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Summary and Key Points: In the 1970s, under CNO Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the Navy studied the CVV — a smaller, conventionally powered carrier meant as a cheaper alternative to the nuclear supercarrier.

Pitched as a “minimum-cost” ship at $550 million, its price ballooned to $1.5 billion, and the design was compromised: only 52–60 aircraft versus a Nimitz’s 90, half the catapults and elevators, fuel for barely a day. Analysts found two CVVs would cost more than one Nimitz — so America kept building supercarriers.

USS Gerald R.

Summary and Key Points: The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed around radar — a night fighter that could find enemy planes five miles away in total darkness. Armed with four 20mm cannons and four .50-caliber machine guns, it hunted Japanese and German raiders across every theater of World War II. One Black Widow, “Lady in the Dark,” was credited with the last Allied air victory of the war — and the radar it pioneered became standard on every fighter since.

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On Friday, U.S. military forces carried out another strike on a boat accused of trafficking drugs by sea, killing three people and pushing the death toll in these strikes to 202. 
The strike took place in an unspecified part of the eastern Pacific Ocean, and it’s unclear what military asset took out the boat. Video shared by U.S. Southern Command, which announced the strike, shows a small boat exploding in a fireball. It was the 61st strike on a small vessel in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific since Sept. 2. A day later on May 30, U.S.

Summary and Key Points: The invasion of Ukraine is uniquely Putin’s project — conceived, ordered, and justified by one man — raising a serious question: does the war end when he does?

-The 73-year-old has named no heir, and Russia has no reliable succession plan.

Putin in 2022. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-The likeliest contenders, like hawkish ex-FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, share Putin’s worldview and might continue the war.

-Yet a successor free of Putin’s personal stake could instead end it and blame the costs on him — making his exit the war’s biggest wildcard.

The number of homeless veterans decreased by only 387 people over the course of 2024, a smaller decrease than the change for the overall number of unhoused Americans, according to the newly released national homeless count.
On Friday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released its findings from the 2025 point-in-time national homeless count. It found that overall homelessness in the United States dropped by 3%, with 745,652 people unhoused on a single night. However, veteran homelessness declined by just 1% between January 2024-January 2025, from 32,882 to 32,495.

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Parenting already feels like organized chaos. Now add two military careers, four kids, competing duty schedules, and you’ve got the reality of a dual-military household.
But for one Army couple—a human resources officer entering her 13th year of service and a medical service officer in his 14th year—the chaos has somehow become a system. Not a perfect one. Not always a smooth one. But one built on communication, sacrifice, adaptability, and a whole lot of teamwork.
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Summary and Key Points: On May 29, 2026, a Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania, wounding two — the first time Russian weapons have caused casualties inside a NATO member state.

-It’s a warning, not a one-off: Russian incursions into NATO airspace tripled in 2025.

B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Flying. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-The danger is structural — under NATO’s Article 5, one mass-casualty strike could pull 32 nations toward war with a nuclear-armed Russia that has openly lowered its nuclear threshold.

Summary and Key Points: Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine was centered on armored columns racing toward Kyiv. Instead, Russian tanks became the war’s most destroyed weapon.

-Cheap FPV drones now routinely throw their turrets into the air — the “jack-in-the-box” effect — and the losses are staggering: Oryx confirms over 4,000 destroyed or captured, while Ukraine claims more than 10,000.

T-80 Tank from Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Unable to build enough new tanks, Russia has resorted to pulling 70-year-old T-54s and T-55s from storage.