When the American colonies declared themselves independent from Great Britain, the British monarchy decided it needed a little more muscle than it had on hand to put down the American Revolution. At the time, a small part of the Holy Roman Empire called Hesse-Kassel (in modern-day Germany) was lending its troops to the highest bidder.
In 1776, that bidder was England’s King George III. He hired 30,000 Hessian troops to help the redcoats subdue the unruly colonists.
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Founded on July 14, 1813, the Watervliet Arsenal was established to support the War of 1812. Located on the Hudson River near Albany, New York, the arsenal’s manufacturing capability helped repel the British invasion of the United States. Now, 210 years after its founding, Watervliet is churning out gun barrels to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion.
Watervliet is the oldest continuously operating arsenal in America (U.S. Army)
The Watervliet Arsenal is the oldest continuously active arsenal in the country.
The Battle of Wanat took place on July 13, 2008, in the Waygal Valley, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. It involved around 200 Taliban insurgents attacking a small U.S. Army outpost manned by 49 U.S. soldiers and 24 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers. Nine U.S. soldiers lost their lives. Another 27 were wounded, marking it as one of the deadliest for American forces during the war.
Background and Preparations
In the weeks leading up to the battle, U.S. forces established a temporary outpost in the village of Wanat. The base was named Combat Outpost (COP) Kahler in honor of 1st Lt.
This decision follows Canada’s move to resume talks with Turkey on export controls, signaling a change in the relationship with Turkey after its approval of Sweden’s NATO membership.
The Netherlands has lifted restrictions on the export of certain defense industry equipment to Turkey, the Dutch Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. This move comes after Canada decides to unfreeze talks with Turkey on export controls, further signaling a change in relations with Turkey after the Turkish government’s approval of Sweden’s NATO membership.
Russian MoD
A day after Russia threatened Black Sea shipping, Kyiv is now warning that all vessels in that body of water heading toward seaports in Russia or the territory it occupies “may be considered by Ukraine as carrying military goods with all the corresponding risks.”
The Ukrainian MoD also warned that “navigation in the areas of the northeastern part of the Black Sea and the Kerch-Yenikal Strait of Ukraine is prohibited as dangerous, from 5 a.m. [local time] on July 20. Relevant navigational information for mariners has already been published.
Public Domain
House Republicans voted to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs and personnel at the Pentagon, and one wonders whether the U.S. military will ever be the same.
The provision was one of a number of anti-“woke” measures in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act that have occasioned sputtering outrage.
According to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, there’s no way that President Joe Biden would ever sign such legislation “that would put our troops at greater risk or put our readiness at risk…”
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Russian military leaders are likely to start withholding the bad news about the war in Ukraine from the Russian president because they are increasingly concerned about their own security.
That’s what Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who focuses on Russia, thinks.
“In this atmosphere of suspicion and uncertainty, with leading generals disappearing and Putin quick to blame traitors, self-censorship among military high command is likely to become more prevalent,” Massicot wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times.
India is willing to modify indigenous LCA Tejas fighter jets as per Argentina’s demands. The South American country has objected to Britain’s LCA ejection seat, which Indian aviation company HAL has agreed to exchange for another foreign seat.
The Argentine Defense Minister, Jorge Enrique Taiana, is currently in India for bilateral defense cooperation and also met on Tuesday with his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh.
The Tejas de India light combat aircraft (LCA) uses the ejection seat of the British company Martin Baker, which Argentina has opposed.
Boeing Screencapture
Boeing Defense has released the first video of its Orca extra-large unmanned undersea vehicle, or XLUUV during at-sea testing. The Pentagon in 2019 ordered an initial batch of four of the 80-ton Orcas for the U.S. Navy, with a fifth added later that year. Since then, we saw the christening and launch of the test asset at Huntington Beach, California, in April last year, but we hadn’t previously seen the long-endurance craft underway in the water.
Check out our first released video of Orca XLUUV in-sea testing — with a dolphin pod cameo.
In the next iteration of its Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), the Defense Department wants to focus on improving its joint fires network capabilities in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and smooth out any data-sharing issues with its allies and partners.
Now led by the nascent Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), the GIDE projects are broadly intended to test, optimize and integrate the department’s data systems with artificial intelligence.