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Author: Michael
In 2007, when former Chinese leader Hu Jintao urged China to pursue “Military-Civil Fusion with Chinese characteristics,” few in the United States paid attention, much less anticipated the dilemma that this emerging Chinese strategy would pose to U.S. policymakers. Almost two decades later, as the U.S.
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Yoga has been a part of my self-care for as long as I’ve been a military spouse. I fell in love with yoga around the same time I started dating my husband. It has been one of my constants through underways, deployments, and PCS. As well as through my motherhood journey. I want to share with you some of my favorite poses that can truly be done anywhere, whether you’re a service member on a ship, or a family member in the throes of a PCS or deployment, these are poses that can be done on a plane or train, at a gas station, in an airport or a hotel.
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On Aug. 12, 1898, the Spanish-American War ended in armistice.
The Spanish-American War started after the USS Maine suddenly exploded in Havana Harbor in February 1898, an incident that was later found to be caused by faulty ship design but was blamed, at the time, on a Spanish mine. The resulting war was focused on Cuba, but the growing American military contested Spain across its empire, resulting in combat from the Atlantic to Pacific.
The conflict officially only lasted a few months, though its origins began three years before with Cuba’s rebellion from Spain.
In the aftermath of the one-way drone attack against U.S. forces in northeastern Syria on Aug. 9, multiple personnel are being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries and a comprehensive damage assessment of American assets on the ground is underway, three officials told DefenseScoop on Monday.
“The drone struck [Rumalyn Landing Zone] at about 5 p.m. EST [on Friday], late into the evening in Syria, and caused damage to one set of facilities,” Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said during an off-camera briefing.
Command Sgt. Major Veronica E. Knapp has been relieved as the senior enlisted leader of the sprawling military task force responsible for defense and day-to-day military operations in Washington D.C. following an investigation, an Army spokesman said. Knapp made news in 2021 as the first woman named Command Sgt. Major of the 101st Airborne Division. She was in a similar role for the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region/United States Army Military District of Washington, or JTF-NCR/USAMDW.
Knapp was relieved on Aug.
BAGHDAD – The Paris games may be over, but Marine Capt. Riley Tejcek is already training for the 2026 winter Olympics, even while deployed to Iraq, one of the hottest countries in the world.
Tejcek, 27, is already the first female Marine to be part of a world championship Bobsled team. Now she has set her sights on the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team for the 2026 games in Italy. As a Marine, she is in Baghdad as a logistics officer supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led mission to defeat the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
SpaceX successfully launched a pair of satellites for Space Norway on Friday that also included two U.S. military payloads designed to enable enhanced connectivity in the Arctic region.
The Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) constellation, which includes two sats, was sent into orbit via a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The systems — built by Northrop Grumman — will operate in a highly elliptical orbit and provide comms for both commercial and military applications in the High North, according to a company press release.