You can spot it from across any airport, slung over one shoulder, listing the person carrying it about fifteen degrees off vertical. The military duffel is not elegant. It is a fabric tube with a strap, a cylinder of canvas or nylon that holds everything a service member owns and surrenders none of it without a fight.
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Whatever you need is at the bottom. It is always at the bottom. That is how the fundamental physics of the thing—a law as old as the bag itself—works.
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The Thales–Leonardo Consortium will upply Nato with six deployable headquarters for the Allied Special Operations Forces Command (SOFCOM).
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired missiles at two commercial tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz for using the Omani side of the Strait on Tuesday.
The vessels struck included a Qatari-owned LNG tanker and a Saudi-flagged crude oil tanker.
Donald Trump Pointing in Speech. Image Credit: White House.
President Donald Trump attends an event celebrating the 2025 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Champion Florida Gators, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in the East Room of the White House.
A Polish defense official said the U.S. military will resume rotating troops into Poland in the “coming weeks,” two months after the Pentagon abruptly canceled an Army deployment of nearly 4,000 soldiers to the country. U.S. officials did not directly address on Monday whether a large-scale rotation was in the works, but noted that some number of U.S. troops have remained in Poland throughout the summer.
“The rotation of U.S. troops, which was suspended several weeks ago, is resuming and will continue, and in the coming weeks, the rotation of U.S.
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With growing power in the air, Ukrainian forces have launched an astounding number of drone and missile strikes against Russia, landing hits where it would hurt the Russian war machine the most, in the long term: on oil and gas infrastructure throughout the country. It is part of what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called his country’s “long-range sanctions regime” and part of a broader effort to hit the Kremlin’s coffers.
Axon Vision has announced the integration of its EDGE ClearSky AI-powered computer vision system with radar technology from Retia and the TSG command and control (C2) system in the Czech Republic.
Ukraine struck one of Russia’s main oil facilities in what is shaping up to be another blow against Russia’s ability to refine and transport its major source of state revenue.
Posting to X, formerly Twitter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the strikes. “Last night, our Ukrainian long-range sanctions against Russia over this war reached targets near St. Petersburg,” the president wrote.
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Saronic on July 2, 2026 announced the launch of its first Mirage, a 52-ft. (16-meter) dual-use Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) that joins the 24-ft. (7-meter) Corsair and 180-ft….
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Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall have agreed to pursue co-production of the U.S.