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U.S. Military Leaders Warn Iran War Is Unsustainable: Even as US President Donald J. Trump ordered new strikes on Iran just a few hours ago, important questions are being raised as to how much longer the Pentagon can carry on the fight.

Senior U.S. military commanders, according to new reports, are warning that the war against Iran is becoming impossible to sustain, with ships and weapons being pulled from other parts of the world just to maintain the massive American military presence in the Middle East necessary to keep the situation from simply getting worse.

Elements of the 82nd Airborne Division currently deployed to the Middle East will remain in the region into next year due to “operational requirements,” the Army announced.
The extended deployment was announced by division commander Maj. Gen. Brandon R. Tegtmeier in a letter to military families, thanking them for their support of the deployed troops. Task & Purpose reviewed the letter, dated Aug. 30 and shared to social media including the Army’s unofficial subreddit. The Army confirmed the authenticity of the letter.

The Air Force’s Global Strike Command ordered airmen to stop using a communications test kit at one of its intercontinental ballistic missile bases after a review found potential residue of a carcinogenic chemical in it. 
On Friday, Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s ICMBs and nuclear bombers, said that it directed units to stop using AN/PRM-10 test oscillator set after polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs were potentially found in it. The 20th Air Force, which operates F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, is “immediately” stopping use of the tests.

The acting Secretary of the Navy ordered the Marine Corps to help a military spouse get her and her family back to the United States, after she took to social media to express concern that she and her kids might be stuck in Germany as she and her husband divorce.
The military spouse, identified by Task & Purpose’s sister publication We Are the Mighty as Jamie Lenio, said that she was worried she would be stuck in Germany if her divorce and custody proceedings happen while still in Germany. She identified her husband as an active-duty Marine who wishes to remain in Germany as a contractor.

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The Algerian Air Force has made a landmark deployment of fighter aircraft to neighbouring Niger following a failed military coup in the capital, Niamey, marking a significant expansion of Algiers’ direct military involvement in Central African security affairs. The deployment came after Nigerien forces, with assistance from Russia’s Africa Corps, regained control of key military and government facilities targeted by rogue elements of the armed forces.

Big empires need big emperors; and sadly they can’t all be Marcus Aurelius. There’s an old story about Caligula, the Roman emperor between 37 and 41 AD, and its one of the crazier stories about him. It’s sometimes described as a “war against Neptune,” the Roman god of the sea.
But how to you attack the sea god? If you asked Caligula, you attack the sea head on.
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The story goes that Caligula had his men line up and do just that one day, an attack complete with infantry stabbing the ocean.

For those of us who spent decades inside the Special Forces operational community, studying the anatomy of conflict across rugged mountains, isolated valleys, and dense urban sprawl, one foundational rule of unconventional warfare stands absolute. Advanced hardware and precision fires cannot compensate for the absence of an organized, trained, and pre-positioned human resistance.

Putin Is Running Out of Soldiers for the Ukraine War – As Russia grapples with ongoing Ukrainian long-range strikes and diminishing returns on the front lines, its massive military recruitment machine appears to be grinding to a halt. This week, reports described how Russian President Vladimir Putin is struggling to replace soldiers being lost in the war, with Western officials now estimating that his army is losing roughly 6,000 more troops per month than it can recruit. And that’s despite Moscow continuing to bring around 1,000 new personnel into the military every day.

Oil Is Just About Escaping Hormuz – But LNG Isn’t – The United States and its Gulf allies are being forced to find creative new ways to get oil out of the Persian Gulf, but despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that the Strait of Hormuz is open, shipping remains far below pre-war levels. The series of emergency measures that are keeping crude moving out of the region are extraordinarily expensive, and Iran retains the ability to disrupt traffic again — meaning any victory we see today could end tomorrow.

But for liquefied natural gas, the problem is even more acute.