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Following tensions over a United Nations-backed alternative route through the Strait of Hormuz, established on the Omani side of the waterway, Tehran sought to reassert its right to restrict shipping on Friday. In a statement, Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi threatened vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz with “ambiguous arrangements.”

“Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz cannot be guaranteed under ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes or decision-making that does not take Iran’s role as a coastal state into account,” Gharibabadi said.

The IRGC fired on and hit a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday near the Oman coast, according to a U.S. official. The vessel suffered damage to its bridge, but no one was injured, the  U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Center said.

Iran is trying to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and warned Gulf states against siding with the U.S., a day after an attack on the ship.

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 21, 2024) The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R.

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Warsaw, Poland – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has written a long message on his X account detailing just how successful his military’s campaign of drone and missile strikes has been in Crimea.

His security services have provided him with reports that paint an overall picture of the situation there, which is becoming more dire by the day. Russians who relocated to the peninsula after the March 2104 invasion are now beginning to return to Mainland Russia while they still can.

T-84 Tank from the Ukraine War. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Oracle has announced the inclusion of ten additional defence technology companies into the third cohort of its Oracle Defense Ecosystem at the Oracle Defence Tech Summit 2026.

Ukrainian forces launched one of their largest drone attacks on Russian territory and illegally annexed and occupied Crimea since the Russians invaded in 2022.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that they intercepted 660 unmanned aerial vehicles across the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Oryol, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Rostov, Voronezh, Tula, Ryazan, and Astrakhan regions of the Russian Federation, the Moscow region, occupied Crimea, and the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Putin with a Rifle. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

Every motor pool, every smoke pit, every chow-hall table has hosted the same argument at least once. Somebody swears the 5.56mm is a glorified BB gun that couldn’t stop a determined house mouse. Somebody else, usually an old senior NCO with a severe flat top, long-gone gray, insists that nothing ever beats the 7.62mm and that the Army has been wrong since Vietnam. Then some E-4 brings up the new 6.8mm, and the whole table groans into its coffee.

More than 600 military family members and civilians who were sickened by contaminated water following a fuel leak in Hawaii will get $17 million in a federal settlement announced this week.
In 2021, more than 20,000 gallons of jet fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, contaminated the local aquifer, which supported the drinking water for thousands of military families. Those impacted by the spill brought cases forward under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which is the law that allows people to sue the government for harm caused.

Moscow’s Ministry of Defense said on Friday that Ukraine launched a major overnight attack on a dozen regions across Russia. The strikes are once again among the largest launched throughout the entire campaign and brought Kyiv closer to its goal of isolating Crimea from the Russian mainland.

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Image Credit: Office the the President, Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that it had intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones.

Nuclear policy debates are at their best when they force hard questions about risk, deterrence, and military necessity. They are at their worst when disagreement is recast as bad faith. In 2018, as an outgrowth of a rigorous policy review process, the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review identified a need for supplemental low-yield nuclear capabilities to augment the U.S. nuclear arsenal.