Author: Michael

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On September 30, 2025, the Secretary of War ordered changes to Military Fitness Standards to further his mission of restoring the warrior ethos. One of those changes is the use of the waist to height ratio (WHtR) to evaluate body composition.
This memorandum serves to provide additional guidance on implementing the WHtR beginning January I, 2026. Height and weight tables will no longer be utilized to evaluate body composition.

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In conjunction with Secretary of War Hegseth’s Arsenal of Freedom Tour which highlights innovative companies delivering product on-time and at scale, President Trump has gone after legacy defense contractors in public, criticizing their way of doing business which he says harms the capabilities of the Department of War.
POTUS signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting defense contractors from issuing dividends to shareholders or conducting stock buybacks until they deliver high quality military equipment on time and on budget, as in firm fixed-price contracts.

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Ukrainian bounty hunters which reportedly make $200 a head to grab males off the street, snatched a man from a young screaming girl, then throw her into snow drift, then drive off. She doesn’t move.
This barbaric behavior is what you are paying for.
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It’s early days, but the Trump administration’s approach to a post-President Nicolás Maduro Venezuela is quickly coming into focus. This is not externally imposed democracy building but a regime management project that relies on compliant regime insiders, the existing state security apparatus, and offshore coercive leverage. As I argued previously in these pages, removing the apex of an authoritarian pyramid does not dissolve the pyramid. What changes is who gets to set the terms for the people still holding it up.

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The latest estimates for the size of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s nuclear powered submarine fleet indicated that it has overtaken that of the Russian Navy in size, making it the second largest only to that of the United States Navy. A primary driver of this trend has been the large scale production of the Type 093B class attack submarine, of which 16 are estimated to have begun construction.

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Russian state defence conglomerate Rostec reported that the Su-35S has destroyed more targets in air-to-air combat than any other fighter type in the Russian Armed Forces. A statement by Rostec’s press office stressed that the Su-35 remains one of the most actively employed fighters in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War, highlighting that its advanced avionics including its electronic warfare and defensive suites in particular were major factors that led it to earn high praise from pilots.

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