Ian Ward, Politico
A few years earlier, this assignment would have thrilled Hamel, a bookish teenager from southwestern Ohio who had enlisted in the Marines with dreams of “heading to the…
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On January 3, 1943, a miracle occurred over the skies of France. While on a daylight bombing mission over occupied Saint Nazaire, a B-17F named “Snap! Crackle! Pop!” with the 360th squadron of the 303rd bomb group, tossed its ball turret gunner out of the plane without a parachute. Amazingly, his story doesn’t end there.
For anyone else it might have ended there, but not for Alan Magee (U.S. Army)
Saint Nazaire was home to a strategic U-boat base and dry dock, which were partially destroyed during Operation Chariot almost a year earlier.
The British Army will acquire more than 600 Boxer mechanised infantry vehicles, deliverable across a range of variants.
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“The Nevsky Battalion is accepting volunteers.” This recruitment ad appeared on Russian social media in summer 2025 and is hardly a one-off. Swap out “Nevsky” for “Wolves,” “Saint George,” or any of three dozen similar formations and a pattern emerges: Russia is leaning ever harder on irregular forces to sustain its war on Ukraine.Moscow’s use of irregular units has transformed its military into a hybrid war machine.
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The Israeli Defence Ministry has approved a $1.5 billion program to expand the production of Merkava main battle tanks and Namer and Eitan armoured personnel carriers (APCs) over the next five years. This investment was decided on following close to two years of combat with Palestinian paramilitary groups in the Gaza Strip, and after months of intense clashes with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which have resulted in significant armour losses.
The Belarusian government is considering options to integrate nuclear warheads onto its army’s Polonez long range rocket artillery systems, according to one of the country’s most senior security officials State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Alexander Volfovich. “Today this is a modern complex. The range of the missiles was 200 kilometres, today these are missiles (with a range) of 300 kilometres. This is high-precision weaponry. Of course, any weapon requires adjustments and changes.
President Trump is committed to securing our prescription drug supply chain, threatening tariffs of up to 250% to force manufacturing back to the U.S.
At the same time, President Trump is ordering his Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin to stockpile critical drugs to protect against potential drug shortages and drug price increases:
“President Trump on Wednesday ordered his health officials to secure a six-month supply of advanced pharmaceutical ingredients for drugs the administration determines are critical for national health and security.
U.S. troops killed a suspected senior member of the Islamic State group, or ISIS, during an Aug. 19 raid in northern Syria, defense officials have announced.
U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, confirmed the operation on Thursday after media outlets reported about the raid earlier in the week.
CENTCOM did not name the suspected ISIS official, who was described as “key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq.