The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ground Forces have employed PCL-191 rocket artillery systems to participate in the Justice Mission 2025 large-scale joint military drills around Taiwan Island, with the assets demonstrating their ability to play a central role in possible conflicts in the Taiwan Strait. The system has pioneered unprecedented ranges for a rocket artillery asset, allowing it to launch low cost high precision bombardments against targets hundreds of kilometres away.
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The Russian Su-35 air superiority fighter program was conceptualised in the late 2000s both to serve as a stopgap for the Russian Armed Forces until the Su-57 fifth generation fighter could be brought into service, and to provide a more advanced and higher level capability to export clients following the successes of the Su-27 and Su-30 on foreign markets.
Kirsten Davies has been formally sworn in as chief information officer at the Defense Department where she’ll oversee a “broad portfolio” of important programs, the Pentagon announced.
Davies took the reins shortly before the Christmas holiday, according to officials, less than a week after she was confirmed by the Senate.
The United States “hit” a dock facility on the Venezuelan coast last week, President Donald Trump said today. It is the apparent first American attack on Venezuelan soil since the United States began building up forces in the Caribbean this fall.
Speaking to reporters in Florida on Monday, Trump confirmed the U.S. had carried out a strike on Venezuelan land on Dec. 24, taking out the “implementation area” where drugs are allegedly being loaded onto boats.
“But there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said.
For a veteran who has spent years passing through checkpoints and accessing secure federal zones with a simple flash of a uniformed services ID, the card feels like the ultimate proof of standing. It is a document issued by the Department of Defense (War), a credential that functions as a universal “welcome, sir/ma’am” in most interactions with the federal government.
But as the 2026 election cycle approaches, that piece of plastic is increasingly running into state-level requirements it was never designed to satisfy.
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Mark Hertling, The Bulwark No one should be surprised.
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