Author: Michael

A career-ending spinal injury during Navy SEAL training could have closed Joe Musselman’s chapter of service. Instead, it became the catalyst for a new one. He first founded The Honor Foundation to help special operators bring their elite standards to civilian leadership, then launched BVVC, a venture fund backing relentlessly focused founders. He most recently assembled the founding team at Union, a munitions company designed to re-imagine munitions production.

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Think of U.S. Cyber Command as a Ferrari straining in second gear, unable to shift higher as rivals close the gap on the straightaway.As China and other adversaries expand the scale and speed of their cyber operations, Cyber Command is being held back by outdated acquisition models, fragmented talent pipelines, and limited ability to get needed tools and capabilities into operators’ hands quickly.

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Former chief of staff of the Ukrainian Army’s elite Azov Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Bogdan Krotevich has claimed that Ukrainain forces in the disputed Donbas regions are facing an increasingly catastrophic situation, with Russian units poised to achievetwo major encirclements. “I honestly don’t know what exactly you are being told, but I can tell you: the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka line is, without exaggeration, a complete f**k up. And this f**k up has been growing for a long time, getting messier every day,” he stated in an open letter to President Volodymyr Zelensky on August 11.

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The Navy has fired Capt. Russell A. Herrell as the commanding officer of the Naval Information Force Reserve Readiness Center in San Diego, the service announced Tuesday.
Rear Adm. Greg Emery, commander of Naval Information Force Reserve, relieved Herrell of his duties on Tuesday “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” a Navy news release says.
Navy officials did not provide a specific reason why Herrell was fired.

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PUBLISHED on August 12, 2025, 7:57 PM EDT – Key Points and Summary – As China prepares for a massive military parade to showcase its rapidly modernizing forces, a deep crisis of leadership is unfolding within the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

-While the military is fielding advanced new weapons and aims to be ready for a major war by 2027, President Xi Jinping’s aggressive anti-corruption campaign has led to a series of high-level purges.

-Three of the seven seats on the powerful Central Military Commission are now vacant.

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