air dominance over Iran, Buckby asserts that neutralizing a regional power with an “obliterated” navy does not simulate the high-threat A2/AD environment of the Indo-Pacific.
Aircraft Carrier in the Sunset. Image Credit: U.S. Navy.
Approximately 40 government, academic, and independent researchers met at a private workshop last year to standardize processes for capturing, sharing and studying narrative data on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), which is the modern term for UFOs that accounts for maritime and transmedium objects.
The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) set up and sponsored the invite-only event. It was officially hosted by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) in the Washington, D.C. area in early August.
The 2025 workshop marked a notable step in the U.S.
The USS Nimitz began its long career stuck in a time warp. It now seems to be finishing the same way, with its official retirement date pushing into the future.
Just five years into its service in 1980, the ship was the setting and in some ways the star of “The Final Countdown,” a sci-fi time travel film in which the ship and its air wing are transported back to Dec 6, 1941. The next day, of course, would be the attack on Pearl Harbor.