President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has revived a familiar anxiety across Europe and Taiwan: How reliable is the United States when its partners’ core interests are at stake? Trump’s governing style is marked by transactional diplomacy, hostility toward multilateral institutions, tariff-driven economic statecraft, and a willingness to publicly berate allies. Taken individually, none of these features is unprecedented. Together, they create a narrative environment that China is learning how to exploit.
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Prediction markets have proven remarkably effective at aggregating dispersed information across many domains. From technology product launches to election forecasting, they often outperform expert predictions. But when applied to military operations, these same mechanisms create categorically different risks. Now Ukrainian volunteers, Russian military bloggers, and American security clearance holders alike can convert insider knowledge of military operations into profit through pseudonymous crypto wallets.At 2 a.m. local time on Jan. 3, 2026, explosions echoed across Caracas.
The U.S. Navy Nimitz class supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its Carrier Strike Group on January 20 completed a transit through the Malacca Strait, after prematurely concluding operations in the 7th Fleet area of operations, particularly in the South China Sea, to redirect towards the 5th Fleet area in the Middle East. The redirection of the carrier group represents part of a much broader U.S.
US-based Gentex has introduced its re-designed Ops-Core FAST XP Helmet System, a ballistic helmet developed for law enforcement personnel.
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The U.S. Air Force has redeployeda large number of F-15E Strike Eagle fighters supported by KC-135 aerial refuelling tankers from RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, where they are permanently forward deployed, to bases in the Middle East, according to online flight tracking data. This represents part of a broader military buildup that appears to remain underway to target the country. A U.S.
The Indian Armed Forces have begun to receive Belarusian Berkut-BM single use attack drones, after these kinds of aircraft played a central role in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War and demonstrated their considerable value. The Berkut-BM is a jet-powered aircraft developed by the firm Indela, and reportedly uses a Chinese-made micro turbojet engine produced by Swiwin.
In Dnepropetrovsk, a woman lies unconscious by the minibus of bounty hunters, and the rest of the people, apparently, received a jet from a pepper spray in their face. A military-aged man was snatched off the street.
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Sailors aboard the USS Indiana took a group photo celebrating an improbable and dramatic championship win Monday night by their namesake state’s top college football team, the Indiana University Hoosiers. The photo was posted to a Facebook page run by the ship’s commissioning committee, a civilian nonprofit that raises funds to support the Indiana’s crew.
The Hoosiers football team beat the University of Miami Hurricanes, 27-21, in the national championship game.
President Donald Trump nominated a Marine general who helped usher the Corps through two clean financial audits — the first and only time any military branch has done so — to head the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Lt. Gen. James Adams III was nominated as director of the DIA last week, according to a notification to Congress which did not list the position he would be assigned to. The Pentagon released Adams’ nomination information on Tuesday amid a slew of general officer assignments.