Veritas Vincit is a bold and thoughtful collection of reflections from Lieutenant Colonel Darin L. Gaub, USA (Ret.), drawing from nearly three decades of military service, spiritual conviction, and firsthand experience in both war zones and cultural crossroads. This book is not a typical memoir, it’s a wide-ranging and deeply personal compilation of essays, faith-based insights, and hard-earned leadership lessons written for those who care about liberty, purpose, and the future of America.
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On June 11-12, 2025, Georgetown University will host its second annual Military Thriving Change Forum. Nearly 150 senior leaders from across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors will convene in our nation’s capital to create actionable community-based solutions that empower Veterans to lead, thrive, and inspire the next generation to serve.
Dr. Joel Kupersmith, a Navy Veteran and Emeritus Professor at Georgetown University said, “Our goal is clear.
Despite progress made in integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into the Air Force’s operations, bureaucratic roadblocks are still preventing the service from fully harnessing the technology, according to the organization’s top officer.
“Right now, [AI adoption] is a mixed bag. I think it’s not for lack of effort, but I think there are some institutional pieces there,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said Monday at the AI+ Expo hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project.
Air Mobility Command is set to deploy a commercial AI platform that supplies a “street-level threat intelligence view” and is custom-designed to help military officials better assess real-time risks — like small drones — anywhere forces deploy, two sources familiar with the work told DefenseScoop.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s innovation hub, AFWERX, recently awarded Washington, D.C.
…the spider has a nasty bark…
Commander Salamander Substack
The above picture from 2012 of Norfolk is what I want you to think about.
We talked about the superbly executed Ukrainian attack on Russian bomber bases for most of yesterday’s Midrats, and what keeps coming to mind for me is not the details of that attack, but the stark warning it is giving us.
The threat of drone strikes isn’t a new warning, but in my mind it intersect almost perfectly with the self-inflicted vulnerability of the US Navy’s fleet—its concentration.
When medics with the 173rd Airborne Brigade called for blood supplies to treat combat wounds in a major exercise last month, the flying machines slashed life-saving minutes in transport time and used fewer troops to do it.
“The difference is someone dying and someone not, because four minutes is substantially faster than 20 or 30,” said 1st Sgt. Cyril Clayton, a senior medic with the 173rd Brigade. “As far as risk to the force goes, we’ve cut it from probably five to two.
The UK’s new Strategic Defence Review marks a
The Navy’s top civilian leader said he’s looking forward to further cuts to IT contracts and other programs identified by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency as fit for the chopping block.
Speaking Monday at the AI+Expo hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, Navy Secretary John Phelan told attendees that his organization has welcomed the DOGE team at the Pentagon.
The U.S. Army’s 1st Information Operations Command is no more. The active-duty unit shut down in May, after 23 years of operations, citing changing needs in the wider force.
The initial closure was announced last year, as part of the Army Force Structure Transformation plan. 1st Information Operations Command, a part of U.S. Army Cyber Command, focused on cyber warfare and psychological operations. In practice, it worked to help protect other units from information attacks from enemy forces, and served as “red teams” in cyber attack simulations.
All three services of the UK’s Armed Forc