Let’s jump into the foxhole and discuss the very lifeblood of military ops – intelligence gathering. It’s like a massive, multi-player game of ‘Capture the Flag,’ but with less running and more cunning. From WWII all the way to the present day, military intelligence (MI) has played a key role in every single conflict. These ops underscore that intel isn’t just a sideshow. Usually, it’s the main event, an invisible hand guiding history’s course.
But what is MI, anyway?
Intelligence gathering in the military operates like the world’s most complicated jigsaw puzzle.
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Violence between Israelis, Palestinians, and various anti-Israel organizations has been going on for years now. In recent days, the fighting between the Israel Defence Forces, Palestine, and a coalition of Arab terror groups was precipitated by an Israeli expansion of settlements in the West Bank and raids on Palestinian refugee camps and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
One of the terrorist organizations in the fray is Islamic Jihad, which was founded in 1981 in Egypt by students who wanted a free Palestinian state.
Marines fought the Battle of Belleau Wood starting on June 1, 1918. The battle continued until June 26. In that time, U.S. Marines advanced 4 kilometers against a well-entrenched and prepared German Army. Marines took the offensive and held their ground against numerically superior forces. In total, the Marines withstood eight separate counterattacks. In the end, Belleau Wood cost the Germans dearly. German forces probably lost nearly 10,000 while American forces lost around 2,000 personnel.
For the Marines, the battle of Belleau Wood was a coming-of-age moment.
More than a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the group is using all kinds of seized American and NATO weapons.
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As the Pentagon’s inspector general has discovered, material from stockpiles in Kuwait bound for Ukraine was not ready for combat operations.
During the inspector general’s audit of that pre-positioned booking area, the fifth of seven such locations worldwide, “we identified issues that led to unplanned maintenance, repairs, and long lead times to ensure readiness for the selected military equipment to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” according to the May 30 report.
German defense company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has announced that the German military’s Bundeswehr has officially placed an order for twelve new 155mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PzH 2000) self-propelled howitzers. This order follows the initial agreement reached in March 2023, which included an option for eighteen of the powerful artillery systems, divided into three lots of six.
The Bundeswehr (German Army) currently has 121 PzH 2000 howitzers, which form the backbone of the German Army’s artillery capabilities.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had destroyed what it described as Ukraine’s “last warship” two days ago in the port of Odessa in a missile attack.
The Ukrainian Navy declined to comment.
“The last warship of the Ukrainian navy, the Yuriy Olefirenko, was destroyed in a warship docking in the port of Odessa,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a daily briefing on the war.
He said the ship had been hit by “high-precision weapons” – a term he uses to refer to missiles – on May 29 but gave no further details.
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A U.K. Royal Air Force RC-135W Rivet Joint today conducted a very unusual sortie inside Moldovan airspace, while other surveillance aircraft patrolled on the Romanian side of the border. These flights are very likely connected with the European Political Community (EPC) Summit in Moldova, which involves 47 heads of state and government, which comes as the country becomes one of the latest to receive European Union candidate status.
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Spanish authorities have confirmed that missile maker Kongsberg will begin delivering its fifth-generation naval attack missiles, intended to equip the Spanish Navy’s F-100 and F-110 frigates, in 2027, three years before the withdrawal. The planned use of the fleet’s Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
“The estimated date of receipt of the first NSM (Naval Strike Missiles) will coincide with the entry into service of the first F-110 frigate,” Captain Alfonso Carrasco Santos, who works on the then-staff of Defense News, told Defense News in an email. Planning of Spanish naval capabilities.